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What do you guys think of Hunter S. Thompson? Could you guys

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What do you guys think of Hunter S. Thompson?
Could you guys recommend me similiar authors?

Also general drug literature thread I guess
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He was Americana in human form and a damned fine writer to boot.
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>He was Americana in human form and a damned fine writer to boot.

no, that would be WS Burroughs.
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>>9682757

Read "Doors of Perceptopn" / "Heaven and Hell" by Aldous Huxley, two of the most /lit/ essays on drugs ever written
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Read Confessions of an English Opium Eater
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I don't understand why he receives such high praise he's the perfect example of a champagne socialist, and I've also noticed the people that praise him also repeatedly criticize Fox News for being bias.
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>>9682757
I've only ever read Fear and Loathing by him, and that was years ago. But I remember thoroughly enjoying it, and really enjoying his writing style.
Perhaps I'll read another of his soon.
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>>9684747
HST doesn't pretend to be unbiased. Part of the appeal is his disregard for objectivity in order to find truth in other vistas. Fox News on the other hand actively spreads misinformation so hillbillies will continue to vote for their sponsors. They certainly don't care about Truth.
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>>9682757
I think Pynchon, Kerouac, Burroughs, Capote, and Bukowski.
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>>9684747
also possibly an occultist and snuff film enthusiast. he definitely was one sick puppy.
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>>9682757
Absolute trash, a wannabe Burroughs with half the intelligence and a fourth of the vocabulary.

At age 40, the man still thought it was hilarious to string together a number of "bad" words and make a sentence out of it.
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