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10 best books like Gonzo (Hunter S. Thompson): Hippie, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson, The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson, Outlaw Journalist, Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, When The Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson: A Very Unauthorized Biography

Hippie
AuthorBarry Miles
ISBN1402728735
Let your freak flag fly!

Climb on the psychedelic bus with the Merry Pranksters and take the Acid Test….Groove on the streets of Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love….Get experienced with Hendrix at Monterey and commune with the mud and 400,000 free spirits at Woodstock….From...
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
AuthorTed Morgan
ISBN0380708825
Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, nihilist, homosexual crusader, and brilliant writer, William S. Burroughs was the patron saint and Prince of Darkness of the Beats of the 1950s. His ground-breaking avant-garde masterpiece NAKED LUNCH shocked the literary world with its graphic descriptions...
Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson
AuthorPaul Perry
ISBN1560256052
Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time. To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters...
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
AuthorJann S. Wenner
ISBN0316005274
Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his singular and provocative style challenged...
The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson
AuthorRalph Steadman
ISBN0151012822
In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former
associate of the Hell’s Angels, one Hunter S. Thompson. Their working relationship resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism. The...
The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
AuthorAnita Thompson
ISBN1555916228
Anita Thompson. The Gonzo Way. [Golden]: Fulcrum, [2007]. First edition, first printing. Twelvemo. 112 pages.

Anita Thompson pays tribute to her late husband as a writer and as a citizen, through her own words and those of who knew him best. With elegant prose and entertaining anecdotes,...
The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
AuthorMichael Cleverly
Warning!*

This book contains the following:

Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives

Cultivation of illegal crops

Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities

Piloting of automobiles under impaired conditions

Transporting...
Outlaw Journalist
AuthorWilliam McKeen
ISBN0393061922
Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and...
Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson
AuthorE. Jean Carroll
ISBN0452271290
This just might be the book that sends me back to watching reruns of the Three Stooges during my spare time. I'll admit that I wasn't particularly interested in Hunter S. Thompson. But hey, there was a neat photo of a man with a gun on the cover so I took the plunge.

Now I had never heard of the author,...
When The Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson: A Very Unauthorized Biography
AuthorPeter O. Whitmer
ISBN0967738407
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Gonzo
AuthorWill Bingley
ISBN1906838119
Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publicly branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Only some of which are true. Even in the 20th century crowded with celebrity, his legacy remains a brilliantly vital force.

The great American...
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test/The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby/Radical Chic & Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers
AuthorTom Wolfe
ISBN0965079929
The Unspoken Thing; Kesey's role and the whole direction the Pranksters were taking-all the pranksters were conscious of it, but none of them put it into words, as I say. They made a point of not putting it into words. that in itself was one of the unspoken rules. If you label it this, then it can't be that....Kesey...
Hammerjack
AuthorMarc D. Giller
ISBN0553587862
In this dark, futuristic thriller, Marc Giller defines the cutting edge of suspense with a relentless tale of murder, techno-terrorism, and a conspiracy one man is driven to uncover—even if he must undo reality in the process.…

HAMMERJACK

They ride virtual waves of code...
Counterfeit Unrealities
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN0739426141
Mood organs. Scramble suits. Poison tongue darts. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) may have invented more wildly imaginative creations per novel than any of his peers. An eccentric whose mind danced on the blurry edge between illusion and reality, madness and metaphysics, he produced a body of work that...
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You
AuthorBill Green
ISBN1596912464
LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK
First released in 1998, the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. But over the past nine years the movie has developed a massive and passionate cult following, led by the creation of Lebowski Fest, a traveling festival of all things Lebowski. Held in a bowling...
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
AuthorOscar Zeta Acosta
ISBN0679722122
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's...
Dead Men Scare Me Stupid
AuthorJohn Swartzwelder
ISBN0975579983
If you're a fan of The Simpsons, you're already a John Swartzwelder fan. Not only has he written more episodes than any other writer, but his episodes are many fan favorites, such as Whacking Day (1993), Homer the Great (Stonecutters, 1995), Homer the Smithers (1996), and Homie the Clown (Clown School,...
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
AuthorJack Kerouac
ISBN0141001879
On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already...
The Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: Volume One
AuthorGilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton's greatest creations, the Freak Brothers are a snapshot of a section of society that never was! Having said that the Brothers are funny, frenetic, fanciful and a few further figurative and alliterative adjectives. Anyone looking for protracted story arcs might be disappointed but...
Badjelly The Witch
AuthorSpike Milligan
ISBN1852279656
Badjelly The Witch can turn children into sausages or chop them up to make boy-girl soup. She can turn policemen into apple trees or bananas into mice and she is the wickedest witch in all the world.

Searching for Lucy, their cow, Tim and Rose become lost in the great black forest. There they meet...
Demon's Law
AuthorMichael Scott
ISBN0722177763
There is a bridge between two worlds, that of Life and that of Death, and Paedur the Bard, Champion of the Old Faith, steps tentatively across the fathomless gulf. Legend speaks of peoples of all races and times still carrying on a semblance of life within the silent Wood of the Dead, kings and peasants,...
Francesca Woodman
AuthorFrancesca Woodman
ISBN3931141969
Published in 1992 in Europe and distributed in the U.S., the first book with photographs by Francesca Woodman immediately created great respect for this enigmatic artist. David Levi Strauss writes in his essay: "The constitutive facts of Francesca Woodman's life are by now well known. We know that...
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