
Ticket to Ride
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Hunter S. Thompson
The website Captain Coaster has a “World Roller Coaster Rankings ” list. Three of the top five are in the United States, Poland has the number two spot, and Japan the number 5 spot. The number one spot is held by the Steel Vengeance coaster in Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio. From a review by Jack Ledford earlier this month: “Simply the best coaster ever built. There are maybe four roller coasters worldwide I could understand you saying are better than this, but for my money, this beats them all. Extremely long ride, with a jaw dropping first third, solid middle third, and a masterful layout in the final third. No notes. My 100th coaster too so I have a special attachment.”
About the author
Hunter Stockton Thompson , (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, regarded as one of the principal pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional article titled “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved” for Scanlan’s Monthly, which further raised his profile as a countercultural figure. It also set him on the path to establishing his own subgenre of New Journalism that he called “Gonzo”, a journalistic style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative.