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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

January 11, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Raoul Duke and his attorney go on a mad, drug-fueled tear through late 1960s Las Vegas, where they haphazardly cover a desert motorcycle race and attend a police convention. The whole time I was reading this book I could not help but keep thinking about how very annoyed I would be if I were on this trip with Duke & the Doc. Not that anyone I know’s ever gone on so wild a tear, but I could certainly see the echoes of herding around friends […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1960s, classics, drugs, humor, Hunter S Thompson, travel, United States

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1960s, classics, drugs, humor, Hunter S Thompson, travel, United States ·
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Hell’s Angels – Hunter S Thompson (1966)

Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson

October 19, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Well there are times when this book is really interesting, especially as a critique of media-narratives and government overreach. And there’s times where the author (quoting and not quoting various Hell’s Angels) sure does spend a lot of time talking about rape, and not really making salient points. It’s a kind of bizarro world version of critiques of use of rape charges being used against Black men, and there might actually be some validity to the specific over-prosecution of Hell’s Angels by California police. If […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Hunter S Thompson

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:429 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Hunter S Thompson ·
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In June of 2016 my wife, Jen, and I took our fourteen-month-old daughter, Oona, to the Nantucket Film Festival.

The New One by Mike Birbiglia

My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter

Hey Rube by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Nickle Brickle'Bee by Sterling Nixon

Cold Storage by David Koepp

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Mark of Zorro by Johnson McCulley

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber

The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

November 28, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The New One – 3/5 Stars This is the second Mike Birbiglia book I’ve read, after Sleepwalk with Me, and it’s good in the ways that comedians’ books are good and bad in the way that comedians’ books are bad (though this is a general issue with the form more than this specific book). Mike Birbiglia’s career is interesting in part because of the way he clearly got taken up by “Big Storytelling” around 2009 or so, and the opportunities to write movies that came […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bakari Sellers, Charles Graeber, Cold storage, Colin Dexter, crying of lot 49, David Koepp, fear and loathing in las vegas, hey rube, Hunter S Thompson, James Loewen, Johnson McCulley, last seen wearing, Lies My Teacher Told Me, mike birbiglia, Muriel Spark, my vanishing country, nickle brickle'bee, Stephen Greenblatt, Sterling Nixon, the ballad of peckham rye, the good nurse, the mark of zorro, the new one, the swerve, Thomas Pynchon

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:622 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bakari Sellers, Charles Graeber, Cold storage, Colin Dexter, crying of lot 49, David Koepp, fear and loathing in las vegas, hey rube, Hunter S Thompson, James Loewen, Johnson McCulley, last seen wearing, Lies My Teacher Told Me, mike birbiglia, Muriel Spark, my vanishing country, nickle brickle'bee, Stephen Greenblatt, Sterling Nixon, the ballad of peckham rye, the good nurse, the mark of zorro, the new one, the swerve, Thomas Pynchon ·
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