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Kana -> RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... (12/24/2011 11:05:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
That's interesting: you almost never see Hell's Angels cited as anybody's favourite Thompson, which is a shame as it's an excellent piece of journalism. Written with a lot more self control than anything he's published since, put it that way...
One of many reasons I like it-plus it's HST kinda inchoate, and I always love watching something new and unusual cohere and actualize.
It's why I love live music-watching genius be spun from the ether simply fascinates me.
I should mention that I first read GWSH on a plane, which made the airport scene even funnier. I had passengers all around giving me all sorts of weird looks as I snorted, cackled and then laughed so hard I almost cried.
Edited to add that since it's Christmas, try reading a snowy book-give Mark Helprin's "A Winter's Tale" a gander.
The language is extraordinary, the vision massive, and the man writes like an angel (Be warned, bring your dictionary for some scenes), it's a surrealistic magical reality romance rooted in Dickens, a book the NYT said they were hesistent to describe for being unable to capture it's sheer beauty as well as identifying it as one of the single best works of American fiction published in the last 25 years.
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