I'm conservative but I think his stuff is great.
2007-10-25 12:04:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Absolutely great stuff. If you like him try reading William S. Burroughs and William S. Burroughs Jr. Not quite the same style, by which I mean drug-addled libertarian socialist anarchism, but still worth reading. One of my favorite quotes:
We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
2007-10-25 12:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by Bigsky_52 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People here are more likely to remember the film "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" without knowing who the author was. I'm old enough to have read the book when it came out, and I made an effort to find his "Hell's Angels" afterward. "Gonzo journalism" his style called, and whether you liked him or not (I thought he was an alcoholic gun nut), he had more than fifteen minutes of fame. A brilliant writer!
2007-10-25 20:01:27 · answer #2 · answered by Who Else? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--great book, though I'm not into all that drug stuff anymore.
He also did some great articles in Rolling Stone.
2007-10-25 19:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've read a lot of Gonzo's writing...
2007-10-25 20:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by John Doe 1st 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mrs. Thompson son ......right
2007-10-25 19:13:18 · answer #5 · answered by 1st Buzie 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you realize that he claims to have witnnessed incredible depravity at Bohemian Grove and was ready to write about it- just before his 'suicide'(?)
2007-10-25 19:10:26 · answer #6 · answered by celvin 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He did American literature a great service when he blew his LSD riddle brains out.
2007-10-25 19:07:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 8⤋
who?
2007-10-25 19:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋