liz_marcs: S5 Giles researching the killer snot monster (BtVS_Killer_Snot_Monster)
liz_marcs ([personal profile] liz_marcs) wrote2008-11-03 04:21 pm

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

Heeeee!

See the title? What author wrote it? Can you tell me what book it came from?

I bet I'll be able to count the number of people on one hand who'll be able to answer either one of those questions.

(Hint: It's from the same book where this quote appears, "We can't stop here. This is bat country!")

I can't tell you how many local indie books stores I tore apart looking for books by this author over the past two weeks. He's all but disappeared off the shelves, even though they're starting to reissue his books in high-quality, hardback bound versions.

[Oddly enough, going to big-box bookstores is actually inconvenient for me because I'd have to go out of my way to get to them.]

Finally, I gave up and have turned to Amazon. I've received the first installment on my order in the form of two hardbound books, one of this lent me the title of this post. *cackles* I can't wait to crack the spine.

You know how in college some people memorized On the Road? Or American Psycho? Or Slaugherhouse Five?

I memorized several books by this author, including the book that lent me the title of this post (it's the first line in the book, in fact).

However, I don't have too many works by this author anymore. Why? Because every time I lend of his books out, I never get them back. I've lost so many due to "borrowing" that I'm down to two of his later (and lesser) works.

I am in the midst of rectifying it even as we speak....

*eyes special edition hardcover of a certain, heavily illustrated book about Hawaii*

Day-um. I think I'm gonna have to ask someone to buy me that for my birthday or Christmas.

And I am never, ever, ever lending books out by this author again. Unless the borrowee signs a promissory note. In blood.

Wheeeeee! I am so excitedly happy. Now I have to resist opening up either one of my books while I'm still at work.
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[identity profile] alicettlg.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hunter Thompson! Don't remember which book, everything he's written all sort of runs together for me because, you know, the drugs did take hold... ;)

Now I'll read the comments.

and the books, I wonder if it's cause the stores sold what copies they did have - more interest cause of his death and the documentary? Or did they just not have any/hardly any copies in stock anyway?
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[identity profile] alicettlg.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I bet I'll be able to count the number of people on one hand who'll be able to answer either one of those questions.

I think your readers are more well-read than that! Looks like the comments prove that too. :)

Ever read Norman Mailer? Tough Guys Don't Dance and Harlot's Ghost remind me of Thompson, TGDD has a stream of consciousness feel to it and Harlot's Ghost is a "what long strange trip it's been" kind of book.

I'm planning on curling up in front of the tv tomorrow evening with a nice cup of hot tea and savoring the moment (hopefully!)

[identity profile] doingsoso.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson, LOL, they used the line in the movie too. Johnny Depp played that character. It was funny because there was actually a dead bat body, heh.

[identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Why is it that people never return the favorite author's? I've lost several by my favorite author as well. Perhaps it's because we so impassionedly tell people, "You must read this!" while things we merely like stay sitting on the shelf.

[identity profile] lostlo.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you kidding? That's the easiest HST quote ever.

If you do any future quotes of this nature, I will be delightedly trying to answer them.

If only HST could put out a statement today. Instead I just rely on my dad, who sends me text messages like "I voted. Take that, you bastards!" and "We have plans to hang out with our Czech friends tonight. We will be dancing on the bones of dead Republicans."

[identity profile] dr-pipe.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
really? You don't know many people who would recognize that line? I'd think at least after the movie came out...

[identity profile] dr-pipe.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, nevermind...

Anyway I'm surprised your bookstores were so clueless about it!

[identity profile] pinkdormouse.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought everyone knew that one.

But then my one and only visit to Barstow was equally surreal...

[identity profile] ebony14.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
If it has not been recommended to you before, I strongly and highly recommend the spoken-word version from Margaritaville Records. Jim Jarmusch as Raoul Duke, Maury Chaykin as Dr. Gonzo, Harry Dean Stanton as Duke's mental voice, and assorted other folks, including Harry Shearer, George Seagal, and Jimmy Buffett (well, it IS his record label). It's the whole book, as far as I can tell.

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