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Polo Is My Life

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Straight from the IBM Selectric typewriter, onto the pile oftypewritten pages on the non-functioning stove, and finally, into theback seat of the red vintage Chevy convertible whence the manuscript is driven right up the publisher's door and straight onto the presses--Dr. Thompson has finally done it!--A PURE GONZO BOOK!! This release was rumored to be a "best of" collection of hilarious letters from the good doctor's hey-day of popularity with the masses (1967 through 1974), but the now cult hero to those In The Know has outdone his latest efforts by leaps and bounds. Rave on, doctor! I've read this book sober, drunk, high, hallucinating, and even comotose and it still comes across as GREAT! Check it out!

Onward, that's where the good doctor goes with this, his answer to Bentley Hayward's question, "But Hunter, what about God?" With prose beyond Hueghs or Farkland, Dr. Thompson has elevated the study of esoclastic spirituality to beyond that of the previous puritanical consentious . I was surprised at the sensitivity the good doctor showed for Justice Grumagrey and the compassion in dealing with Hollinger and the Frip-Lang fiasco. But can the doctor still bite? Two sentences into Chapter 48 - Fear and Loathing Letters from the Land of Doomed Gonzo Catch Phrases; both Gen. Hiltshammer and the Rev.Dodsworthbrown are bleeding stumps. Does God exist? I just finished reading him. At least in a tenaquoius sense. I can't wait for the movie. 'Polo is My Life' indeed.

Hilary can't recall anything about trading pork bellies for fun and profit, and Dr. HST can't recall last week, much less his southern adolesence (sp?). The lack of a title or text does nothing to dimish the warp speed screed of Dr. Gonzo as he fires away with full metal jacket at politicians, his typewriter, the Aspen Police Department, and Jann Wenner, the girly-boy employer and editor of Rolling Stones (now we know how you got the name of your magazine). When Dr. T's lawyer gets him out of the asylum we can look forward to another brain-addled ride on the Prozac Nation SuperHighway. Write-ON!!! HST

From its fine binding and handsome endpapers, right on through to its gilt-edged pages, this is surely a work of clarity and depth, with a raw-edged emotional vulnerability that assuages any tentativeness on the part of the reader. Rave on, good Doctor

Kudos to HST. This latest work has a hautiness, an ambiguousity and yes, a tenderness. Doctor Thompson, if he is a doctor, certainly has my prescription for what ails me. His prose is light and breezy, his technique is refined but still audacious and his analogies crisp and effervescent

This is some of the baddest work from a true hero of 20th century American lit., combining the cutting insight of Twain, the tenderness of Rush Limbaugh, the ego-driven passions of Mailer, the deep complexity of Crichton, and the flair for color matched only by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, St. Exupery, Bukowski, and newcomer Ethan Hawke. Understand it was to be titled "Things To Do In Aspen During Ski Season With A Belly Full Of Hate And A Slightly Tender Liver," but that title was already taken. Sure to be on the Times bestseller list well into the next century. This is the NEW Hunter: kinder, gentler, approaching the milleneum with the thoughtfulness of a rehabilitated Tupac Shakur. Sure to be on the short reading list of Bill Clinton, Bill Bennett and Bill Gates--the "Road Less Taken" for the 2000s. Get 'em while the gittin's good. Good clean fun

DR. THOMPSON IS A LIVING LEGEND.IF HE WAS A MUSIC GROUP HE'D BE JANES ADDICTION (NO! BETTER YET!) HE IS PERRY FARREL BEFORE THERE WAS PERRY, HENRY ROLLINS, JELLO BIAFRA AND GIBBY HAINES ALL ROLLED INTO ONE MIND HE IS IN OTHER WORDS A LIVING GOD.