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!