I picked up Choke and Haunted from the library the other day. I've started Haunted, and its real fucked up. I like it.
Bogey, have you ever read any of his books before?
I also picked up Better Than Sex by Hunter S. Thompson. I'm about half-way through. It's the first book of his I've read (I've been meaning to read his stuff for a while now, but getting a library card in Motown is such a hassle), and I definitely like it. Fear & Loathing is probably my favorite movie, so I'm looking forward to reading the book.
Let me know how you like
Better Than Sex because I'm also new to Hunter S. Thompson. I'm reading
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas right now, and like LLC said, you should definitely read it. I am finally almost done with it and I think I might have to go back and read it two or three more times just because it's such an easy read and it is so funny in a twisted disturbing way. Similar to Chuck Palahniuk novels, but in more of a "Let's screw with this guys head for the sake of our own amusement" way.
Does anyone know of any other authors that write like Palahniuk and Thompson? I've been a big fan of Elmore Leonard over the years and he is the closest that
I have read. But he is almost like the guy that read what was popular way back when (he's old), and took the next step into race relations and funny violent situations (As seen in movies adapted from his books like
Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, etc...). Whether you like the movies or not, he is a very good crime writer where you are rooting for the bad guys to succeed. Palahniuk and Thompson seem to have taken his style and went disturbingly further with it. I would love to find more authors who write like them. There has to be more.
