/lit/ - Literature

>>22126777

>>22089656
>>22085377
This one is good. It's okay to skip some letters if you get bored of the topic. It's on libgen.

>>21584669
Read this instead, he didn't yer have the money to afford the mountains of blow.

>>21551083
I'm not sure we have the same idea of comfy, but pic related is my go-to when it comes to "comfy' nonfic. Hunter's autobiography, in the form of his personal correspondence, up to the point right after Hell's Angels came out. Epub on libgen.

>>21526246
I always shill this anthology because it's his autobiography, yet still I'm the only one whose read it. Read this if you want the most authentic look at his writing.

>>21524179

>>21407914
If you still have not read pic related you shouldn't speak of HST.

>>21033713
People fail to emulate him because he was genuinely well read. His mom was a librarian and he learned from the classic works of western lit.
I always recommend pic related because I think his early work can be a /litcore/ meme. Honestly it's one of the best books ive ever read. (Yes its on z-lib)

>>20806828
His prose in general is very good.
His collected personal letters are what I recommend. You get the best sense of the guy reading these.

>>20730491
Read this instead

>>20479185
>>20477711
This is where you should start

>>20467666
I've been making this rec in every HST thread. Start reading this around 1961, the very early stuff is slightly boring.
I want to caution you though, I wish I hadn't taken him as my entry point into philosophy and lit as a young man. I realized later I should have started with the Greeks unironically.