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When The Going Gets Weird : The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson : A Very Unauthorized Biography Paperback – December 10, 1999

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Definitive biography of Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and personality.

Sold out in hard and trade paperback by Disney / Hyperion. Eight pages of illustrations. New Prologue, ISBN, and copy of Stipulation preventing me from delivering flowers to Hunter's Mother.

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335 pages
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English
Publisher

POW
Publication date

December 10, 1999
ISBN-10

0967738407
ISBN-13

978-0967738406
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Peter Owen Whitmer is a writer, clinical psychologist, and author of The Inner Elvis,a psychological biography of Elvis Aaron Presley; Aquarius Revisited, seven who created the sixties counterculture that changed America; The Unnatural, in The Best American Sports Writing: 1991, and numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

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‎POW (December 10, 1999)

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‎English

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‎335 pages

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‎0967738407

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‎978-0967738406

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POW - born: Boston. Raised: Salzburg, L.A., Washington, D.C. Education: University of California, Berkeley. Degree: Ph.D. Clinical Psychology. Sports: First US Rugby Team to tour South America [wing-forward]. Music: First drummer for the Turtles. Interests: Civil Rights, Latin American/Caribbean History. Personality Theory. PTSD. Twinless Twins [hence: Elvis bio.]

Lives: Montserrat, British West Indies. [see: scribd.com]

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Debbie Lazaris

This is a Christmas gift!

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2012

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This is a Christmas gift but Im sure she will love it,especially since it was on her Christmas list. :)

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2018

I missed out on reading Hunter Thompson when he was so popular so I found this most interesting, taking me back to what was going in then in general and also about Thompson, of course.

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I really like this book!

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2014

My boyfriend and I read it out loud to each other. Quite honestly, we couldnt put it down. Very sensational and interesting. It was a great prelude to Jann Wenner's Gonzo. We really enjoyed Gonzo and read it, immediately, afterward.

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John from Parrish, FL.

Mostly old news...

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2021

Horribly edited with typos on virtually every page. Embarrassed for them. Grade school quality.

Mostly info on HST that I'd read previously. Mostly.

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2012

A smooth read. Peter nailed HST as only friend and confidant could. I have read every Thompson book out there and the author summarized his life with accuracy, humor, and honesty. I read the book in 2 sittings and really enjoyed it.

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2003

I read Thompson's collected letter's, but they are no substitute for this very well-done biography. The author is not doing literary criticism, it is true- he is doing biography. Unlike most interviews/biographies about this wonderfully unique character, he doesn't drool all over the subject. Thompson did some great work, and the persona he crafted was spectacular. This book, along with the collections of letters, makes clear what a tragedy is the result of attempting to stay on the edge for all of these years. His recent work is all recycling and incoherent parodies of himself.
HST is a wasted hull of a man and a mind. His alter ego became himself and the result was a tremendous waste of talent and creativity. The quality of HTS's correspondence in The Proud Highway makes this all the more clear. I am grateful for what he gave- it's just a shame he couldn't keep a handle on it.

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karen smith

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2014

Ok

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MICHAEL MCVAY

Best Thompson Biography

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2007

This is the most fact-filled accurate and complete biography of Hunter S Thompson thus far. Also, it contains an interesting psychological profile of Hunter S. Thompson because the author is a Ph.D. psychologist.

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