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Fear & Loathing In LV Anonymous Fri Jul 13 19:09:31 2018 No.11457185 [Reply] [Original]

So I've seen the movie and I've read the book and I am just not sure I understand the critical acclaim. Aside from some comedic value I can't see either as anything more than some drug addled ramblings and a couple nostalgic quotes about the 60's. Thompson sharts a few paragraphs about some sort of vauge backward true American dream here and there but I never really understood what kind of point he was trying to make with this story.
I like LSD myself but even so I feel like I am failing to recognize some sort of nuance here. Is this JUST a book for Woodstock era burnouts or an I just dumb?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 20:39:57 2018 No.11457577 Fuck this board is slow.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 20:42:26 2018 No.11457587 It's like a less interesting Naked Lunch except it's a true story and therefor better lol :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 20:42:56 2018 No.11457590 >>11457185 Overrated Boomer sophistry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 21:38:43 2018 No.11457832 >>11457587 Anybody who uses faces on 4chan does not have a valid opinion. >>11457590 That's how I felt but I hoped I was wrong

Anonymous Fri Jul 13 21:50:24 2018 No.11457899

>>11457185
Product of it's time.

Plus HST wrote stream of consciousness style, and didn't entirely suck giant donkey cocks, y'know, like most things written in that style do.

He was foremost a journalist, a sort of ferocious rebel journalist with huge hairy balls, and he beat his wife every day and liked to shoot things.

Johnny Depp, who knew him and lived with him for some months preparing for his movie role spoke of him as a God.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 22:00:54 2018 No.11457968 >>11457899 >Johnny Depp, who knew him and lived with him for some months preparing for his movie role spoke of him as a God. That's incredibly interesting desu. I will have to see if I can't find any sort of interview on depp's experience with him.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 22:07:29 2018 No.11457998 >>11457968 Depp actually organized his funeral - his ashes were shot out of a giant cannon.

Anonymous Fri Jul 13 22:36:03 2018 No.11458175

>>11457185
The drug shenanigans and the crazy ramblings are kind of the plot drivers for me. But I absolutely lose my shit every time he makes a retarded statement about God or the American dream. I enjoy him for his comedic value and I'm amazed he is an actual person with such a skewed personal perspective.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 22:37:55 2018 No.11458186 can't you people just have a good time every once in a while

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 23:14:54 2018 No.11458358 >>11458186

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 23:42:46 2018 No.11458458 >>11457185 Could you not trouble yourself to spell out Las Vegas you lazy fuck?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 23:45:35 2018 No.11458468 >>11457185 Why did Obama have HST eliminated? Couldn't they have bonded over drugs?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 23:48:00 2018 No.11458473 File: 25 KB, 337x354, 1530249760786.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11457185 >that pic when 4chan was serious business....

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 23:50:25 2018 No.11458480 >>11457832 >Anybody who uses faces on 4chan does not have a valid opinion. Smiley faces are in now faggot. I've never seen nigs or redditors use them, therefore they are chill ;)

Anonymous Sat Jul 14 00:03:31 2018 No.11458521

>>11458480
4chan has never been about what is in, and if anything intentionally the opposite. SJW libqueens live that kind of shit and the kikes that feed them run the global media. So no, smilies are obnoxious trash.
>Inb4: /pol/
Nope.
>>11458458
I was born there, I can spell it how the fuck I want.
>>11458186
I wish, anxiety and clinical depression get in the way a lot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 00:04:34 2018 No.11458523 >>11458521 Love that* sorry mobile

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 00:48:12 2018 No.11458637 You have to listen to the tapes he recorded. The scene of him asking the waitress about the american dream is A M A Z I N G.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 00:52:33 2018 No.11458651 >>11458637 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJoDOo9gpzU

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 01:01:42 2018 No.11458679 >>11458637 >>11458651 Oh my goodness thank you. This whole chapter makes so much more sense in this context now. I read it as being a lot lot more sinister and confused.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 01:05:06 2018 No.11458689 >>11458521 by in I meant out m8. And no they are not liked by kikes since they can't skim money off of simple ASCII text smileys. They want you to use the proprietary graphics based ones.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 01:48:20 2018 No.11458791 >>11458521 >anxiety and clinical depression get in the way a lot. and this comes after a rather paranoid comment about leftwingers/Jews regarding SMILEY FACES I don't think it's /just/ mental illness. maybe you should take a break from 4ch

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