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The Proud Highway
- Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Gonzo Letters, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Here is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists - Hunter S.Thompson. In letters to a who's who of luminaries, from Norman Mailer toCharles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez - not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors - Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through hisown razor-sharp perspective.
Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedentedand penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
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- Coby Andrews
- 02-26-21
Not for a casual listen
Excellent overall look into the mind and early days of Hunter. It’s an excellent personal look into how he reacted to various events in both his life and otherwise.
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- Gary
- 02-02-19
A Longview Into Hunters Personal Correspondence
A detailed look at his personal letters and correspondence from very early in his career.
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- C Coleman
- 03-22-21
The Only H.S.T. Narrator Worth His Salt
Hillgartner does justice to the material. I can’t bear to listen to Sowers for more than a few minutes.
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- GanjaPlanta
- 11-14-14
Biography
This is a biography of stuff he did before he gets hooked on drugs and alcohol.
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- Michael Frazier
- 04-14-18
The True Power of Hunter S. Thompon's Writing
If you could sum up The Proud Highway in three words, what would they be?
The Best Ever
What other book might you compare The Proud Highway to and why?
If you like this the the second volume would be the next book to listen too
Which character – as performed by Malcolm Hillgartner – was your favorite?
Hillgartner as Thompson is believable. Other narrators play Thompson to wild and excited
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The letters to Thompson's creditors are great.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-10-21
A must read/listen.
A fantastic book that shows the evolution not only the writer but America. My favorite aspect of this book is the voice narration. It is a perfect reading that keeps you engaged. I have found it difficult to listen to other HST books narration because they tend to have just too much flourish in a cartoonish type of way. Malcolm Hillgartner has this wonderful almost newsman voice, that reminds me of the old network announcers. other readings for different books get to horsey and inflict too much on particular sentences, or situations. for instance, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has a real "Hey man/Far Out" sound to it, that gets very distracting.
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- Mr. Peabody
- 12-18-16
"Gonzo" like sausage is best when you don't watch
I was disappointed.
My hero has feet of clay.
Such is the way of hero's.
"gonzo" like sausage is better .
When you don't watch it being made.
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