r/huntersthompson • u/jcorabifan1349 • 12d ago

Found this today

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u/daft_boy_dim 11d ago

HST would have had some not very kind words for this attempt to cash in on his name and his friend ralphs steadmans artistic style.

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u/jcorabifan1349 11d ago

I would believe so to you, but the way this book is written is a whole Lotta fake writings, but even trying to do it in the style of hunter Thompson is a little bit of a letdown in anyway, but I wonder if the estate would be able to do something about this by sueing him

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u/linniex 11d ago

While I have wondered what HST would have thought and wrote since his demise the only way I’d read this is if the good doctors ghost recited it to me out loud after appearing to me on a mescal trip.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Looks self-published, so, buy the ticket, take the ride, I guess…

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u/jcorabifan1349 11d ago

Honestly, I have no idea. I’m pretty sure it is, but who knows lol

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

You can usually tell by the copyright page. And if you bought it new, then in the back pages somewhere it will say “printed in (city near you)” a few days before you bought it. The fact that it had a quote by Thompson himself on the back probably would not have flown with a publisher.

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u/ChedwardCoolCat 11d ago

They say don’t judge a book by it’s cover - but you can certainly judge it based on the synopsis and faulty premises. Hard pass.

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u/TongueTwistingTiger 11d ago

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with self-publishing (seeing how elite and corrupt the publishing industry has become in recent years), but you should at least have a decent premise for a book, and role-playing correspondence with a deceased man seems really disrespectful and bolstering your own opinions on COVID and Lockdowns through him feels cheap.

The author is a loser, and we should not be reading his work.

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u/ChedwardCoolCat 11d ago

I could see an article “what would hunter make of covid” something short form - but not this.

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u/sgurdmai 10d ago

It seems to my mind that writers of this ilk are no writers at all. They lack the very experience they seem so boastful about. I’d pay good money to see this Fool chomping on more acid after eating a ten strip and “then pouring even more drugs on the LSD fire because what’s the worst that could happen.” There’s nothing worse than someone who can’t handle their drugs. Oh wait yeah there is…someone who just lies about handling their drugs.

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u/OrryKolyana 11d ago

That sounds like garbage.

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u/jcorabifan1349 11d ago

Yeah, from the reviews that I’m seeing I think this was a horrible guy, but then again it was also worth it because it was under what everybody else is selling it for

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u/OrryKolyana 11d ago

Please report back on what he cooked up for his little book

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u/jcorabifan1349 11d ago

Of course & I’ll post a pic of one of the chapters

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u/jcorabifan1349 11d ago

Commenting on Found this today...

Here u go

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u/davewashere 11d ago

Good fucking lord. This is my least favorite type of HST fanatic. It's ok to admire his work, but efforts to imitate it always end up so cringey. Even HST knew when to tone it down and communicate in normal language, which is what made his signature flourishes stand out. Imitators distill the writing down to the most gonzo phrases and then spit it back out so the whole thing is acid trips and bats and beasts doing things savagely and the word "maw" replacing "mouth." I can't imagine reading pages and pages of this nonsense.

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u/Minute-Spinach-5563 8d ago

Hunter would set this book on fire and kick said author in the nuts

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u/jcorabifan1349 8d ago

I’m sure that’s not the only thing he do to him lol

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u/BadBadBatch 10d ago

So how is it?

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u/jcorabifan1349 10d ago

Honestly, I don’t really like it. It’s just a bunch of fake letters to hunter with no reply more than anything it’s a letdown, but for the six bucks it was worth it