I think my summer reading will include Kurt Vonnegut and Hunter S. Thompson

I think you should add some Ubiquitous Bubba.

It's hard to go wrong with Vonnegut, either.

 
On Maurice's recommendation, I got Breakfast Of Champions and Venus on the Half-shell, and although I've tried, I just can't seem to get into them at all.
 
But then again, I didn't try reading them in the summer, they were just part of my 'winter reading'.
 
 

(shoves winter books under an empty pizza box)
 
Yeah!

mike_mccue
 
Another choice.
 
You can read through This and then go about enjoying your summer. 

The transcendentalists had the rare talent of being able to make profound truth sound like pompous pablum.

I'm holding out for Dr. Seuss.

He was not of this Earth.

Now, they sound 20% - 40% cooler.

 
I went into my local library earlier today and asked, "Hi, I understand you have a new book on small penises."
 

To which the librarian replied, "I'm afraid it isn't in yet."
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
I've written a book about sexism.
 
It even has pictures, so women can enjoy it.

You do realize that some of our members from the finer gender carry guns and chainsaws, ya?

Hi,
 
I'm not a great Gonzo fan, though he is fun to read, but mostly a bit meaningless and just too ripped for me to understand and enjoy. I would rather go read Aleister Crowley's "Diary of a Drugfiend" for some totally awesome trips and experiences ... that we can understand and make sense of!
 
Kurt is good reading, though I much prefer to read Burroughs a bit more, and I find some things fun and good, and others not so much fun.
 
I like Ken Kesey and would specialy recomment the movie "The Trip" so many of you here, can gain some perspective on what helped create the 60's and what they were about. But be on guard for that bit on the end, when Ken looks at the whole thing. You also get a great idea of Kerouac and everything else at the time was all about, which will help understand the Vonnegut's, The Vidal's and the Southern's a bit later! It was almost like the whole thing just went beserk and people didn't care anymore, and to me Gonzo is about that more than anything else, and Rolling Stone thinking that he was an important journalist ... and Rolling Stone never had any journalism ... it was just another fanzine, so one man could also get a piece of the groupies!