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![]() What may surprise readers is the sweetness of much of the writing. Thompson altered permanently the nature of political journalism by injecting into his reportage the personal and the pathological, and this second volume of letters reads like rehearsals for his more public utterances, almost every page ringing with the sound of gunfire, revving motorcycle engines and partying that began at a level where most partying ends. ![]() with no sleep and no wires to hang on to."" Apparently he hung onto his typewriter, though, churning out not only his drugged-up, wigged-out road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and similarly outrageous articles for Rolling Stone but also for letter after lengthy letter, in the same white-hot, turbo-charged style. ![]() ""The years that were covered in these letters,"" says Thompson, ""were like riding on a bullet train. ![]()
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