Lono & the Curse of the Haole (Epilogue | Unedited)
There's a book that has been following me. At Weller's Book Works in Salt Lake City, Utah, I had the pleasure of examining the book in their rare collection. I fell in love with the artistry that famed illustrator Ralph Steadman had contributed to its significance. However, Mr. Weller had a warning: "Don't expect Hunter's writing to amount to anything." As a Hunter S. Thompson fan, I cursed his notion that a published work of Thompson's was anything other than great. The price tag on the book was $400 — a bit out of my price range, so I didn't take it home. A few months later, Weller's had a pop-up stand at the SLC Airport where the same book was behind a locked case. I was less than hammered from the airport pub, but paranoid enough that the book being in the same terminal as my flight meant something. I studied the book, "Why are you here?" The pop-up bookstore employee came up to me and asked if I wanted to look at it closely. I repl...
