![]() He was a hardcore alcoholic and coke head that couldn't travel without shipping massive quantities of coke across the country to feed his habit, and had to be detoxed from booze after his surgeries in the hospital. He called him a physiological freak that had some super-human tolerance for nearly everything. After a lifetime of booze so heavy he nearly died having surgery from detoxing. Hunter's own doctor is quoted that he had no liver damage. Rolling Stone's oral history ( GONZO: The Life of Hunter S Thompson) basically included everyone that ever knew him in his life as an intimate suggesting that his drug and booze intake was inconceivable and he did it day in and day out. Or if you just want drug-craziness, The Curse of Lono is still pretty good, but you're missing the god damned point. He's a genuinely insightful man if you're a fan of literature, rather than rock star personalities. It denigrates the work of a great writer to "he's that guy who did a bunch of drugs and wrote that Las Vegas book about drugs."Įdit: Fucking read 'On the Campaign Trail '72' and 'The Great Shark Hunt', and 'Kingdom of Fear'. Honestly, this kind of Thompson fandom pisses me off. His early sixties foreign correspondence from South America is some of the best shit he ever wrote, and for the most part has absolutely nothing to do with drugs, or was written sober. Honestly, his drug use is about the least interesting thing about him. I can imagine he did this one day, in particular, but to pretend this is his regular schedule is just buying into the dumb-ass myth of the legions of "fans" who only ever read Fear and Loathing, or worse, just watched the movie. Yeah, I came here to say this is probably total bullshit. i always wanted to know what that is about. edit: thanks a lot for reddit gold, stranger. prepare yourself for the fact that you will lose more then you will gain. if you glorify drugs and really want to try them out, prepare yourself for a ride, which will not be what you might expect. try to get hold of stuff anita thompson wrote about hunter if you really want to get to know him. Tl dr: dont read that shitty book by that crappy writer or believe anything that comes from her quotes, its all made up. losing this naivety and gaining this new carving never known before is something most dont speak about. and years later you will look back and understand that, while its fun at the time, you lose something you will never get back. i joked and glorified his behavior too in my younger years. he was a strange man for sure, but i believe he was so so much more than just the raging addict.Īnd in all seriousness, its also nothing funny. he also had sometimes the feeling he had to life up to that image. but also that he had that image pressed onto him if he wanted it or not. While he still was a notorious drugfiend and an addict in the time between the deadlines. anita thompson said, he worte his best stuff in the last years of his life and everything was written completly sober. ![]() all that was on the blog) sometimes he would write high, especially in the early years, but he had to put to much work in it, the day after, because most of the time it was pure horseshit. ( and there are hilarious pieces of text about him, writing on mescaline, where he was suprised how well he could spell stuff. She also answered a lot of the most frequented questions and one of them ofc was: how high was he during his writing?Īnd as far as i can recall she said he never wrote high. some of the text bits were even unreleased i think. She would speak very hornestly about him and released small bits of his text, or would hint out great articles or passages of his books. but that blog was truly great for every fan of hunter. (im tired and lazy and did a half assed google search only). this entry reminded me, after a long time, to check it out again. I was a long time reader of anita thompson owl farm blog. someone bigger then life who could deliver the stories she was looking for. and while she was not getting the stuff she was looking for she nvented a hunter who never existed. while hunter totally refused to speak with her she just spoke to associates, friends and acquaintances. Jean Carroll who imo wrote the worst of HST biographies of all time. Alright im sorry to be that guy, but this is simply not true.
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