Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts
Jim Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:36:43 -0400
Well, he may be :) We are talking the same Tom Wolfe, right? Bonfire of
the Vanities?
Thanks for the title, I'll hunt it down sometime. I know reading ONE
book by any author is a bit unfair so far as forming some kind of opinion
of them...
Jim Rovira
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Thor Cameron
<my_colours@hotmail.com> writes:
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>>Gawd I wish I could share anyone's enthusiasm for Hunter S. Thompson.
> I
>>admit I've only read...eh...the Las Vegas thing. What was it? Fear
>and
>>Loathing in Las Vegas. There you go.
>
>Try Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail. Great stuff. I love
>Thompson
>because he reminds me, in a very in-your-face way, not to trust the
>illusions that others set up around me. Pynchon does this in a more
>high-brow way, as does Rand, but it's important to me to remember to
>question everything, & HST does it in a most audacious way.
>I'm sorry, can't hang with Wolfe. It seem to me the only thing he's
>saying
>is: "I'm Tomas Wolfe. Shut up and get me a double martini."
>He's just WAY to in love with himself.
>
>Thor
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