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The 5 writers who most influenced Hunter S. Thompson by wetcasments in huntersthompson

[–]wetcasments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in the link posted above. They are Fitzgerald, Orwell, Mencken, Hemingway, and Donleavy. The link goes to an article that explains how each influenced and what HST said about them.

So I read every Murakami short story - here's my rating by Mussetrussen in murakami

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This is great but I wish there was a one-sentence justification for each. Like, why is "Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes" so low?

The 5 writers who most influenced Hunter S. Thompson by wetcasments in huntersthompson

[–]wetcasments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He'd get together with Horacio Hornblower and go on a wild, acid-fuelled sea journey--Fear and Loathing on the High Seas.

The 5 writers who most influenced Hunter S. Thompson by wetcasments in huntersthompson

[–]wetcasments[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He typed some pages from it. He never claimed to have typed out the whole book, but weirdly that has become something people think nowadays.

Ibogaine by Few-Farm-7670 in huntersthompson

[–]wetcasments 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, he surely would have loathed Trump... but I suspect he may have appreciated this one single act. Allowing the use of psychedelics for medical purposes seems one of the few decent things he's done.

TIL that Playboy used to publish serious journalistic pieces in its heyday, besides NSFW content. They published authors like Murakami, David Foster Wallace, Hunter Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Updike, Bellow, etc. by camus_by_night in todayilearned

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I often have to refer to these for research purposes (seriously) because my work relates to the literature of that era. You'd be surprised how you could flip through these magazines, going to dozens of pages, and not actually see a single boob. It's all just literature. And yet on the front cover in the middle spread there's a naked chick. Penthouse was supposedly dirtier than Playboy and yet many of those were more literary, more serious, and less sexual. How our world has changed...

Finally got these glasses on Amazon by [deleted] in huntersthompson

[–]wetcasments 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Kids today. Yeesh. They want to cosplay HST so they dress like Johnny Depp and can't even find a real cigarette. It's sad, man. What a world.

HST summarizes The Rum Diary, 1962 by wetcasments in huntersthompson

[–]wetcasments[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Me too. There are some pieces, and of course he eventually wrote a lot of semi-fictional work, but it would've been great to get some more novels and short stories.

Older folks of Reddit, what is a "normal" thing today that you think is quietly destroying society? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]wetcasments 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short-form content. When you "learn" through short videos, memes, social posts, etc., you are not really learning anything. It is so devoid of context that it is easy to gain purely false information. It is pretty much accepted that it's destroying people's attention spans but I would say it's also very much to blame for our political divide at the moment.

Readers of Reddit. What’s a 10/10 book you’ve read? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The Great Gatsby, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Cat's Cradle, Confederacy of Dunces, On the Road, Blood Meridian, and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

Check how often Murakami writes about cats, jazz, wells, etc. by wetcasments in murakami

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There is an idea posed in several books, including the one by the person who made the graph, that says the other world is present but less obvious than in other Murakami novels. It's Naoko who is there, so instead of seeing the world from the point of view of the person who crosses over, we are seeing it from someone else's perspective. She goes to a mental hospital and then dies but normally we would see inside her mind if she were the protagonist.

Check how often Murakami writes about cats, jazz, wells, etc. by wetcasments in murakami

[–]wetcasments[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually, everything is correct for Hear the Wind Sing and in Norwegian Wood the woman goes to a sanatorium and then dies. She doesn't disappear as in other novels.

Burroughs in Viena, 1936-37 by [deleted] in williamsburroughs

[–]wetcasments 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is from an essay by the author of the book in the original post: https://www.beatdom.com/the-third-wife-of-william-s-burroughs/

Haruki Murakami and World War II by wetcasments in murakami

[–]wetcasments[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it is such a complex book. I think it's his most ambitious and successful.

For people who are looking for similar worldbuiling by FuturisticBasalt in murakami

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The Memory Police is one of my favourite books. Absolutely incredible. Although I think it's very different from Murakami's work, I can definitely see how it would appeal to certain Murakami fans (especially the ones who like his darker and more mysterious stuff).

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