Cons: It's a long one, for those people who love short stories.
The Bottom Line: Great book, treachery, football, drugs, and dogs. All in this great epic, should be an extra in a textbook as to this presidential race.
hunter50's Full Review: Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing: On the Cam...
This book is a book that will pull you out of your life and make you see the hair on Nixon's nose. While I read this book my life was put on hold, I remember nothing other than what was in the book. It somehow keeps you locked into this era. Month by month of revolting people on the trail and Thompson's usual blowoff of anything he sees fit.
It is not as funny as some of the other political statements of our time. Though I found my all time favorite analogy in this book. It's about jackrabbits and works amazingly well. You must read the Author's Note, as with all Thompson's books. This one will make you see why the american people hate politics and politicians hate each other.
From Ed Muskie's addiction to strange drugs to Nixon's obsession with football. This book has all the muck and plenty of enemies. With an always heavy bias towards the McGovern Campaign. Thompson flaunted this bias as a good quality which helped him later when McGovern suddenly was not a huge underdog, but a front-runner.
As we know from Thompson, nothing is sacred, and nothing was in this epic of our democracy. True to all the cheers it recieved from "real" critics. You will close the book with a more open eye on today's politics.
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