![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shaped like a book, priced like a book, Screwjack is ultimately little more than an exercise in selling gonzo soup to the boomer soul - and while Thompson has certainly established his wholly understandable willingness to publish recycled and less-than-inspired work over the past two decades, even he must be a little embarrassed by the pure meretriciousness of this endeavor.īut Fear and Loathing in America, Thompson's other new old book, is as substantial as Screwjack is slight. Synopsized like that, it sounds at least as entertaining as an Eminem CD, but it isn't. Screwjack, which was originally published in 1991 in a limited edition of 326 copies, is a slim collection of three pieces that are simultaneously slight and rambling: In the first, Thompson takes lots of drugs in the second, his friend commits suicide after squabbling with a sex doll in the third, Thompson makes out with his cat. Thompson has two new books out, and both of them are old. The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976 ![]()
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