Books like Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson

This just might be the book that sends me back to watching reruns of the Three Stooges during my spare time. I'll admit that I wasn't particularly interested in Hunter S. Thompson. But hey, there was a neat photo of a man with a gun on the cover so I took the plunge.Now I had never heard of the author, E. Jean Carroll, before ....and with any luck I never will again! What she has done here is gather a bunch of anecdotal information, apparently from interviews, some of which were possibly conducted by her, although I see that she is listed in the book as the interviewee on a number of occasions! What a great ploy that would be! Imagine interviewing yourself! You could tell yourself anything and write it down as anecdotal information! Now Ms Carroll has mixed the information gleaned through interviews and supplemented it with some documentary details and basically edited the works into rough chronological order.I'm not too sure why she did this, but Ms Carroll has interspersed the apparently factual chapters with chapters written by a fictitious character, one Laetitia Snap. Does that make you want to laugh? I didn't either. The Laetitia Snap chapters are certified BS, so who knows about the rest of it? Anyway, I think Ms Carroll had to write the book this way because she can now take credit as being the author, rather than just the editor. I could be wrong, but who gives a hoot anyway? The real mystery is this: why would anyone write this man's biography in the first place? Hunter Thompson is a certified knob who beat his wife and mother! Repeatedly! Who beats their mother? I don't care what your BS excuse is, you don't hit women. Except Rosie O'Donnell. And maybe the blonde woman with the short hair who sits on her ass talking to other women on TV all the time.Maybe someday I'll read a Thompson biography written by someone who wants to make a career as a writer, but probably not. I knew the guy wasn't a saint, but I wasn't prepared for someone who was as totally depraved as HST. I can't understand what is wrong with women, either. This guy had scads of women throwing themselves at him and he was a totally depraved junkie. I could have forgiven him most of his transgressions. But he hit his Mom.