Joyride

Like the best works of writers like Terry Southern, William Burroughs, and Hunter S. Thompson, Joyride continues to simmer mutinously in the brain. If I'd never read it, no doubt I'd be a much happier human being, but what is happiness compared with the inside information offered by this skewed but brilliant author? For better or worse, Gordon Chaplin's taut, lyrical and ultimately terrifying portrayal of what's really going on is destined to become a classic.