It took me a year to read this

I remember buying this biography of Hunter Thompson in an interesting bookstore in Stratford, Ontario, when we went to the festival last summer. It has taken me all year to read it. Why? Because it is long, dense and heavy. I have read some of HST's writing, and have a nodding acquaintance with his persona. But the book did not compel me to finish it, so I put it aside once or twice. After all, I know how it turns out (that is actually covered in the first chapter). There are interesting facts and excerpts, and stories galore. There is an index, too, which may be useful.

Also, being a hardcover, it is literally a heavy book. And there are pictures, but printed on glossy paper as inserts, and they have a tendency to fall apart. Just little logistical problems, but they make for a non-portable book.

So if you are a hardcore HST fan, you are welcome to borrow this volume.