Review: Screwjack

Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hunter S. Thompson's "Screwjack" is as salacious, unsettling, and even brutally trio of short stories. (I think the title story is sometimes distributed alone, or maybe used to label the set.) The first of the three pieces, "Mescalito", was published in Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream. This entire audio is enthusiastically narrated by Scott Sowers with a delivery I can easily imagine coming from HST himself.

“Screwjack”, the climactic title piece, feels like the joke “The Aristocrats”; how far will HST go? Voice by Raoul Duke in full cynical/mentally unbalanced Gonzo journalist mode, it is a vivid homoerotic fever dream that careens off into animal cruelty.


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