I just finished reading Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Where do I go from here in regards to Hunter S. Thompson?

I just finished reading Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Where do I go from here in regards to Hunter S. Thompson?

>reading degenerate liberals

Try Mein Kampf instead.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

I think the rest didn't impress me that much

You grow up and stop reading Thompson.

Hells Angels was good.

He had a few really good books but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is his finest work and it omly gets worse and he becomes a caricature of himself.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hell's Angels

The Curse of Lono

The Kentucky Derby etc.

I'm in the process of acquiring the Gonzo Papers, hope to read them across summer.

Ignore these people, they barely skimmed his works and only got "lol drugs so random" out of them. Pitiful.

If you are looking for something by Hunter S. Thompson go for hells angels

His other stuff is pretty politcal, take that into consideration before reading anything besides Hells Angels or the rum diary

The rum diary is pretty good, not a noteworthy piece of literature though

I'll just go by what I personally have read

Fear and Loathing: Campaign Trail '72 is pretty much in the same spirit as Las Vegas, you'll enjoy it.

Hell's Angels is more of a straightforward journalistic effort but it's still a really entertaining and compelling read.

The Rum Diary is a nice breezy novel if you're a person who enjoys traveling and drinking and journalism, kind of like a Hemingway novel. Like said, it's not particularly noteworthy, but if you like Thompson's work it only makes sense to give it a stop.

HST was hardly even a liberal. He was just critical of Nixon, which isn't exactly an unreasonable stance seeing how things turned out.

Nah he was pretty liberal. Pro abortion, pro minorities, etc. I believe when he ran for Sheriff he ran as "the freak candidate". For those days anyway, he was pretty lefty.

Campaign trail 72'
to give his works the respect they are due, take some Rx amphetamines and a hallucinogen of your choosing so you can read his shit in a frenzied, distorted, headspace.

Ah yes the Freak Power ticket. Thompson was pulling all his strings and trying to get all the freaks to come out of the woodworks and vote for him. If I remember correctly the campaign poster had a fist clutching peyote buttons.

It seemed farcical but something tells me if he had been elected Thompson totally would have renamed Aspen to Fat City ha

He wrote the Rum Diary at 22.

He was pro-gun, at least.

YOU CANNOT PARK ON THE SIDEWALK

WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN

Shed your hipster hype badge and go for the extra credit by reading "The Revolt of the Cockroach People"

>bringing up Oscar Zeta Acosta for the first time in board history and NOT mentioning his masterpiece

>Where do I go from here in regards to Hunter S. Thompson?

To Tom Wolfe, who did it better.

rum diaries is a pretty comfy book desu senpai

tell me more of this litnomaly

Alt right fedoras are the worst

two paths

1. read hell's angels > read campaign trail > read the great shark hunt

2. watch the movie > buy an HST poster for your college dorm > go to a costume party as him > tell everyone he is your favorite writer > do 2g of shrooms and tell everyone you love psychedelics

I love how /pol/ has polarized itself to the point that not outright hating all non-whites automatically makes you a liberal

HST considered himself a classical liberal though
He was a kind of libertarian socialist expressing weirdly almost Randian individualist views but believing firmly in the social services of the govt.

I know very little about HST, I just found it a bit jarring that "pro minority" is now considered a sign of leftism, regardless of his actual beliefs.

Right, I do see what you mean

Read better authors

>being pro minority now makes you a liberal

This is how bad the /pol/ cancer has gotten.

He was a marxist, not a liberal

This was in the 1970's though. Context. Did you read the thread at all?