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Original Title:	Better Than Sex
ISBN:	0345396359 (ISBN13: 9780345396358)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Gonzo Papers #4

Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (The Gonzo Papers #4) Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (The Gonzo Papers #4)
Author	:	Hunter S. Thompson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	September 1995 by Ballantine Books (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. Writing. Journalism. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Humor

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"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again—without leaving home—yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast.

"[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes...Memorable."--Los Angeles Daily News

"What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say what others are afraid to....[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure....In a year when all politics is—to much of the public—a tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to read Hunter Thompson."—Richmond Times-Dispatch

"While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly on the wall, Thompson mastered the art of being a fly in the ointment. He made himself a part of every story, made no apologies for it and thus produced far more honest reporting than any crusading member of the Fourth Estate....Thompson isn't afraid to take the hard medicine, nor is he bashful about dishing it out....He is still king of beasts, and his apocalyptic prophecies seldom miss their target."—Tulsa World

"This is a very, very funny book. No one can ever match Thompson in the vitriol department, and virtually nobody escapes his wrath."—The Flint Journal

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There are two kinds of Hunter S. Thompson fans: Those who get Gonzo tattoos over spring break and those who read his political stuff, like this book. It's the former who embrace the drug-addled mythology of the man. The latter can appreciate the brilliant writer and social commentator the world lost to suicide in 2005.Although I was just a young lad in '92, I still find his letters and essays fascinating. He knew how the real political process worked better than anyone else.Those who want Gonzo

Well, this was fun. Intelligence, sarcasm, & well-done absurdism as only Thompson can offer.

When it's good it's FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL repurposed brilliantly for the 1992 election. When it's bad, it's a boring self-parody. The split between the two is about even, but thankfully the opening introduction to the election and the Nixon obit closing are two worthy bookends to the piece, which probably ensure a higher level of satisfaction than BTS: COAPJ actually merits.

Hunter S. Thompson was one hell of a writer. Read this. Substitute Donald Trump for Richard Nixon and you get the sort of enlightened savagery that we are missing (so far) in todays political commentary. Long live the dead king.

This wasn't bad. I mean, it is HST, so it is bound to be at least as good as his other, later books, which basically all read like someone trying to write like Hunter S. Thompson.My problems with it were many, and here are a few:1. This book is completely outdated, and not in the cool sort of retro-y way that old sci-fi gets after its projected "future date" has come and gone. No. Dated in a way that makes it almost impossible to care about half of what he is talking about. Clinton. Ross

The most hilarious book on American politics, bubba. Ye gods! I am convinced that journalism is the career for me. Either that or I'm a clueless bastard heading into the heart of the enemy camp, ready to commit South Indian jihad for reasons flimsier than bollywood's sense of plotting.

Thompson's political writing is his best writing, and here we get a good dose of /gonzo/ journalism; that is, fiction that uses the real situations and real characters and draws the emotional truth out of them. This is also interesting because it features contemporaneous faxes and notes written to campaign officials that ends up sort of acknowledging that, yep, this wasn't all in Thompson's head - he really had access to powerful people and really dug in. He's lost some of the manic energy that