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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Hunter S. Thompson book defended as a genuinely politically relevant parody of drug-abuse-as-personality mindset, unfairly maligned as just being about people getting fucked up.

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"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is unfairly maligned as just a story about people getting fucked up when really that applies to his later writing. F&L is a genuinely politically relevant parody of the mindset of drug-abuse-as-personality that HST later succumbed to."
What writers do you *genuinely* enjoy as a guilty pleasure? · u/buffordsclifford · ↑41 · 2022-09-25
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is unfairly maligned as just a story about people getting fucked up when really that applies to his later writing. F&L is a genuinely politically relevant parody of the mindset of drug-abuse-as-personality that HST later succumbed to."
What writers do you *genuinely* enjoy as a guilty pleasure? · u/buffordsclifford · ↑41 · 2022-09-25
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