[boop]

Hells Angels is a great read. When Thompson wasn’t making crap up about Nixon he could really write.

[Jimmy Valentine]

He started out as an iconoclast, with a great writing style, but in the end turned into a whiney old poltroon.

He killed himself because he had completely ruined his health and his popularity had fallen away. Like Hemmingway at the end, he could barely write a sentence that pleased him.