I've read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Curse of Lono, how does Campaign Trail hold up? Considering reading it.
Also, Hunter S general
It's fantastic. I think it's his best work.
>>7798119
Can you explain why? I loved Fear and Loathing (because how could you not) and I also enjoyed Lono, despite the bad press it received. Would I also like Campaign Trail?
>>7798168
Imagine everything you loved about Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, but instead of Thompson simmering in a hotel room he's crisscrossing the country keeping track of a presidential campaign.
It's the wackiest, most madcap shit, but at the same time it's a running meditation on the state of America and the collapse of the dreams of the hippies.
Plus, at one point Thompson has a snake he takes with him to a hotel. It gets loose, and the acid-dropping bellboy freaks the fuck out on seeing it and beats it to death. That's worth buying a book over, I think.
>>7798174
...that sounds actually really sick. I first got interested in Thompson through Transmetropolitan and if the real McGovern/Nixon story is even 1/10th of how it is in that comic than I'm sold
>>7798174
hahaha that is totally wacked out my dude!! he kills this snake right...lol i have to read this right away. yeah sure my man i'll take a big boring book... with a heavy dose of ACID! fear and loathing more like snakes drugs and awesomesauce, the holy trinity fuck yeah
>>7798183
You will also learn a great deal about why the current American political climate is the way it is. The modern Republican Party was birthed in the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. You'll recognize some of the players, like Birch Bayh, Ted Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan--and Nixon himself, of course.
>>7798194
>NO
>FUN
>ALLOWED
Thompson was a hack, and one of the original fedoras.
>>7798427
>that unnecessary comma
Let's see what you've written, buster.
>>7798430
>comma
>unnecessary
On the contrary, commas are criminally underused in most modern literature.
And why would I post what I've written? I don't have the narcissism to compete with Thompson, nor am I a bourgeois bohemian.
It's excellent, OP. Probably not one if you're just in it for the drugs, but it's an amazing review of the election. One of the few books where there's pathos enough you'll feel bad for politicians you hate.
>>7798436
Don't sell yourself short: you've enough narcissism for this criticism of a book you haven't read to be based in buzzword insults and you not to feel ashamed about that.
>>7798194
kek
