| Hunter S. Thompson...
Posted: 11/5/2009 7:15:50 AM | Most creative writer I have ever read... I find his mix of altered reality both amusing and intellectual, so...
I'm just curious to know; do we have any S. Thompson fans in the house? & maybe a few words to Hunter fun might be shared as quotes if you like
ps.. i am new to this site so I am sorry if this isn't fitting into the usual ways of the place, I am very open to suggestions if anyone feels the need to say anything
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| Hunter S. Thompson...
Posted: 11/5/2009 2:16:51 PM | Went to a yard sale last week. Lady had some hard cover books for sale--two bucks each. One was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Looked brand new with dust jacket. I asked if she'd ever read it. She said she hadn't. She'd bought it for a gift for a friend, but something happened and she never gave the gift. Anyway, I'd seen the movie--didn't like it--but I thought the book might be good. I'd never read it. Still haven't read it.
Got the book home, checked the copyright page: First Edition. Now I've got to go out and buy another copy to read because I don't want to take the chance of damaging this copy.
I've always liked the guy, Thompson; not because of his writing, but because he spoke up for that girl in Colorado who was sentence to life in prison because she set into motion a series of events that eventually resulted in the murder of a police officer. She should of been punished, but not as harshly as she was. | |
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| Hunter S. Thompson...
Posted: 11/5/2009 3:04:46 PM | wow, thank you for the reply... that's a very interesting story mate
Hunter was not just a writer, but also a journalist, and political activist. He obviously had a very fast and full life reflected in his books, but above all his amazing literature and written achievements... He cared about people and was not scared to fight for what is right and good for western society (political or banking sectors)
I think i have to say this as a ending...
peace :D
fear and loathing quote...
'We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That 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 seriously... 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. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.' | |
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| Hunter S. Thompson...
Posted: 11/5/2009 3:33:33 PM | Yes, Hunter was a disappointment. He painted himself into a corner. He created a monster and he didn't have the fortitude to step back, or let go.
He was surrounded by enablers, who put on a shameful display at his funeral service.
I'm thinking particularly of Johnny Depp, here.
But guess what, re: killing himself with his kids in the house. There is nobody more self centred and selfish than a drug addict.
Mailer was also seduced by celebrity. Hemingway as well. All successful writers are vulnerable. They become parodies of themselves. Hunter wrote the same book for the last twenty years of his life. He became a clown and those Hollywood vampires fed off him.
When I lived in Vegas me and my drug addict/alcoholic cronies idolized Thompson. He had the money to get away with that sh1t for a lot longer than I did. Somewhere I grew up and got out and his destroyed talent doesn't mitigate what he became.
And all those lame, phony syphons who egged him on are left to spout off effusively about what a great man and writer he was while they lived vicariously through his self destruction. And call it art. Instead of degradation.
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