What are lits favourite Hunter S novel?
I've read Hells Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Rum Diary. What else would you recommend?
Was this man important in 20th Century literature introducing 'gonzo' journalism?
Campaign Trail '72
>>8020935
I've only read Fear and Loathing. I got Hell's Angels but haven't read it.
I like his way of storytelling. His way of writing has become much more relevant these days. It seems that you can't bring news without entertainment. Thompson able to provide a scoop with something for reader takeaway other than pure facts.
Well I think I'm just an idiot who doesn't like to read news
>>8020935
Personally read F&L in Las Vegas/On the Campaign Trail, Hell's Angels, the Kentuck Derby and the Curso of Lono.
One of my favourite writers, I've read F&L in Las Vegas about six or seven times, I'm writing an essay about its correlation with Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, shit's a blast. I recommend you read anything you can get your hands on, more or less everything's available online in pdf format, there's no excuse to avoid getting it if you like his writing.
I think he was maybe one of the first to truly understand the value of (self-conscious) perspectivism in journalism - he certainly was (and remains, as far as I'm concerned) the only one to do justice to the idea - everything after him just isn't on par, when it comes to the beauty of his writing/the depth of his observations. Only one to come close is Joan Didion, and even then, she was much too disaffected to really do the format justice.
>>8020935
IDK I LOVE THEM ALL BECAUSE HE'S SOOOOO EDGY AND COOL I WANT TO WRITE JUST LIKE HIM HAHAHAHAHA
>>8021674
>Hunter S Thompson
>Kierkegaard
what's the correlation? Is it because the over-reflective part?
>>8021689
It's more about how Thompson-character's antics are, in my view, similar to the behaviour of the Knight of Faith (as far as I can understand it) - in short, there is a "need" for God after the Death of God, a vacuum to be filled by a narrative, which in this case is the American Dream (as the notion of the completeness of possibilities for each individual); to live it to its fullest, though, to fulfill its promise/law, there is a need for the Individual to overcome the General, the day-to-day morality of those who claim to follow the Americann Dream (hippies and pigs alike), through unbelievable acts of absurdity, by stretching his own humanity to the most remote borders of possibility.
>>8021683
And then there's this cunt.
>>8021728
ha! I'm a journalist, but like am I? I'm going to do some ACID and go to VEGAS because I'm FUCKING REAL.
Good thing I have some nice words and a p good prose style so I can mask the fact that I'm a try hard fuck head who has nothing wise to say about the world.
>>8020935
>novel
>hells angels
>>8021733
"But what is sane? Especially here in "our own country" - in this doomstruck era of Nixon. We are all wired in a survival trip right now. No more of that speed that fueled the Sixties. Uppers are going out of style. This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him too seriousl. [...] All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too."
Shoo you shitposter, shoo.
>>8021761
HA! You think that's good? You think that has substance? You are wrong, my friend! That is garbajj! And don't ask me for arguments because I don't have any! Mwahaha!
>>8021773
Please stop
>>8021801
At least he's bumping the thread and giving me a chance to type out some of my favourite passages.
"Now off the escalator and into the casino, big crowds still tight around the crap tables. Who are these people? These faces! They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas. But they're real. And, sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them - still screaming around these desert-city crap tables at four-thirty on a Sunday morning. Still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino."
>>8021801
I truly hate you, you fucking /lit/ loser.
