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Thoughts?

>> No.20382603

About what?

>> No.20382608

thoughts.

>> No.20382609

>>20382597
I was initially skeptical because I hate junkies but Thompson is quite the unique writer, it’s weird and trippy but in a good way, and he’s more insightful than his public persona would lead you to believe.

>> No.20382706

fun more than anything.
As if I ever was gonna understand a disillusioned ex hippy seething about Nixon anyways.

>> No.20382755

>>20382597
Dude weed lmao: the book

>> No.20382760

Film is better

>> No.20382774

>>20382597
bought this shit about a year ago and still waiting for the 'right' mood to actually pick it up and read

>> No.20382831

>>20382597
One of the most entertaining books I've read. Finished it in one sitting. Way better than any beat literature. A kind of stylistic masterpiece in a weird way.

>> No.20382840

This is the book that started the adrenochrome meme

>> No.20382928

>>20382840
The doors of perception mentions adrenochrome 20 years earlier.

>> No.20382993

>>20382928
Did Huxley claim that the only way adrenochrome could be obtained was from the adrenal gland of a living human being?
Thompson claimed it was. It was a bullshit story about occultists in The Process church and human sacrifice. Even back in his day adrenochrome could be chemically synthesized. No need for an adrenal gland ripped out of a living human being.
The story still persists today with claims that the Clintons among others (Lady Gaga and some Serbian performance artist) are adrenochrome addicts and occultists.
Thompson started the adrenochrome/human sacrifice nonsense
He just made it up

>> No.20382996

>>20382597
Fun as fuck. Wish I could read it for the first time, to be honest.
The film honestly almost beats it, if it wasn't for the book's final chapter.

>> No.20383019

>>20382597
Very fun and surprisingly insightful at certain moments.

>> No.20383638

>>20382597
Laughed reading this more than Catch-22 or the other supposedly funny books

>> No.20384384

>>20382597
One of the funniest books I have read. Thompson’s style is great for a quick read.

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>> No.20385280

>>20382597
I liked the movie, but it is not even close to doing this book justice. Its far more than "drugs lmao" and Thompson even has a melancholic and sceptical outlook on all of this trippy shit he is doing in the end. He basically admits that the whole hippie movement where he adopted his "habits" was just a huge meme in the end