What a Way to Go

Here is a selection of book titles by journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, who fatally shot himself in the head Sunday at his home near Aspen, Colorado:

"Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga" (1966)
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" (1972) "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" (1973)
"The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time" (1979)
"The Curse of Lono" (illustrated by Ralph Steadman) (1983)
"Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s" (1988)
"Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream" (1990)
"Silk Road: Thirty-three Years in the Passing Lane" (1990)
"Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (1993)
"The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967" (1997)
"The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel" (1998)
"Screwjack and Other Stories" (2000)
"Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976" (2000) "The Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century" (2003)
"Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (2004)