Was he full of shit?
yes, but he was really good at portraying all of it
>>24880892no he was full of cancers and tumors by the end of his life
He was full of drugs, so yeah probably. But also he was funny and his best books are among the finest examples of American literature.
>/lit/ hates Hunter Thompson of all things I knew you guys were limpwristed, whiny christian larper faggots but... Holy shit you're taking the contrarianism too fucking far now.
>>24882197The funniest thing about this is that so many people don't realise it's a joke.>>24882207Omg he did drugs and rode motorbikes and shot guns and drank a lot basedyy basedyy, get a job for fuck's sake.
>>24882197Is cocaine good for you?
>BEATNIK LITERATURE!?! REEEEEEEEE!!!This website has changed a lot in the last 10-15 years, and not in a good way.
>>24880892About half-full.
>>24882236Why don't you answer OP's question?
pseudo-rebel betrayed by conformist choice of aviator cuck glasses.
>>24882236what does he have to do with beatniks?
He was so cringe, taking drugs is seriously and genuinely uncool
In some ways, yeah, in other ways no. The part in Fear and Loathing when he blackpills a small town sherif about ritualistic Satantic child-sex murder cults is extremely prescient. He had an eye for seeing the truth behind the cultural revolution he helped pushed. He wasn't self-aware but could see that society was on a drastically downhill path from the idyllic picruesque society of the 50s.
>>24880892From a socio-political/ideological perspective, yes. His suicide confirmed it. You don't blow your head off in front of your family because of the Iraq War without instantly outing yourself as a disingenuous, irrational fool. But his writing, and especially his fiction work, was excellent. The Rum Diary is one of my all-time favourite novels, and it isn't even one of his most well-known ones. I also really enjoyed Hell's Angels, outside of his most recognizable work. Everything I've learned about ol' Hunter S. strikes me as him being a very lonely, angry person that needed to portray a character to represent himself to the world instead of being sincere. I respect him as a writer but pity him as a man.
>>24882197roganoid slop history
>>24882220Good for you, bad for everyone in your vicinity.
>>24882644mm'kay
>>24882758Thats what he did?
>>24882428lmao this
>>24883221Yeah.
>>24880892Read his son's book about how his whole persona was a put on, even the drug stuff was fake, he was just some nerdy drunk who seethed he didn't get to write real literature and get taken seriously.
>>24882758He killed himself bc he was in constant pain from his drug addictions and such, misinformed comment
>>24880892After watching "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" I can't help but read everything in Johnny Depp's voice.The cadence matches his writing perfectly.
>>24880892He was a blackpilled version of George Carlin. So yes and no.
>>24880892Irrelevant. Take away what you will, and leave the rest.
>>24882758>You don't blow your head off in front of your family because of the Iraq WarNot what happened and not the reason, just read his letter
>full of shitNo he was not a heroin addict
>>24883683fanboys in the thread ignored this comment conveniently, it's entirely true
>>24883683I haven't read that book you're talking about but I kinda figured it was all bullshit when I read Kingdom of Fear. It really came across as a poor attempt of self-mythologising rather than attempting to write any form of an autobiography.I don't understand why people like Thompson were bitter, they wrote fun content that is still widely remembered, was famous and was there during many notable events and rubbed shoulders with a lot of interesting people of his time. The kind of things he experienced are largely nonexistent in modern times as everything has been stripped of its character or there's too much red tape stopping you from doing something truly spontanous.
>>24883924He killed himself because he couldn't handle the guilt of what he was involved in at bohemian grove. He was allowed in to film it but couldn't tell on the elites because they'd kill all his family. He knew 911 was a false flag and was powerless to do anything about it. Suicide was the least painful option.
>>24885004take your meds
>>24884862everybody that has actually read him understands the persona was a put on. it was a gag to weird out the normies of his time and his actually worthwhile writing isn't really concerned with it at all. he was a journalist, he wrote about other people. most anons in this thread are not responding to his writing but to tiktok clips of johnny depp making funny faces.
>>24882197>4:95
>>24885612Blaze it
>>24885004he killed himself cuz writing generic "bush bad!" columns for espn dotcom or whatever was a soulless way to live
>>24885101>most anons in this thread are not responding to his writing but to tiktok clips of johnny depp making funny faces.tactical trvke. this shit's an issue all across the board. people talk about authors like tabloid figures and criticize them based on their parasocial judgement of their character that's based on shit they read or saw. just like housewives reading celebrity gossip.
>>24885743>people talk about authors like tabloid figures and criticize them based on their parasocial judgement of their character that's based on shit they read or saw. just like housewives reading celebrity gossipthat's based thoughever
Proud Highway is the best. Ralph's book about his years with Hunter is also a decent read. Haven't read Jaun' s book. Curse of the lono was also better than I expected.>>24885622He khs because he was in pain and old and originally didn't plan to live beyond 30.
>>24885747behaving like a woman is extremely unbased.
>>24882197>waits to do cocaine until he's got some alcohol in his bloodBasé
>fiction writer writes fiction?! help im losing my mind
>>24882197
>>24882758He didn't commit suicide over the Iraq war, you dunce—football season was over.
