Texts That Will Obliterate Your Forebrain
Discover the most mind-melting, genre-defying books ever written. From Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, this curated list of fiction and biography will challenge your perception and obliterate your forebrain.
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A Feast of Snakes
by Harry Crews
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Also a major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
