Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005)
Auteur de Las Vegas parano
A propos de l'auteur
Hunter S. Thompson was born on July 18, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of sixteen he was inducted into the Athenaeum Literary Association and wrote for the Athenaeum Journal. During his two years in the US Air Force, Thompson wrote a sports column for The Common Courier. After he was afficher plus discharged, he moved to New York to work as a copy boy at Time Magazine and later moved to San Juan to write for a Puerto Rican bowling magazine. He also reported to the National Observer from South America. Upon his return to the US, Thompson wrote Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, which became a national bestseller and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was originally published in Rolling Stone magazine. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Esquire. Both Bill Murray and Johnny Depp portrayed Hunter in feature film movies based on his books, Where the Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, respectively. Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide on February 20, 2005 at his home in Colorado. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Hunter S. Thompson
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's (1988) 1,703 exemplaires, 7 critiques
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2003) 1,527 exemplaires, 10 critiques
Songs of the Doomed : More Notes on the Death of the American Dream (1990) 1,110 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (2000) 1,063 exemplaires, 7 critiques
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (1997) — Auteur — 950 exemplaires, 10 critiques
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library) (1996) 724 exemplaires, 6 critiques
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk (2004) 587 exemplaires, 7 critiques
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson (2011) 256 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2018) 22 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb 3 exemplaires
Raising Capital for Real Estate: How to Attract Investors, Establish Credibility, and Fund Deals (2019) 2 exemplaires
Fear and Loathing in Miami Beach 2 exemplaires
Fear and Loathing at the Watergate 2 exemplaires
The Hippies 2 exemplaires
Hunter's Letter 1 exemplaire
Królestwo lęku 1 exemplaire
Las Vegas 1 exemplaire
By Hunter S Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Gonzo Pa (1905-06-17) [Paperback] 1 exemplaire
Romtrs̃ket 1 exemplaire
Gonzo-Schriften I, 2 Die große Haifischjagd 1 exemplaire
Fear and Loathing in Florida 1 exemplaire
Strange Ramblings in Aztlan 1 exemplaire
Thompson, Hunter S.: Rolling Stone article - 1987 1 exemplaire
1977 11 01 [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
Docto Gonzo blows the lid off the Occult Underground 1 exemplaire
The Harley-Davidson reader 1 exemplaire
Fear And Loathing, Campaign 2004 1 exemplaire
Hey Rube! I Love You: Rolling Stone, May 1999 1 exemplaire
Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, A Savage Return: Rolling Stone 1992 1 exemplaire
The temptations of Jean-Claude Killy 1 exemplaire
The murder of Ruben Salazar 1 exemplaire
Freak Power in the Rockies 1 exemplaire
Strah i požuda u New Yorku 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1989) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 316 exemplaires, 5 critiques
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969-1975, Volume 2 (1998) — Contributeur — 270 exemplaires, 2 critiques
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contributeur — 250 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contributeur — 217 exemplaires
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contributeur — 216 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Contributeur — 170 exemplaires, 1 critique
Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (graphic novel) (2015) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires, 4 critiques
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (2013) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires, 2 critiques
The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books) (2003) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson [2008 film] (2008) — Actor, quelques éditions — 17 exemplaires, 1 critique
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Thompson, Hunter S.
- Nom légal
- Thompson, Hunter Stockton
- Date de naissance
- 1937-07-18
- Date de décès
- 2005-02-20
- Lieu de sépulture
- The sky!!!
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Woody Creek, Colorado, USA
- Cause du décès
- Suicide
- Lieux de résidence
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Woody Creek, Colorado, USA - Études
- Columbia University
Florida State University - Professions
- journalist
author - Relations
- Thompson, Anita (wife)
- Organisations
- United States Air Force
National Observer
Rolling Stone
National Rifle Association
NORML - Agent
- Nesbit, Lynn
Membres
Critiques
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to… par Hunter S. Thompson
This book is a hard for me to rate. Well I was entertained and genuinely laughed enough, there were too many times said I became disinterested in reading more! Like when the story got off on weird tangents and kept thinking, "I'm not sure this is fun anymore ... I kinda want off the ride. "
½
Journalist moves to San Juan to drink rum and beer and get the girl from the plane. Very fast read, might feel a bit pointless in the end but it's fast-paced and fun getting there.
Kind of laughing at myself for labeling this "travel."
Whoops, I thought. Welcome to the night train.
I was hoping for the night train. For more bits of HST's non-sequiters that are a bit of stream-of-consciousness, gonzo truth.
This wasn't it. _Screwjack_, a publication of a 90s, private printing only collection of 3 of HST's shorts (2 pieces out of 3 are straight fiction, I think I've read, but not sure). "Mescalito" was messy-- fun, but messy. Better done in _Fear and Loathing_. (although it's still impressive any time I read any writing committed while a human being was that utterly ripped.)
"Death of a Poet" was promising, but felt like it was bailed out on very abruptly. Like perhaps it could have gone on, and even ended the same abrupt way, but instead, the author just cut to the chase, put a period, and forgot to start a next sentence.
I wanted to like "Screwjack". Stylistically, it's one of the voices I expect when I want to read Thompson. But it seemed pretty pointless to me. I read it twice: yep, still pointless. But it does contain this passage which was absolutely worth the double reading
I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover-- and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you....
Passages like this are why I keep coming back to Thompson, no matter how twisted, violent, immoral, amoral, nauseating, and depressing it can be. Like no other writer I know, he can find the beauty in a shitheap of desperation.… (plus d'informations)
I was hoping for the night train. For more bits of HST's non-sequiters that are a bit of stream-of-consciousness, gonzo truth.
This wasn't it. _Screwjack_, a publication of a 90s, private printing only collection of 3 of HST's shorts (2 pieces out of 3 are straight fiction, I think I've read, but not sure). "Mescalito" was messy-- fun, but messy. Better done in _Fear and Loathing_. (although it's still impressive any time I read any writing committed while a human being was that utterly ripped.)
"Death of a Poet" was promising, but felt like it was bailed out on very abruptly. Like perhaps it could have gone on, and even ended the same abrupt way, but instead, the author just cut to the chase, put a period, and forgot to start a next sentence.
I wanted to like "Screwjack". Stylistically, it's one of the voices I expect when I want to read Thompson. But it seemed pretty pointless to me. I read it twice: yep, still pointless. But it does contain this passage which was absolutely worth the double reading
I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover-- and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you....
Passages like this are why I keep coming back to Thompson, no matter how twisted, violent, immoral, amoral, nauseating, and depressing it can be. Like no other writer I know, he can find the beauty in a shitheap of desperation.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 70
- Aussi par
- 20
- Membres
- 40,154
- Popularité
- #440
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 437
- ISBN
- 415
- Langues
- 21
- Favoris
- 348
