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Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
Will Self
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Modern Situationist
Psychogeography in its contemporary manifestation owes much to the 1950s situationists from the Left Bank of Paris believing (this was after several carafes of vin de table) that by traversing the city on foot they could bring down the micro climate structures of ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)
Hunter S. Thompson
Modern Library, 1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.
Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on ...
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Firefly Books, 2006
Perfect!
Thanks for the amazing service. I greatly appreciate the prompt delivery.
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Gonzo: The Art
Ralph Steadman
Harcourt, 1998
Plastered from the master.
Having had, as many people did, my first taste of Ralph via Hunter S Thompson's books, I found this to be a great introduction to the Hyperactive and frantic style of a dude who is probably my favourite artist. This has a forward by Hunter, gives great colour examples ...
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Untrodden Grapes
Ralph Steadman
Harcourt, 2005
Once again - brilliant!
Steadman has outdone himself with this latest book of narrative and artwork. You will be taken on a tour of the wine producing areas of the world, portraying the author's love of the drink. Each story is highlighted with artwork as further interpretation. I ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Hunter S. Thompson
HarperPerennial, 2005
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.
Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on ...
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The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Bloomsbury USA, 2004
A real GEM !!
Any reader,particularly of history by Ambrose Bierce,will greatly enjoy this book. Little wonder, Bierce (1842-1914),an American journalist,satirist -"it was said that a bad review from Bierce could break a writer's career;and writer of short stories who earned the ...
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
George Orwell
Harcourt, 1996
Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election.
2008 is the ideal time to apply the principles that we have learned from Animal Farm and apply them to November's 2008 Presidential election. Just as Napolean, the pig, instigated a rebellion against the owner of the farm (Jones) by talking about how great things will ...
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The Curse of Lono
Hunter S. Thompson
Taschen, 2005
Fear and Loathing in Hawaii
The Curse of Lono really held my attention, and the illustrations by Steadman are very cool. I didn't realize this was such a large book, but it makes a great addition to my coffee table. Similar to The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Curse of Lono ...
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me
Ralph Steadman
Harvest Books, 2007
The Jokes OVer by Ralph Steadman
If your a fan of Hunter I highly recommend this book. I'ts written by his best friend, not some second hand source of filtered information,
so it's told how it is, how it was, and what really wend down on their adventures on the job.
The book is also full of ...
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The Grapes of Ralph: Wine According to Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman
Harcourt, 1996
Trampling Out the Vintage
Ralph Steadman is a very wicked person. Has no respect
for nothing, this guy. Anybody who could do drawings
for Hunter Thompson couldn't possibly get serious
enough to do justice to wine, could he?
The Grapes of Ralph is a semi-serious, very funny
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America
Ralph Steadman
Fantagraphics Books, 1989
The perfect accompaniment to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ralph Steadman was the perfect artist to accompany the crazy, drug-addled travel writing of Hunter S. Thompson. Even though Steadman is not a serious user of hallucinogenics, his art can be very deceiving otherwise. A real gem of an art book.
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The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life
Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Press, 1996
Not for Nationalists
This book is an inside joke, and a classic at that. It is a grand send up of professional Irish (both at home and abroad). As example, consider a book written in Gaelic making sport of the Gaelic movement by means of a Gaelic festival. ( In ourland of the professional ...
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Sigmund Freud
Ralph Steadman
Firefly Books, 2006
Siggy my friend
I read this book many years ago. Good info about Frued . Read it and bought it because you cant go wrong with Ralph Steadman.Outstanding drawings asif I had to tell you that.
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Tales of the Weirrd
Firefly Books, 2002
Must Have!
Along with Steadman's unique and inspiring art, this book explores the land of the weirrd....humans who once entertained the boring people with their bizarre and unusual oddities. With each tale of a sideshow star, Steadman draws us a picture and weaves an eloquent and ...
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