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Hunter S. Thompson

Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 43 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1993–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.

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Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) oli amerikkalainen kirjailija ja toimittaja, joka tunnetaan erityisesti gonzo-journalismin uranuurtajana. Hän kehitti tyylin, jossa toimittaja asettuu itse osaksi uutisaihetta ja kertoo tapahtumat omien, usein subjektiivisten kokemustensa kautta. Thompsonin ura ja elämäntapa tekivät hänestä merkittävän vastakulttuuri-ikonin, jonka provokatiivinen ja anti-autoritaarinen ote vaikutti syvästi nykyaikaiseen raportointiin.

Gonzo-journalismin synty ja tyyli

Thompsonin tyylillinen läpimurto tapahtui 1970-luvun taitteessa. Hänen tunnetuin menetelmänsä, gonzo-journalismi, poikkesi perinteisestä objektiivisuudesta: hän ei ainoastaan raportoinut tapahtumia, vaan teki itsestään tarinan keskeisen hahmon. Tämä tyyli teki tekstistä eläväisen, mutta samalla usein hallusinatorisen ja subjektiivisen.

Yksi tyylin kulmakivistä oli hänen artikkeli Kentucky Derby -laukkauskilpailusta, joka nähtiin läpimurtona uudenlaisessa raportoinnissa. Myöhemmin hän toimi Rolling Stone -lehden kansainvälisten asioiden toimittajana, missä hän käytti kyseenalaistavaa ja provosoivaa otetta yhteiskunnallisiin ilmiöihin.

Keskeiset teokset

Thompsonin tunnetuin teos on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, joka pohjautui hänen matkalleen Las Vegasiin. Kirja, joka käsittelee amerikkalaisen unelman sydäntä, saavutti sekä kriittisen että kaupallisen suosion ja on myöhemmin sovitettu myös elokuvaksi.

Muita merkittäviä teoksia ovat muun muassa Hell's Angels, joka kertoo hänen kokemuksistaan moottoripyöräjengien parissa, sekä The Rum Diary. Hän kirjoitti myös poliittisista aiheista, kuten teoksessa Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, joka kokoaa yhteen hänen raportointiaan vuoden 1972 presidentinvaaleista.

Elämänvaiheet ja vaikutus

Syntynyt Louisvillessa, Kentuckyssa, Thompsonin varhainen elämä ja sotilaspalvelus ilmavoimissa vaikuttivat hänen uraansa. Hän työskenteli useissa pienissä sanomalehdissä ja Time-lehden tekstinkäsittelijänä ennen vakiinnuttamistaan tunnettuna toimittajana.

Hän asui pitkään Coloradossa, missä hän teki itsemurhan vuonna 2005. Hänen elämäntyönsä ja kapinallinen asenteensa tekivät hänestä erityisen suositun nuoremman sukupolven ja vastakulttuuriliikkeen keskuudessa.

43 kirjaa

Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1993–2026.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Random House Inc
2000
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Halvin toimitettuna 19,71 €

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

HarperCollins UK
2005
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Halvin toimitettuna 20,90 €

Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas!' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.
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The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2004
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Halvin toimitettuna 16,50 €

Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
2022
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Halvin toimitettuna 19,90 €

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. ‘You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug – especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes’ Roaring down the desert highway, Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo are seeking out the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, they confront casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans, in surreal, chemically enhanced encounters. Hilarious, hallucinogenic and subversive, Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel is a cult classic and a masterpiece of gonzo journalism. ‘A scorching epochal sensation’ Tom Wolfe
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The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Prentice Hall IBD
1999
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Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, "The Rum Diary" is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, "The Rum Diary" is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's bestselling "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels."
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The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Heyne Taschenbuch
2005
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Der lange verloren geglaubte erste Roman von Hunter S. Thompson erzählt die höchst aktuelle Geschichte vom Ende der Unschuld Amerikas. Im Winter 1959 fliegt der dreißigjährige Amerikaner Paul Kemp nach Puerto Rico, um dort eine Stelle als Reporter anzutreten. Es folgt eine wilde Reise voll Sonne, Sex, Rum ? und der Ahnung vom bald drohenden Untergang.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

Hunter S. Thompson

Random House Inc
1998
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Halvin toimitettuna 25,80 €

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-dent and Depraved."
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Curse of Lono

Curse of Lono

Hunter S. Thompson

Simon & Schuster
2026
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The fully illustrated Gonzo classic from Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman, The Curse of Lono blends satire, myth, and immersive reportage into a cult counterculture masterpiecenewly introduced by actress and director, Natasha Lyonne. Tasked with covering Hawaiis largest annual running event, the Honolulu Marathon, Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman quickly abandon conventional sports reporting. What begins as race coverage erupts into an odyssey of excess and an obssession with Lono, the Hawaiian god of rain and fertility. As Thompsons reportage fractures into the surreal, Steadmans illustrations intensify their descent, transforming their time on the islands into a hallucinatory exploration of Hawaiian myth and dark Americana. The result is The Curse of Lono, a Gonzo classic of immersive journalism and illustrated nonfiction.
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Generation of Swine

Generation of Swine

Hunter S. Thompson

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
2026
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Halvin toimitettuna 21,80 €

The second volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary 'Gonzo Papers'. Thompson at his apocalyptic best – covering emblematic events from the 1980s.
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The Great Shark Hunt

The Great Shark Hunt

Hunter S. Thompson

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
2026
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Halvin toimitettuna 23,70 €

An indispensable compendium of Hunter S Thompson's best of Gonzo. Originally published in 1979, The Great Shark Hunt, the first volume of the bestselling 'Gonzo Papers' is Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work. These essays cover Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine, offering brilliant commentary and outrageous humour, in signature Thompson style.
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Screwjack: A Short Story

Screwjack: A Short Story

Hunter S. Thompson; Lars Ulrich

SIMON SCHUSTER
2023
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Halvin toimitettuna 20,90 €

A rare collection of wild and outlandish short stories--long thought to be lost--by literary legend Hunter S. Thompson featuring a new introduction by Metallica founding member Lars Ulrich. Hunter S. Thompson's notorious triptych Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since its private printing in 1991. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters," Thompson warns in the opening piece "Mescalito," a fictionalized chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what it sparked in him while he was alone in an Los Angeles hotel room in February 1969---including a bout of paranoia that would have made most people just scream no, once and for all. But for Thompson, along with the downside came a burst of creativity too powerful to ignore. The result is a poetic, perceptive, and wildly funny stream-of-consciousness take on 1969 America as only Hunter S. Thompson could see it. Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, "Death of a Poet," which describes a trailer park confrontation with a deservingly doomed friend. The heart of the collection lies in its final, title piece, an unnaturally poignant love story ostensibly written by Thompson's alias Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. What makes the romantic tale "Screwjack" so touching, for all its strangeness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden. Screwjack shows how brilliant a prose stylist Thompson really is, amid all the hilarity. As he puts it in his introduction, the three stories here "build like Bolero to a faster and wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, and then drop him off a cliff... That is the desired effect."
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Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview

Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview

Hunter S. Thompson

Random House USA
2018
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More than a decade after his death, Hunter S. Thompson is as popular - and as relevant - as ever. Vigorously political, he both anticipated the situation in Washington now and here, in a collection that ranges from an early conversation with Studs Terkel, to a decade-long exchange with editor David Streitfeld, to his last public interview (no longer available online), his prescience is both exhilarating and profound.
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Kingdom of Fear

Kingdom of Fear

Hunter S Thompson

Penguin Books Ltd.
2015
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Halvin toimitettuna 18,90 €

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes.
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The Curse of Lono

The Curse of Lono

Hunter S. Thompson

Blackstone Audiobooks
2014
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This enormously eccentric book takes listeners on a crazy journey with renowned gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, The Curse of Lono features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay for which Hunter S. Thompson became known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre, is a widely sought-after treasure.
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