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A friend of mine once posited the hypothesis that people are either "On The Road" fans or "Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas" fans. He's definitely right in my case. The latter. Obviously.
@Neverfadingwood i think I have both in paperback from some WH Smiths deal and I have read neither.
@remotevoices Ah, fair enough. I've read both, but enjoyed "F&L" infinitly more.
@Neverfadingwood i keep meaning to get to them, but as a book addict I am always overwhelmed with choice.
@remotevoices I know what you mean. One of the joys of my past 2 years has been having access to a good university library. I'm going to miss it when I graduate.
@Neverfadingwood I am 101% certain that if he hadn't checked out during the second GWB term he'd have been cancelled to hell and back (if nothing else? The rapey bits in "Hell's Angels" hint at much worse IRL). He was still a genius, but genius and assholery are so often correlated in neurotypical straight cis men ...
@cstross You have a point.
@Neverfadingwood It's unpleasant to discover your idols had feet of clay—and sadly all too common. Too often it leads to denial and dissociation.
@cstross Yeah. I mean parts of his reporting were pretty unsavoury even in the 60s/70s, but then it was considered acceptable. Which of course doesn't mean that it should be so now.
@cstross @Neverfadingwood He certainly had events later in his life that never amounted to anything most likely because it was still a time when sexual assault still wasn't taken seriously, and I say this as someone that's read just about everything that he published, and rereads quite often "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail".
@cstross @Neverfadingwood Probably true but he was an amazing writer and not something else. By default I don't judge books by the worst thing about the writer. Sometimes people are shitty and then amazing.
@Neverfadingwood I drove to Boulder to listen to him speak one time he was a hoot.
@Neverfadingwood In law school I typed out a quote from “Fear and Loathing in the Rockies” and kept it at my desk the whole time I practiced:
“I was convinced, despite my lifelong bias to the contrary, that the Law was actually on our side. Not the cops, or the judges or the politicians -- but the actual Law, itself, as printed in the dull and musty lawbooks that we constantly had to consult because we had no other choice.”
@Neverfadingwood normally not my hero but that's perfection
@Neverfadingwood I genuinely thought that was Andrew Eldritch until i read the caption 
@Neverfadingwood I'v read everything I could find of his over my lifetime. I carried The Great Shark Hunt around with me all the time in my 30's just to dip into whilst commuting & to turn other people on to his genius. I'm a big fan of Warren Zevon as well and their friendship was always inspiring.
TOO WIERD TO LIVE AND TOO RARE TO DIE (He probably miss spelled WIRED !!)
