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>>17016953
>Sherlock Holmes’ autistic faggot brother
laughed harder than I have all week, good stuff bro

>In her book Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, biographer E. Jean Carroll starts the first chapter with a detailed account of the excess of her subject. Here's what Carroll reports as a sample daily routine for the gonzo journalist (note that it begins at 3pm):

>3:00 p.m. rise
>3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
>3:45 cocaine
>3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
>4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
>4:15 cocaine
>4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
>4:30 cocaine
>4:54 cocaine
>5:05 cocaine
>5:11 coffee, Dunhills
>5:30 more ice in the Chivas
>5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
>6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
>7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, >two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)
>9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
>10:00 drops acid
>11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
>11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
>12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
>12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
>6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
>8:00 Halcyon
>8:20 sleep

>>9221149

Opinions on Hunter S. Thompson? I've just recently finished Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I found them both pretty comfy. I also have The Rum Diary sitting on the bookshelf, but I was thinking to focus on some of his essays maybe?

are writers losers who don't get laid ?

>>7398161
> Fish out of water narrative
> 20th century Candide
What the fuck are you rambling about man, Nixon is that you?

Whats Hunter S. Thompson best book.

Share your opinions of authors with names or pseudonyms that sound cool and inviting.

I start: Hunter S. Thompson

Did he actually help change journalism or was his writing merely a fad for a time of social and political unrest?