Kingdom of Fear

Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson penned groundbreaking works as outrageous - and provocative - as the author himself. His memoir Kingdom of Fear provides compelling insight into his life and literary output.

©2003 Hunter S. Thompson (P)2012 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

“He amuses; he frightens; he flirts with doom. His achievement is substantial.” ( Washington Post)

We need a HST of this generation

I mean what is there to say, if you're reading this you already realize the impact HST made. Well, we seem to be back to square one. We lost! Now , the great USA is not a high-school small city football rivalry. Like more wacko people seem to buy into. You are not either a conservative or a liberal. So stop it. Your both in most cases, or maybe neither. Still if your an American, HST will help you to stop drinking that awful drink everyone keeps feeding you- bring you back into the fold of reality that we are not one of two sides but a massive area of gray rooting both teams in some shape. He called it back in the 2000's and wisdom can't be taught. Perhaps you will get there a bit quicker however, if you listen to real fuc**ng journalism and change your homeroom ra-ra channel off for a couple days.

Twisted tales of a Gonzo Journalist.

Loved hearing Hunter's vicious dissection of American politics. He is sorely missed. As always excellent narration.

Sowers ruins Thompson

What did you love best about Kingdom of Fear?

The writing

Would you be willing to try another one of Scott Sowers’s performances?

I don't want to. I want Phil Gigante.

Any additional comments?

Please get Phil Gigante from the rolling stone book to do all of the Thompson books, he is perfect. I will buy them all.

Still my favorite book of all time

I remember reading this book for the very first time around 2003 and nothing has ever matched it or even come close. His writing style is so intense and gripping like a crocodile taking you down for a death roll but laughing your ass off the whole time with a huge smile on your face while simultaneously realizing the grave threats that the former century (the American century) has festered and left in place for us to try to survive with. Rest in supreme power and the beautifully rarest weirdness Hunter S Thompson

masterful, urgent and very funny!

is a Awesome read, very digestible, it will grab you from the get-go and take you on a very twisted, adrenalin filled trip through the author's life while making occasional pit stops that turn into hilarious side stories.

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride!

“There is no shortage of dangerous gibberish in the classrooms and courts of this nation. Weird myths and queer legends are coins of the realm in our culture, like passwords or keys to survival. Not even a monster with rabies would send his child off to school with a heart full of hate for Santa Claus or Jesus or the Tooth Fairy. That would not be fair to the child. He (or she) would be shunned & despised like a Leper by his classmates & even his teachers, and he will not come home with good report cards. He will soon turn to wearing black raincoats & making ominous jokes about Pipe Bombs.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten. I was no stranger to it myself, as a youth growing up in Kentucky. I had a keen appetite for adventure, which soon led me into a maze of complex behavioral experiments that my parents found hard to explain. I was a popular boy, with acceptable grades & a vaguely promising future, but I was cursed with a dark sense of humor that made many adults afraid of me, for reasons they couldn’t quite put their fingers on. . . .”

Enough said.

gonzopapers vol 4?

the trial of aspen is good the fack nicolsonstort is okaythe clarence rhomas story is a repeat the grenada story was pk

it's changed my life, genius and hilarious

this book literally changed my life to a point where my life took a sudden upswing, before I was a compulsive liar now I tell the truth all the time and I am into art 24/7. Dr. Thompson touched me and many others. some people say: "people say he's not a doctor", haha.
t's because whenever someone blows their brains out then usually means they cannot perform surgery, like you did in Kingdom of fear removing parts of the great shark hunt and injecting it into this book in a different way in a different tone while adding totally new stories. Every other comment that is not positive is irrelevant trust me here I am a scholar at Oxford and Harvard

Even more relevant now during the age of CON1984.

This piece is even more relevant today during the time of media and medical hysteria of what I call CON1984. Most governments have been quick to embrace a overblown "sickness" that was first hyped by the authoritarian communist regime of China. So how come I have not seen or heard about people dropping dead in the streets here in the states or anywhere else but China? Because the information coming out of China was used as a weapon of fear. Our current "news", media and political outlets have been infiltrated by elements of the CCP and those that seek more power are willing to go along with it to our detriment. The real sickness resides in the fear they created and is far more contagious. Scare anyone or a group of people enough and you can get them to agree to anything. I wish Hunter was still alive today to see the mess both sides of the political spectrum have created. Maybe that's why he shot himself, he saw we were irredeemable as a species with no hope for the future. I plan on carrying the torch he lit even if it kills me.

Awesome!!

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