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Colin
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I've only read Fear and Loathing from him but... *glances at bookshelf* ...I have more choices. 
Terrible news.  Then again, it didn't surprise me that Hunter would choose to go out like this. Certainly less so than other celebrities. |
alte Hexe
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Yes, and I hope to god that more people will learn about him. |
Arwon
Posts: 263/506 |
"There goes one of God's own prototypes...too weird to live, too rare to die."
HST was one of my few true heroes. I suppose this is how normal people felt when JFK or Princess Di or Kurt Cobain died. I want to down a bottle of Wild Turkey and go out and shoot at rocks, I want to howl and rage and cause a crazy righteous shit-fight - fuck them, the god-damn brutal pigs, we are right and good and we will prevail! I won't, but that's the sort of feelings HST stirs. The world has lost one of its purest and most righteous beacons of righteous sanity.
Like thousands or millions of others, I wanted to be like him. Fearless, angry, brilliant, iconic. I think we all secretly thought the mad bastard was immortal. But alas, even warriors have to die. |
alte Hexe
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Originally posted by Toxic
I never read it.
What exactly was it about? (I heard it was really odd though)
Drugs, and the trips resulting from. |
Toxic
Posts: 2464/2857 |
I never read it.
What exactly was it about? (I heard it was really odd though) |
alte Hexe
Posts: 3065/5458 |
Hells Angels was better.
RIP my counter-culture friend! |
drjayphd
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Sheeeeeeee-it. 
According to his son, gonzo journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson shot himself at home Sunday night. He was 67.
As your local mod (of another forum, but whatever), I advise you to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. NOW.  |
