/lit/ - Literature

Well, let's have a thread on the man.

Read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and loved it, and am currently reading The Rum Diary, which is alright.

What have you read by him, and what's your view on his stances and other politcal stuff?

What did you think of his work /lit/? Overrated? Interesting?

How do you feel about Hunter S. Thompson, /lit/?

Read Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Great!) and currently reading through The Rum Diary, which is alright.

Which are his other good books?

Hunter S Thompson, Bukowski, Hemingway, Irvine Welsh.
What style would these authors go by, if any?
Or am I just obsessed with winos?
More authors like this would be appreciated.

So i've started Fear and Loathing on the Campaign trail, and I don't want to sound like an ignorant asshole, but Hunter S. Thompson is ACTUALLY a very good writer. I love his style, his frantic, disjointed pacing, his imagery is weird and twisted (which is to be expected for someone who love psys as much as he did) but he seems to have such a firm, vice-like grip on reality for some drug-crazed outsider. Which he wasn't, but, as I said, I was ignorant.

Did/does anyone else find this surprising?

Giants over Green Bay, 3 points.

How bout it big guy?

Where de stash at?

discuss

/lit/ n00b here, just wanted to know what /lit/ thinks of Hunter S Thompson.

Today is the 7th anniversary of Thompson's death.

How about you provide an example?

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>>1850645

What does /lit/ think of this man and his writing?

>>1371859

wow, what a revolutionary and deep thinker you are

>>1068816
papa?

>>1015069
You're just so clever.

This is spam country.

What does /lit/ think of this mofo?

/lit/, i was sent here and told that maybe you are the last people on earth that can help me.

I have my final exams in 7 hours, and I need to figure out some stuff about hunter S. Thompson, as this is my special topic in English (im from Austria).

I was supposed to read "Fear and Loathing at the Watergate", "Fear and Loathing in Washington" and "Fear and Loathing in Limbo" (apart from other articles), but didn't.

I don't know JACK about what these articles are, no online summaries available, I don't have any clue what to do.

Can anyone help me?
Has anyone read any of these articles?

I'm in desperate need for help.

"Let's fuck."

"A DEATH IN THE FAMILY"
"Throughout the centuries, the red fox has left a record symbolizing cunningnes, sagacity, and courage...it has left a mark on the pages of literature and legend, even to modern slang, which applies the name to sly, sharp-witted people: for example, "he is a foxy fellow", or "he Foxed me."
-New Hunter's Encyclopedia

Well folks, let me tell you a story about the red fox, and how i came to know him. It is a tale of treachery and violence rarely encoutered in a family newspaper-or even by me, in my own life, which has not been entirely free of these things.
But even dumb brutes can learn, and i have longs since quit even violence, which i used to enjoy as a sport (but passed when i realized that not everybody feels that way, and some people really want to hurt you).
Vengence is the same way. It was fun to plot and talk about, but the real thing required more time and energy than being saddled with a terminal desease, and not even the best vengence ever paid the rent.
The english language is not crowded with words beginning with the letter "V" that suggest anything but trouble. After violence and vengence, there is also vulgar, vicious, victim, vermin, vain, vacant, vile, vampire....the list is long, with not a lot of smiles.
Right. And nevermind these arcane drifts of language. We will leave them to villains and vissmongers like Edwin Newman and Robin MacNeil.
What we are talking about now is the hideous death in the life of a red fox, considered by many experts to be one of the smartest beasts in nature.