The great shark hunt

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• hv23 · May 3, 2014 · Recommends

  I’ll have to check this one out! Also highly recommended — "The Great Shark Hunt", a collection of his pieces through the 60s and 70s. "Hell's Angels" is marvelous, "Fear and Loathing” is probably his best-known, but nothing quite covers the range of HST's work like this book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Shark-Hunt-Strange/dp/074325...

  on “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (1970)” ↗
• dmix · Aug 29, 2016 · Recommends

  …(letters) The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1 https://www.amazon.com/Proud-Highway-Desperate-Gentleman-195... (articles) The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time https://www.amazon.com/Great-Shark-Hunt-Strange-Tales/dp/074...

  on “Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)” ↗
• mrmondo · Feb 5, 2019 · Recommends

  Probably the two that I find myself thinking back to most often are Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein), The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim), The Great Shark Hunt (Hunter S Thompson), Several Bukowski short stories and most recently The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Steven Novella, Bob Novella,…

  on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗
• bluetwo · Jun 9, 2017 · Recommends

  I'm a big fan of "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time" which is a collection of articles from the first part of his career. I haven't read The Proud Highway but it sounds good.

  on “How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend” ↗