Ken's review
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
by Corey Seymour, Jann S. Wenner
Ken's review
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson by Corey Seymour, Jann S. Wenner
Ken's review
rating:
A comprehensive look at the career of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson. The oral narration has everything ..from Hunter's Kentucky Derby and Rhode Island yacht racing essays to Fear and Loating in Las Vegas to his eventual demise due to drug and alchohol addiction.
As a long-time journalist, I became enamored with Thompson in the early 1980s, reading Shark Hunt and the Fear and Loathing books. I drifted away from him as I got older; the drug usage he bragged of was no longer cool and instead wasteful.
And Jann Werner indicates this in the book's last chapter. Hunter, who attempted to portray a macho Hemmingwayesque personna, became a stumbling, shambling, crying old man in the end. The stories are funny and poignant and present an unblinking look at a fixture in American writing.
As a long-time journalist, I became enamored with Thompson in the early 1980s, reading Shark Hunt and the Fear and Loathing books. I drifted away from him as I got older; the drug usage he bragged of was no longer cool and instead wasteful.
And Jann Werner indicates this in the book's last chapter. Hunter, who attempted to portray a macho Hemmingwayesque personna, became a stumbling, shambling, crying old man in the end. The stories are funny and poignant and present an unblinking look at a fixture in American writing.
