/lit/ - Literature

Mostly a hack, books not worth a read, triggerhappy dopehead, but got some articles right.

don't know if we'll ever see quite the level of experimentalism in literature as the cold war produced, because all of the political leakage of this time period created much warranted social upheaval and rebellion, especially in literary forms. What people get wrong about guys like Burroughs, Thompson, Mailer, etc, is that drugs were only part of the equation of their work. These were guys who so feared bureaucratic institutions of power that they sought to break free from control with new literary forms i.e. the cut up, or new journalism. Even something like Dispatches could not have existed in its form without its Vietnam context and its simulation of that through its style.

What do you guys think about Hunter S. Thompson?

>>16731914
they expand your creativity and can often serve as inspiration

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. . . .” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?”
Then it was quiet again. My attorney had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest, to facilitate the tanning process. “What the hell are you yelling about?” he muttered, staring up at the sun with his eyes closed and covered with wraparound Spanish sunglasses. I hit the brakes and aimed the Great Red Shark toward the shoulder of the highway. No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.”

>While working, he used a typewriter to copy F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in order to learn about the writing styles of the authors.

Has anyone actually tried this? Did it help?

>>15459275
Try harder, bitch tits.

>>15206573
The books of his collected correspondence were very fun to read. The guy was unique if nothing else.

Do you know of any authors who write/wrote like him?

What's /his/'s opinion of the guy? I read fear and loathing and the rum diaries, pretty good books imo

>>14333724
>>14333966
You are the latter, as all geniuses are born through consistent results and determination. Every knobhead gets their big break now and then; the difference between you and them is that you let it delude you into a false sense of intelligence.

Hey /lit/, are any authors or books similar to the works of this beautiful, crazy mutant-bastard?

>>12078277
well it is stupid, hunter was left wing. He really hated regan despite also being a strong advocate for the NRA

I've read some of hu ter thompsons book but never his articles, where should I start with his journalism?

Any books where the protagonist has a fun night out and then kills himself?

any other based writers?

>>11034657
yup. many.

i read pic rel at an impressionable age and made a solemn vow that when i got to uni i was going to check those boxes. but it wasn't only him, it was all of those movies i saw where the hero's enlightenment is also helped along by some form of shamanic or psychedelic experience, and almost always for the good. so i had a very positive outlook on all of it going in and generally speaking much of that was confirmed.

i don't do that stuff anymore tho. just reading and thinking philosophy had plenty enough fun going on for it. sometimes too much, in fact, especially in the current era of the rage virus. but it's why i was interested in your question because i think it's actually really germane and important. for all of our justifiable concern with microaggression there's another aspect, suffering, which has gone missing, and it's pretty important. and it is, as that ward essay indicates, not something reducible to economics, nor does economic thinking in turn have a monopoly on concepts better thought in a more religious sense, like debt and repayment. pretty cool stuff.

hey >>11034663,
>>11034638 is me. i should have just put this in th body of another post.

>>9512824

writers are boring people, recreational drugs are more lucrative