Re: Weird
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 09 Jan 1999 11:32:32 -0500 (EST)
I'm trying to even come close to GUESSING what amazon.com (a wonderful
online bookstore with a host of morons that will comment on any book)
might see as some commonality between Hunter S. Thompson and Catcher in
the Rye.
I've only read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Hunter was
the father of "gonzo" journalism. The aforementioned book is essentially
an irreverent account written in the first person by a journalist
traveling to Las Vegas to cover something. The book was so entirely
taken up with drug humor that I have forgotten what event was being
covered. It seemed like a cross desert motorcycle race figured in there,
and a convention for law enforcement officers combating drug use was in
there.
If you happen to be on grass or acid, or have recently been, the book's a
riot. Otherwise, it's pretty adolescent.
But what does it have in common with Catcher? It's irreverent and
written in the first person. That's all I can think of. But it is much
closer to journalism than any kind of literary fiction I've ever read,
and when you look beneath the surface of that book there's not very much
there. I won't say there's nothing there at all. Just not very much.
Jim
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