Portland Book Review of Keep This Quiet!

By Melissa Boles Margaret A. Harrell tells her own story through the stories of three artists; men who had written impacts on people they weren’t acquainted with, and likely changed Harrell’s life more than any of them will ever know.  Harrell takes the reader through her life from 1965 on, detailing her meetings and interactions with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert along the way. Most captivating are the various letters from Thompson, Klonsky, and Mensaert to Harrell, wh...
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Beautiful in its directness and its openness —Chris Van de Velde, Numenon Counseling Institute Director, Ghent, Belgium Readers will be privy to never-before-published letters from Hunter Thompson, deepening insight into the turning point in his career and emergence into gonzo. —Bernie Nelson, The MindQuest Review Margaret Harrell from early on had as her goal to live the most meaningful life possible. Three mentor/lovers helped in turn to light her way: Hunter Thompson for his ability t...
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Midwest Book Review – KTQ!

Excerpt from Mindquest Review: Harrell's rapturous experiences with Thompson and her transformative journey toward wholeness intelligently propel her literary presentation through and beyond literary boundaries. Many thanks. I hope these reviews keep coming.
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Ron Whitehead on Keep This Quiet! Initiations

Margaret A. Harrell’s Keep This Quiet! III is the real-life alchemical journey of her poet (co-creator with the creative forces of the universe) soul in which she intentionally determinedly makes the journey of initiation, juxtaposing apparently irreconcilable differences into a synthesis, a union of being. And she takes Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, Jan Mensaert, Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and many others with her as she discovers and shares, with us, her own tao her way her I ching her B...
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Nick Storm on Keep This Quiet!

Keep this Quiet is a riveting, soul-baring honest look into Margaret Harrell and the inner workings of one of the world’s greatest writers. It must have taken great courage for Margaret to open herself up to those words and feelings once again. The stories related in the book are honest and pure hearted gold. It makes a fine addition to the Gonzo library. --Filmmaker Nick Storm (Good Reads)
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