post #5

I finish the last book, Songs of the Doomed, and read to page 26 of Hey Rube.

Hey Rube starts out with explaining why the book is titled Hey Rube. Thompson is referring to the ignorance of Americans in these new days. Clowns and circus freaks would call someone a rube if they were easily fooled. Thompson claims that the vast majority of Americans are rubes to the political world. The book continues with Thompson's commentary on politics and sports.

A theme that has occurred is Thompson refers to other things quite often like Bob Dylan lyrics of excerpts from the Great Gatsby. He uses them as if they were meant to be talking about what he is which could or could not be true.