Hunter S. Thompson Dead.

Duke is renowned as a perfect larger-than-life portrayal of Thompson, even in today's eulogies. Despite the fact that Duke has never been a journalist!

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Hunters' death is more to me than a couple posts. Im involved in several others DU included, that have reached hundreds.

Please dont let my tech friends let me down.

Sorry for bad typeing, too much Wild Turkey.

My girlfriend woke me up at 3:00 AM to tell me that Hunter Thompson has killed himself.

[i]Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail[/i] is still one of my favourite books of all time - it's up there with Kerouac's work.

R.I.P. HST - you are immortal. :(

I don't even know what to type...

I've come to the realization that HST has influenced the development of western civilization to a greater extent than we may realize. The man was always there in the background shaping and sharing our world for what it was - with no regard for ethics - just pure untamed information - setting the scene for what it was and what it felt like to actually be there.

Too young to die. Too stupid to live.

Keep off the ether kids.

He'll be missed.

Incidentally I thought this thread was going to be about the withdrawl of funding for the hubble space telescope.

I'd never heard of HST, but his works definitely sound like interesting reading. I think I'll check with my local library... and if not there... my good friend the net.

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I bought Fear and Loathing in America at a used book store about four months ago. I thought it was one of his normal style books that I never had seen. It is however not. It is a collection of all his correspondence with publishers, friends etc. He is exactley the same as his writing portrays in his personal correspondence.

To call him your friend must have been terrifying, exciting, frustrating, and a slew of other feelings.

The sheep that call themselves journalists today will never have a legacy like Thompson or Mike Royko because they never put anything of themselves into their work. Someone said today that Thompson would have made a good bloger. Well, I agree, but it sounds like they are trying to "kick him off the press plane" again now that he is dead.

I have not been able to obtain various works of HST for the past several years because they've been out of print.

The unfortunate situation is that they will all probably be released in new editions within the next year or so. What a sick machine this world is.

:(

Dawg

That I am not the only one who appreciates the works of HST. Me and a few friends of mine always get the "who's that?!?!" response when we go off on an HST tangent.

Thanks guys. :)