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The Damned Highway (2011)

by Brian Keene(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1595826858 (ISBN13: 9781595826855)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dark Horse Books

review 1: This is an odd story of Hunter S. Thompson facing the forces of Lovecraft's mythos during the 1972 presidential campaign. He really doesn't like Nixon, but doesn't seem to be much in favor of anyone else, either. It's a well-told humorous story, certainly very different than anything else that Keene has previously done, but is pretty much the same thing that Mamatas did in an earlier novel called MOVE UNDER GROUND. It just features Thompson this time and is set a decade later. I'm not sure if it's meant to be a sequel to (or perhaps a reboot of) the earlier, shorter book or not; I'd recommend reading one or the other but not bothering with both.
review 2: This union of two styles and genres of writing just didn't work. Both the 'Gonzo' writing and the many Love... morecraft references feel forced, and its borderline insulting to the works and lives of both Lovecraft and Thompson. I thought working Thompsons suicide into the plot years before its occurrence was the breaking point for me, until the two authors wrote themselves into the ending. I'm not even sure how it took two authors to create something this bad in the first place. They tried to hard to hit a mark that never existed, and fell short of hitting anything at all. less

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