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What does /lit/ think of Hunter S Thompson?
good for that special time in your life when you are impressionable for all your recreational drug use, and you need the writer to be an interesting character before you are able to enjoy the text
his 9/11 piece was good
Turning in his grave for being known as LE DRUGS man
>>7514629
This.
The caricature they made of him will forever taint his work.
>>7514644
He had a hand in creating that caricature, of course. He's not innocent in his own flanderization.
>>7514644
>Caricature
>In her book HUNTER: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, biographer E. Jean Carroll starts the first chapter with a detailed account of the excess of her subject. It's completely insane. Here's what Carroll reports as a sample daily routine for the gonzo journalist (note that it begins at 3pm):
>3:00 p.m. rise
>3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
>3:45 cocaine
>3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
>4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
>4:15 cocaine
>4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
>4:30 cocaine
>4:54 cocaine
>5:05 cocaine
>5:11 coffee, Dunhills
>5:30 more ice in the Chivas
>5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
>6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
>7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)
>9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
>10:00 drops acid
>11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
>11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
>12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
>12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
>6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
>8:00 Halcyon
>8:20 sleep
>Source: Carroll, E. Jean (2011-10-04). HUNTER: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson (Kindle Locations 196-221).
Overrated by druggy cunts but he's written some pretty great stuff
>>7514586
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and Hell's Angels are pretty grand. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a fun ride, but not his best work by far, nor as good as it is made out to be by the druggies who worship him as an icon. The Rum Diary is forgettable, but he wrote it in his early twenties (something like 21-22), and with that in mind, it's quite an achievement.
His articles for Rolling Stone are mostly funny and insightful, and I actually think Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone is tied with Hell's Angels as my number one favourite work by him, with Campaign Trail a very close second.
>>7514711
"Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives."
>>7514745
i really wish hunter had stuck around for some formal education, his writing would be so much better with a little less of his undergrad tricks like the Captical Letters on Imporant Words
>>7514745
>muh George Orwell ominous prediction of the future
This is profound to people?
The movie version of Fear and Loathing destroyed any chance of Thompson being taken seriously ever again.
When I first read the book (pre seeing the movie) Thompson came across as lucid and incredibly witty. It seemed to me at the time like he was creating these exaggerated situations as a means of satire, and he did it extremely well.
The movie on the other hand went for a much more literal approach, and while it was artistically accomplished in its own ways it was based on a pretty bad fucking reading of the book.
>>7514711
Which Fear and Loathing? I've never read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, but Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is one of my favorite books ever.
>>7514675
He never did shit like this, no one could possibly survive it. He admitted as much himself.
>>7514861
>He never did shit like this
How do you know?
>>7514838
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is amazing: read it.
>>7514873
>no one could possibly survive it
>>7514861
he's made his own consumption logs prior to that, they read about the same. for whatever that's worth.
>>7514888
Yes they could. Sturdy enough people survive all kinds of psychedelic beatings; if his cocaine was pure he would have been fine at relatively low doses.
>>7514888
That's not a citation.
>>7514895
you know how i know you came here after our list was on reddit?
>>7514904
I've never been on reddit dude... You can just call me a retard next time.
>>7514750
He did that to put emphasis on the idea that since 9/11, a myth has been created around the idea that there is this omnipresent threat to our way of life, and the symbolism of the WTC attacks will be the foundation of our retaliation against those dastardly Iraqis or Muslims, or whatever They are.
>>7514950
>a myth has been created around the idea that there is this omnipresent threat to our way of life
There clearly is. I mean, the media always blows things out of proportion, but if you think the West isn't at war with a specific subset of Muslims you are deluding yourself.
I mean, how many mass murders does it take for you to realize that?
It's literally just a month ago that 130 unarmed people were gunned down in Paris by these fuckers.
>>7514897
Associated Press “No One Could Possibly Survive It”
Cincinnati Post 20 November 1998. 14A. Print.
>>7514654
But its a pity when ones work of sharp journalistic observations are forever blunted by one piece of embellished, semi fiction.
>>7514962
It's not necessarily that there isn't a threat, but so far, the political climate of the 21st century has been defined by the War on Terror. What Thompson meant was that with 9/11 we saw the emergence of this ominous entity, the Islamic Terrorist, this abominable creature that we must fight with every asset at our disposal.
>>7515007
>we saw the emergence of this ominous entity, the Islamic Terrorist, this abominable creature that we must fight with every asset at our disposal.
And he's right.
>>7515024
No shit. The man was a fucking genius.
>>7514950
I know why he does it, it's just a cheap trick. CS Lewis is another notorious Serial Capitalizer.
