I didn't look at it close enough when purchasing it. Didn't find out until I got it home that is was just correspondence between HST and various folks. He is not as good a correspondent as he is a writer.

Once I had read the novels, I wanted more HST. His news articles are worth the read. Many of these enjoy from HST's anger and irony.

"Not many months left in this era; not even a year, as I see it, and maybe less. Maybe it's already gone."

This is the second book of letters I've read from this guy. So I've read approximately 1500 pages of personal correspondence from this dude amounting to the first 2/3 of his life before he blew his brains out. Honestly, I can't think of another writer whose personal letters would interest me as much (well, now that I think about it, possibly Robert Anton Wilson or maybe Thomas Pynchon, but there don't seem so be 1000s of pages of their letters so it's irrelevant). But anyways, I liked this. We a...

When I was in college, my friends and I read Hunter S. Thompson because he was wild, fearless, funny, and took lots and lots of drugs. The mean streak that showed, say, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas's diner-waitress scene was forgivable; we lived in mean times. The memory of Nixon was still fresh, and Nixon surrounded himself with thugs and goons like Gordon Liddy and Chuck Colson. Maybe the backbone that was needed to oppose dirty-tricksters like these required a certain insensitivity in on...

This huge tome of Hunter Thompson's correspondence took me approximately two months to read, but that doesn't mean that I didn't like it. In fact, I enjoyed it quite a bit. However, the format leant itself to being put down for extended periods of time before returning to it. There's not much of any connection or narrative flow between one letter and the next, and most of the time, the other half of Thompson's correspondence is not reproduced here, so the reader is left to guess at what exactly

Absolutely love Hunter S. Thompson. Great read.

Jesus H. Christ almighty, but I MISS this man.This is a compendium of letters written, both personal and professional correspondence, between 1968 and 1976 that shows not only the biting wit but the razor sharp intellect of this now gone author. You know how people make off-handed comments like 'a light went out' or 'we lost something important' when he died? And you think to yourself, yeah, yeah, everyone says that kind of thing when someone dies... sometimes just to be polite. Well, however ov...

This thick volume was a good look at the world of Hunter S Thompson from the time of his first real success with "Hell's Angels" to the release of his first collection "The Great Shark Hunt". The letters in this volume discuss his often rocky relationship with Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, his money troubles--he never became wealthy despite his apparent public success, his friendships with William Kennedy, Oscar Acosta, and George McGovern, among others, and (most importantly) his struggl...

Hunter S. Thompson works through his thoughts on the typewriter writing letters. There is a stream-of-consciousness feeling to the writing. Ideas falling into place, observations, opinions, an over-abundance of words, comments, confessions: everything is here. Thompson was a great observer of his time. He has more than keen insight into the world we live in and pulls no punches in the telling of how it is. There is brute strength in the writing, of someone who knows his subjects intimately, pass...

Listening to this represents a couple of firsts for me as a reader. It was the first time I have read the letters of a writer whose books I have not yet read. In addition, it marked the first time I have experienced a collection of letters in the audiobook format. That worked pretty well, since his letters make for good listening, and since the book provides a lot of insight into the life and thoughts of Thompson during the most creative period of his life. I am familiar with the legend of the n...

You sometimes get the feeling from his published works that HST lived a carefree life of hedonism and financial success.These two volumes of correspondence counter that myth and paint a picture of a man in the throes of impending poverty,furiously burning the midnight oil in an attempt to extract fees and expense accounts to fend off the bailiff, and get credit at the local store.Its a hefty book and there's a few superfluous letters in there but on the whole its all compelling stuff if you wan

Collected letters of HST from 1967 to 1976. Very funny stuff. He takes aim at the usual targets, Nixon, greed, etc etc as well as many savage and outlandish threats directed at everyone from his old "friend", the long-suffering Ralph Steadman, to the operator of the local Colorado Tv station. Hunter s. Thompson was truly a one-of-a-kind human being.

Fear and Loathing in America is Hunter S. Thompson's second collection of correspondence letters. Occasionally the letters are amusing, for example: Thompson's feud with a local CBS television affiliate over their broadcast times of Lassie. Most of the letters cover Hunter's money problems and arguments with his editors. The biggest reveal of this collection is that Hunter's public persona and his private life where one in the same. This collection is strictly for the Thompson obsessives.

This collection of letters starts in 1968 HST is living in Woody Creek, The Rum Diary has been written and Hells Angels has been published. Not only does it give an insight into who HST really was but it also lets you see his writing process and where his ideas came from. He spent the first three years of this book struggling to write a book called The Joint Chiefs about the death of the American dream and the letters to Jim Silberman from Random House document his frustration and inability to c...

You'd think one would get tired of 6 years worth of correspondence in re: asking for payment, asking for advances, demanding payments, asking for loans, bitching about money (payments and advances and expenses), and after all that, begging for editorial compass. But not here. As good as he was as a political journalist, he comes out looking even better after reading these 6 years worth of missives. Wish there were more folks like him now; we need them.

Not too impressed. Thompson wasn't a "wild a crazy guy" in his letters. Mostly he just writes about politics and $$. He's constantly badgering Rolling Stone's Editor/Publisher to pay Thompson what Rolling Stones owes him, or he's threatening to sue someone for libel. Lots of serious political letters to about Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart, etc. Many of the letters are Rambling, with a capital "R" and were no doubt written under the influence. For Thompson fans only.

In the movie words of Johnny Depp: "There he goes, one of God's own prototypes, a high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production, too weird to live but too rare to die." Yes, this could have described HST, and as he has said, "Remember that they laughed at Thomas Edison too."

A great book to examine the dichotomy between Hunter S. Thompson, a man trying to scramble in the rat race and survive like the rest of us, and Raoul Duke, the characterization of Hunter S. Thompson. It also shows his development and meta-reflection on gonzo journalism over his prime years of 1968-1976. A must for any HST fan and there are some gems of letters, especially the fragile, tense, and short relationship with his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas co-star, Oscar Zeta Acosta. Either way, yo...

Fine if you’ve read a ton of Hunter’s other works first but don’t start here.This consists of a lot of letters and personal correspondences between Hunter and close friends, family, editors, and even a clothing company while he tried to return a jacket. It’s fine if you’ve exhausted all his other works but don’t start here. For a better collection of bite sized works check out “The Great Shark Hunt”.