Pete Clark
Not Recommended
The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume One
By Hunter S Thompson
Bloomsbury 685pp £20 order from our bookshop
Like most people of my approximate age and general outlook, I fell upon a book called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when it appeared in 1971 and devoured it at a single sitting. These were early days in university and people hobbled around campus with Lord of the Rings in their smelly bags. Hunter S Thompson’s brief and furious work blew away the hobbits and all their pothead pixie friends for ever.
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