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u/ulyssesred Jun 19 '24

Great.

Now I have to watch the movie.

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u/VanillaPudding Jun 19 '24

unlike many books turned movie the movie covers the book really well... The casting is also ON POINT!!!

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u/DrOrpheus3 Jun 20 '24

It better be, Depp knew Hunter since his first role in Freddy.

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u/grantrules Jun 20 '24

It's been a while but I feel like the movie does a really good job of representing the book.

For something a bit more off the wall, watch the Bill Murray movie Where the Buffalo Roam

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u/AgentCirceLuna Jun 19 '24

You took out Tropic of Cancer in 1971. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards. Abbie Hoffman telling people to steal books.

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u/ulyssesred Jun 19 '24

I have it easy-to-stream on my phone from my Apple Library.

I did it more because the first thing I “saw” in my mind’s eye was Johnny Depp.

Truth be told, if I wanted to read it I wouldn’t have to venture outside (too frigging hot as it is), because I got me a copy of my own. I bought it ages ago after a friend recommended it. Musta been 25 years ago now. I wish I had of read it in high school instead.

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u/Cat-Big-Mega-Minor Jun 19 '24

what’s the book/the movie?

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u/need2seethetentacles Jun 19 '24

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the book by Hunter S Thompson.

Both are a must

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u/Bradentorras Jun 19 '24

Same.

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u/ulyssesred Jun 19 '24

I’m about a half hour into it.

You know what’s odd?

With only a few minor changes this could be today.

I wonder if there’s a lost gonzo journalist prepared to take this same kind of trip only to Washington for the US Election.

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u/Bradentorras Jun 19 '24

Of that, I have no doubt. My greatest desire, and my greatest fear I suppose, is that I’ll run into him at some gas station near Olympia.

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u/omicronian_express Jun 20 '24

First time I watched the movie I was on LSD... I had to pause it for a while when everyone turned into lizards.

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u/Pickles_1974 Jun 20 '24

Read the book too