I just finished reading Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Where do I go from here in regards to Hunter S. Thompson?
>>8157598
>reading degenerate liberals
Try Mein Kampf instead.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
I think the rest didn't impress me that much
>>8157598
You grow up and stop reading Thompson.
>>8157598
Hells Angels was good.
He had a few really good books but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is his finest work and it omly gets worse and he becomes a caricature of himself.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hell's Angels
The Curse of Lono
The Kentucky Derby etc.
I'm in the process of acquiring the Gonzo Papers, hope to read them across summer.
>>8157600
>>8157619
Ignore these people, they barely skimmed his works and only got "lol drugs so random" out of them. Pitiful.
>>8157598
If you are looking for something by Hunter S. Thompson go for hells angels
His other stuff is pretty politcal, take that into consideration before reading anything besides Hells Angels or the rum diary
The rum diary is pretty good, not a noteworthy piece of literature though
I'll just go by what I personally have read
Fear and Loathing: Campaign Trail '72 is pretty much in the same spirit as Las Vegas, you'll enjoy it.
Hell's Angels is more of a straightforward journalistic effort but it's still a really entertaining and compelling read.
The Rum Diary is a nice breezy novel if you're a person who enjoys traveling and drinking and journalism, kind of like a Hemingway novel. Like >>8157712 said, it's not particularly noteworthy, but if you like Thompson's work it only makes sense to give it a stop.
>>8157600
HST was hardly even a liberal. He was just critical of Nixon, which isn't exactly an unreasonable stance seeing how things turned out.
>>8158152
Nah he was pretty liberal. Pro abortion, pro minorities, etc. I believe when he ran for Sheriff he ran as "the freak candidate". For those days anyway, he was pretty lefty.
Campaign trail 72'
to give his works the respect they are due, take some Rx amphetamines and a hallucinogen of your choosing so you can read his shit in a frenzied, distorted, headspace.
>>8158181
Ah yes the Freak Power ticket. Thompson was pulling all his strings and trying to get all the freaks to come out of the woodworks and vote for him. If I remember correctly the campaign poster had a fist clutching peyote buttons.
It seemed farcical but something tells me if he had been elected Thompson totally would have renamed Aspen to Fat City ha
>>8157600
He was pro-gun, at least.
YOU CANNOT PARK ON THE SIDEWALK
WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN
>>8157598
Shed your hipster hype badge and go for the extra credit by reading "The Revolt of the Cockroach People"
>>8158399
>bringing up Oscar Zeta Acosta for the first time in board history and NOT mentioning his masterpiece
>>8157598
>Where do I go from here in regards to Hunter S. Thompson?
To Tom Wolfe, who did it better.
>>8157598
rum diaries is a pretty comfy book desu senpai
>>8157600
Alt right fedoras are the worst
two paths
1. read hell's angels > read campaign trail > read the great shark hunt
2. watch the movie > buy an HST poster for your college dorm > go to a costume party as him > tell everyone he is your favorite writer > do 2g of shrooms and tell everyone you love psychedelics
>>8158181
I love how /pol/ has polarized itself to the point that not outright hating all non-whites automatically makes you a liberal
>>8158668
HST considered himself a classical liberal though
He was a kind of libertarian socialist expressing weirdly almost Randian individualist views but believing firmly in the social services of the govt.
>>8158865
I know very little about HST, I just found it a bit jarring that "pro minority" is now considered a sign of leftism, regardless of his actual beliefs.
>>8159710
Right, I do see what you mean
>>8157598
Read better authors
>>8158181
>being pro minority now makes you a liberal
This is how bad the /pol/ cancer has gotten.
>>8157600
He was a marxist, not a liberal
>>8159766
This was in the 1970's though. Context. Did you read the thread at all?
