This really really sucks
All the good ones always have to die :(
Hunter S.Thompson commits suicide
Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised
a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas, fatally shot himself at his Aspen-area home, his son said.
He was 67.
"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers
respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson
said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.
Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson,
confirmed the death.
Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not
home at the time.
Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's visit to Las
Vegas, made into a film starring Johnny Depp, he also wrote Fear and
Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. The central character in those
wild, sprawling satires was Dr. Thompson, a snarling, drug- and
alcohol-crazed observer and participant.
Thompson is credited with pioneering New Journalism - or, as he dubbed
it, "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential
component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling
Stone magazine.
"Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist,"
Thompson said in 2003. "You have to get your knowledge of life from
somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before
you alter it."
An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life,
Thompson also wrote such collections as Generation of Swine and Songs
of the Doomed. His first ever novel, The Rum Diary, written in 1959,
was first published in 1998.
Thompson was a counterculture icon at the height of the Watergate era,
and Richard Nixon once said he represented "that dark, venal, and
incurably violent side of the American character".
Thompson also was the model for Gary Trudeau's balding Uncle Duke in
the comic strip Doonesbury and was portrayed on screen by Johnny Depp
in a film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Other books
include The Great Shark Hunt, Hell's Angels and The Proud Highway. His
most recent effort was Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and
the Downward Spiral of Dumbness.
Hunter S.Thompson commits suicide
Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised
a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas, fatally shot himself at his Aspen-area home, his son said.
He was 67.
"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers
respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson
said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.
Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson,
confirmed the death.
Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not
home at the time.
Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's visit to Las
Vegas, made into a film starring Johnny Depp, he also wrote Fear and
Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. The central character in those
wild, sprawling satires was Dr. Thompson, a snarling, drug- and
alcohol-crazed observer and participant.
Thompson is credited with pioneering New Journalism - or, as he dubbed
it, "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential
component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling
Stone magazine.
"Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist,"
Thompson said in 2003. "You have to get your knowledge of life from
somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before
you alter it."
An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life,
Thompson also wrote such collections as Generation of Swine and Songs
of the Doomed. His first ever novel, The Rum Diary, written in 1959,
was first published in 1998.
Thompson was a counterculture icon at the height of the Watergate era,
and Richard Nixon once said he represented "that dark, venal, and
incurably violent side of the American character".
Thompson also was the model for Gary Trudeau's balding Uncle Duke in
the comic strip Doonesbury and was portrayed on screen by Johnny Depp
in a film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Other books
include The Great Shark Hunt, Hell's Angels and The Proud Highway. His
most recent effort was Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and
the Downward Spiral of Dumbness.