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Originally posted by Not Bob
I love that book. I think that it is HST's best book by far (sebby disagrees).
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I like that book a lot, but it ain't his best. His best is F&L. I was a fool to suggest otherwise. But his very best pieces were "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" and the obit for Nixon in "Better Than Sex" (an otherwise lackluster book).
You can't evaluate Hunter on the strength of a single book because he was a journalist/poet. He was wildly erratic inquality, hitting the ball into orbit one moment, shitting the bed the next. I always liked his shit because that's pretty much been the story of my life. It's either sailing over the fence into the cheap seats or I'm going down whiffing, ala Dave Parker falling down on home plate after wildly flailing to pull a high outside fastball over the right field wall. If not for the Seinfeld rule that "everything always returns to stasis if you have half a brain and can handle a problem here and there" I'd be a penniless mushmouthed drunk, screaming "I been tied to the whippin post" into dumpsters.
