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Re: Hunter S. Thompson Update
Posted: 2005-07-15, 2:55 am
Mr.Plug
Posts: 88
Location: Arizona, USA
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As the result of a thread on Hunter Thompson some time ago (when he died), I'm finally getting around to reading, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". I'm enjoying reading this so much I'm getting depressed that it will come to an end soon!
I highly recommend this book, as did many others back in the original thread. I would think it would be classic reading for many of us on this board, who enjoy the kinds of amusements that we do...
Is that for real about the Amsterdam version? That would be great!
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Re: Hunter S. Thompson Update
Posted: 2005-07-15, 4:32 pm
Rainer
Posts: 85
Location: Los Angeles
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I first read "Fear and Loathing in Las vegas" when I was in college. It was first printed in Rolling Stone magazine (back when the magazine was about drugs and rock) around 1970 or 1971. At the time I believed every word to be true. However, I recently re-read it, and now I think that the good Doctor added a lot of embellishment and exaggeration to make the story more enjoyable and dramatic. But that doesn't take anything away from his accomplishment. The book was a classic of the time. Also, like another poster said, Thompson's Hells Angels book is a n amazing document, perhaps the best thing he ever wrote. And it was also one of his first books and helped to develop his writing style.
_________________ blaze one for the nation
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Re: Hunter S. Thompson Update
Posted: 2005-07-15, 10:57 pm
attymn
Posts: 111
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The last time I went to the Dam, Hunter had just died, and Rolling Stone devoted the whole isse to him. I brought it along with me and read it after smoking some good weed and taking some magic mushrooms. Fear and Loathing In Las vegas is a devastingly great book about one thing: the end of the American Dream and the end of the idealism of the '60's in the early '70's of Nixon. For good reasons, people remember all the crazy drug scenes, but I re-read it recently, and it's amazing how often that the main point is articulated. This is why the movie couldn't capture the magic of the book, and it's also why another Fear and Loathing in__________ cannot be made.
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