
The Great Shark Hunt
Strange Tales from a Strange Time
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Scott Sowers
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the best-selling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed "gonzo" - "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s.
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. Scott Sowers gives a performance that makes every minute entertaining as hell, even the boring parts about Jimmy Carter. This is the voice you would hear in your mind if you were reading the text.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
YesGreat Performance
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Hunter never fails
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Think audio book has gotten a bad rap BC Scott Sowers not being very gooid, in fact that is true. Still- unless Johnny Depp records iit, it's good enough.
*Hunter* himself talks too fast, often in a franetic mumble. For that:, there's gonzo papers + have tne text!
Writing this good isn't ruined. In fact the enuciuation is great, there's just too much unnecessary screaming.
Not a great reader, still better than Hunter
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I listened to The Great Shark Hunt over the course of about a year in small bursts, and man, I am glad I did. Scott Sower's performance captures Thompson's passion well, although it can be a bit overwhelming if you try to listen to too much at once. Overall, this is one of the best collections of journalism I think you are ever going to find. Beyond highly recommended!
A Strange and Terrible Glory
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incredible
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gonzo papers1
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Essential Hunter
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Yelling!
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Consider something other than HST, then.
What do you want instead? Some serene parlor reading? A soothing baritone lullaby?
Please.
If you're here for GONZO you're here for THE FEAR.
HST wrote the way Sowers narrates, not the way he himself spoke. He was a mumbling drunken speed freak who could barely articulate a full sentence without pausing and ran several words together in short, incomprehensible bursts. He never intended his work to be read in his own voice, and I suspect if he were alive today he'd wish he could inflect and energize the text EXACTLY like Sowers.
Indeed!
"Buy the ticket, take the ride"
If Sowers bothers you then maybe HST isn't for you
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Also, a whole bunch about Nixon.
Long but worth it
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