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I have liked oral biographies ever since I read the George Plimpton/Jean Stein volume "Edie," and for dealing with the outsized legacy of Hunter S. Thompson, I think it was a great choice. In the end this book made me no less intrigued by Thompson the writer, even as I came to understand how blowing it on big stories really did seem to be something essential to his writerly DNA. But what really stayed with me is all the unsavory details of just how beastly HST was to the women in his life. It's always hard to know about these things, since to really get it you have to be there, see for yourself, but there were just too, too many stories of antics that left the women in Thompson's life terrorized and demoralized not to have it leave a kind of stain.