Fear and Loathing
~ Hunter S. Thompson
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Hakael
~ 29-year-old man in Nashua, NH
Fear and Loathing
“The seedy underworld of politics as only Hunter S. Thompson can write it.”
Asterios Polyp
“Further proof that the graphic novel is not a medium you should be avoiding, but one you should be exploring more often.”
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~ 34-year-old man in New York, NY
Fear and Loathing
“Last week I read about a pundit who compared Obama to Nixon - that their politics were more or less in the same wheelhouse. It...”
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“The patron saint of writers who think they can change the country with a feral alchemy of drugs and insanity. Required reading...”
BrianB
~ 55-year-old man in Thunder Bay, Canada
Fear and Loathing
“In the summer of 1973 I read everything I could find about Watergate, fundamentally shaking my political mindset. This gonzo...”
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A few comments on Fear and Loathing (9)
Aug 28, 2010, 3:57 PM
Hildy, a 36-year-old woman in Washington
“This book is just as much about 68 as it is about 72. So much of Democratic Party politics seems to be a reaction to the Convention of 1968....Funny how Obama was supposed to excorcise all that. Also funny how the first real coherent analysis was done by a self-described (although very articulate) lunatic. I will have to check Nixonland out, but I enjoy this more as almost a primary document of the time.”
Aug 28, 2010, 4:14 PM
WilliamWimble, a 43-year-old man in New York
“The two books definitely supplement each other.
Nixonland has an incredibly good section on the 68 convention.”
Aug 28, 2010, 2:43 PM
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WilliamWimble, a 43-year-old man in New York
“I hadn't read this since high school and just re-read it after reading Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland". Made more sense in that context.”