Chris reviewed Better than sex by Hunter S. Thompson (Gonzo papers ;)
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3 stars
... or the latest volume of the Gonzo Papers. However it isn’t as much fun as it was. Thompson used to lock himself in hotel rooms with a huge bag of drugs then go out and interview politicians while completely stoned, hire huge cars and wreck them, and so on. Now however he stays home at Owl Farm, Woody Creek, Co., and communicates with the world by fax machine. It is no exchange. Even his attacks on Bill Clinton aren’t as good as the diatribes he used to work up against US political figures. His main objection to Clinton seems to be that Clinton denies dodging the draft and also inhaling marijuana; and that when HST gave him a new reed for his saxophone Clinton didn’t know what to do with it. It’s all very well to say he has ‘the loyalty of a lizard with its tail cut off …
... or the latest volume of the Gonzo Papers. However it isn’t as much fun as it was. Thompson used to lock himself in hotel rooms with a huge bag of drugs then go out and interview politicians while completely stoned, hire huge cars and wreck them, and so on. Now however he stays home at Owl Farm, Woody Creek, Co., and communicates with the world by fax machine. It is no exchange. Even his attacks on Bill Clinton aren’t as good as the diatribes he used to work up against US political figures. His main objection to Clinton seems to be that Clinton denies dodging the draft and also inhaling marijuana; and that when HST gave him a new reed for his saxophone Clinton didn’t know what to do with it. It’s all very well to say he has ‘the loyalty of a lizard with its tail cut off and the midnight taste of a man who’d double-date with Jimmy Swaggart’, but unlike Nixon, there doesn’t seem to be any proof. Then again, the death of Nixon brings out the HST rage: he prints a newspaper obituary page which showed Nixon as a kind of saint, then on the opposite page gives us the corrective headline, HE WAS A CROOK. Just in case the reader had forgotten. "Read it and weep, for we have lost our Satan. Richard Nixon has gone home to hell."
