I find myself wondering what Hunter S. Thompson could have done with the fact that he and Sandra Dee died on the same day. I think he could have melded that into a pretty funny piece.
I never could get all the way through any of his books after the one on the Hell's Angels, because they just seemed too over the top to me; although, I did enjoy the one on the '72 campaign, except that I wanted it to be literally true, and I was quite sure that not all of it was. If I were to start rereading some of them now they probably would be pretty tame compared to some of the 'realities' that have come out of the dark, and come into power. What a contribution Fear and Loathing in Old Age would have been to the science of gerontology in a post-Social Security, post-medicare era! Now somebody else is going to have to do it.
David
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