Re: What are you reading now?
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:53 pmKingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
It's funny I bought this Hunter S. Thompson book around the time I moved into my new place and it ended up in a pile of books that went untouched for about five years. A few months ago I stumbled across it to my surprise not even remembering buying it in the first place and excitedly began reading.
I have to admit despite my limited reading of Thompson's work I rate Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as probably my favourite movie and my brother and I spent years quoting lines from the movie at each other. Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro were fantastic in it. Now I realise Depp was playing a somewhat exaggerated version of Thompson but it was hilarious none the less and the real person became a fascination to me.
This book which was released in 2003 a couple of years before his death is more a loose collection of letters and stories from his life acting somewhat as a memoir with a focus on his rebellion against authority.
It was an interesting read but perhaps not essential reading for a HST fan but one story near the end about paranoid hallucinations he was having later in his life was quite sad.
It's funny I bought this Hunter S. Thompson book around the time I moved into my new place and it ended up in a pile of books that went untouched for about five years. A few months ago I stumbled across it to my surprise not even remembering buying it in the first place and excitedly began reading.
I have to admit despite my limited reading of Thompson's work I rate Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as probably my favourite movie and my brother and I spent years quoting lines from the movie at each other. Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro were fantastic in it. Now I realise Depp was playing a somewhat exaggerated version of Thompson but it was hilarious none the less and the real person became a fascination to me.
This book which was released in 2003 a couple of years before his death is more a loose collection of letters and stories from his life acting somewhat as a memoir with a focus on his rebellion against authority.
It was an interesting read but perhaps not essential reading for a HST fan but one story near the end about paranoid hallucinations he was having later in his life was quite sad.
