The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Book Review: Hilarious and insightful
Summary: 5 Stars
Thompson's overview of the USA from(approx)1965 to 1977,with some earlier material written while travelling around South America.It's great,but you'll need to know a bit about US politics and contemporary US history-as it's journalism,it assumes the reader has some knowledge of what was happening at that time in the USA.
The downfall of Nixon,the begining of the west coast counter culture(hippies,Hell's Angels,the Diggers,psychedelia),the rise of Carter,his adventures with a crazed chicano lawyer(later to be the base of "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas")-all here in it's gory details.
The funniest sequences are when Thompson discovers that he isn't on Nixon's Enemies List,and his description of President Johnson allegedly ordering the spreading of rumours about another candidate to the effect that Johnson's opponent was in the habit of enjoying sex with farmyard animals.
If you're offended by colloquial English,drugs,radical politics,human sexuality,rock music or honesty,go elsewhere.Otherwise you'll have a whale of a time.
Book Review: Best HST book.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is quite frankly the best Hunter S. Thompson book I have ever read.
The book is comprised of many different stories (most of which are taken from his other books.) and is basically a 'best of' his work which are rolled into this one book.
It includes such excerpts from Hells Angels, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, Kingdom Of Fear and many others.
If your a big HST fan like myself then get this book you won't be disappointed- it would be an ideal first read of his work because you get a taste of everything.
Book Review: The best of HST
Summary: 5 Stars
Great collection of HST's writing well balanced between political commentary,celebrity interviews and the more entertaining semi-fictional Vegas style stories.Definitely the best of the compilation type books of his available to date.