The full facts about debauched lives do not make happy reading, but authors from Robert Louis Stevenson to Hunter S Thompson offer thrilling reading without concealing the cost
Gonzo antiheroes … Benicio Del Toro and Johnny Depp in the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Gonzo antiheroes … Benicio Del Toro and Johnny Depp in the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.y book choices come with two warnings. First, sense: As the old Batman TV shows used to say, don’t try this at home. Not if you want to keep your internal organs intact – and hang on to your friends.
I do find factual accounts such as these dispiriting to read at any length because one is always conscious of the sometimes fatal waste of life and dissolution of talent, and the very high collateral damage. My choices are therefore mostly fictional; they all, I think, provide some sort of context for their characters’ boorish behaviour.Published in 1824, this is a ferocious, mordantly funny onslaught on extremist Scots Presbyterianism.
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