Author Topic: The good Dr.H (Read 344 times)

trax1 · « **on:** January 31, 2008, 01:09:11 PM »

So any other fans for the great Hunter S. Thompson here. If so whats your favorite book of his, mine would be "The Rum Diary".

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2008, 01:39:03 PM »

I was sort of a closet fan of his in my younger years...then he blew his brains out. Selfish bastard to do such a thing. I'm sure his family appreciated it.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2008, 03:27:54 AM »

Hehe. If it hadn`t been for Sonny taking pity on him he would have been gone long before that.

JB88 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2008, 03:50:43 AM »

<------um.

i'd have to say that my favorite is proud highway: saga of a desperate southern gentleman.

for those of you unfamiliar with the book it is a veritable tome of his correspondence both too and from others from 55 - 67.

brilliant. hillarious. revealing.

i know it's not fiction...but it may as well be.

Yknurd · « **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2008, 06:05:16 AM »

Serious question.

Hunter never has appealed to me before. Why is it worth reading?

Intrigue me.

trax1 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2008, 01:02:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Yknurd
Serious question.

Hunter never has appealed to me before. Why is it worth reading?

Intrigue me.

He's just a very interesting writer to read, he has a way of telling a story that will intrigue you. All his books, or atleast all the ones I've read are non-fiction, there about his life and he's lead a very interesting life.

trax1 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2008, 01:07:51 PM »

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Originally posted by JB88
i'd have to say that my favorite is proud highway: saga of a desperate southern gentleman.

for those of you unfamiliar with the book it is a veritable tome of his correspondence both too and from others from 55 - 67.

brilliant. hillarious. revealing.

Yeah I've read "Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist"

It's basically the same thing, correspondence between him and other people, long read but good.

WMLute · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2008, 01:43:34 PM »

He had a weekly column called "Hey, Rube" for ESPN.com's "Page 2". The column ran from 2000 to shortly before his death in 2005.

THIS page has some of his stuff you can read.

When he died I went back and re-read every article.

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The incredible dumbness of Sportswriters is a subject I thought I'd exhausted a long time ago -- but let's hit it one more time, just for the fun of it. ... I have described them as "a rude & brainless subculture of fascist drunks" and "more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out of the carcass of a dead animal. ..."

good stuff