Hunter

by E. Jean Carroll

Book Overview

A biography of the journalist who was the inspiration for Doonesbury's Uncle Duke features material culled from interviews with family, friends, ex-lovers, and such figures as Tom McGuane, George... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525935681
• ISBN13: 9780525935681
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Insanely Funny!!!

I read this book well before the internet came my way, and thus without the benefit of all these negative reviews. Wow, was that lucky! I LOVED this book! It is written in a bizarrely humorous fashion. It essentially mimics (if not mocks) Hunter's writing style,as well as Hunter's paradegenerate personality. It is almost completely fictional (as I recall), and yet it captures all kinds of fundamental truths about HST. I read this as I was recovering from a surgery, and I would laugh so hard that I thought for sure I was going to rip stitches and spill guts. I later loaned the book out and never saw it again. Only today was I able to identify it again--I recognized the cover. I am totally dumbfounded by all the negative reviews; just goes to show there is no accounting for taste. I guess if you go into a book expecting one thing and it turns out to be another, disappointment can emerge. So, go into this realizing it is a satire/parody of HST and it makes good-natured fun of him. HST is not a God, for goodness sakes, and the humor here captures the man's well recognized devious personality. This is out of print, but if you can ever grab a copy, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU DO SO. This is indeed gonzo reading. I've read a high percentage of stuff by HST and about HST and this is one of the best!

Why is this gem out of print?

My goodness what is this world coming too. This book simply is the greatest. After watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I simply had to devour all information I could find on this amazing man, Hunter S. Thompson.I am so pleased to have found this informative work of art on such a legendary American figure.Thank you E. Jean! Please never stop authoring books, you are wonderful.I just hope this book is re-released so others can enjoy it as much as I have.

Truth hurts

I enjoyed reading about the good, bad and ugly aspects of Hunter's lifestyle. In the end I thought it was harshly honest. Much like the man himself. It didn't make him look good. But you don't want to see Hunter S. Thompson do anything acceptable. That would spoil the fun of it.

Fantastic Book, Well Written, Well Researched

E. Jean Carroll takes a twisted look at one of America's most Twisted men. She, through extensive research, in depth interviews, and personal experience with Thompson himself, is able to show just how odd this man's life is. A fresh way of writing a biography. The other two books that came out about him at the same time pale in comparison.

Excerpts from a few published reviews

"E. Jean Carroll is the female answer to Hunter Thompson."- David Quamman, 'The New York Times' "Carroll's approach is novel .... it's gonzo biography." - Indianapolis Star "A hilarious version of Sade's 'Justine'... Echoes her wild subject well, while framing some serious interviews with drug dealers, politicians, childhood friends, and, notably, Thompson's ex-wife." - San Francisco Chronicle Review "Uproarious fun... Perhaps E. Jean Carroll's wacko-wanton biography is the only way to throw a net over the cavorting career of Doctor Thompson... Carroll... out-gonzos the master." - Albuquerque Journal "Crisply edited reminiscences of his friends... make the book as irresistable as 'Edie,' the bestselling oral bio of Andy Warhol's starlet, Ms. Sedgwick." - Entertainment Weekly "'Hunter' is to other biographies what the Harlem Globetrotters are to Athletes for Christ." - Tom Robbins "He should have been dead 20 years ago!" - HST's Private Physician