The son of Hunter S. Thompson says the author shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home.

[HAL9000]

AP News Alert

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- The son of Hunter S. Thompson says the author shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home.

[Loud Mime]

I don't think that any book has made me laugh as hard as FALILVegas.......His character in Doonesbury was hilarious too. Somehow, his taking his own life makes sense, to him anyway.

[Arkinsaw]

I never stated that I "wasn't interested" in this story or this thread: indeed, I'm quite interested, just not the way you wish me to be. Now, why don't you "ignore" my posts in this thread on the matter if you dislike them? That's the more logical way to go, to coin a phrase, I think...

Nah, If you can't look down on obituary trolls, who can you look down on. I don't have to go over to DU to get my nightly dose of bad taste as long as there is a good obituary troll.

[JennysCool]

Sheesh. Whatta grouch.

[Neanderthal]

"Hell's Angels remains one of my favorites to this day."

Me too.

[Arkinsaw]

For a "FReeper," you sure do seem to be, alongside your allies, to be shedding a disproportionate number of tears for a dead leftist scribbler...very curious.

If you weren't the "newbie" amongst the three of us it might be curious. Not though.

[eldoradude]

Good riddance

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Perhaps my admiration for Hemingway is grounded in his journalistic background.

Frankly, I don't see how anyone can claim that the "The Great Gatsby" is a masterful work of American literature, while "The Sun Also Rises" was a piece of cultural detritus.

Both works, in my estimation, added inestimably to our nation's literary cannon.

Perhaps I only feel that way because I read them out of the sequence in which they were first published, but I still think that Heminway's adventurous novel stands the test of time.

[Loud Mime]

I liked the part where they were going to spray paint that obsenity about the pope on the Aussie Yacht....

[Neanderthal]

"When "Doonesbury" was really funny, way back in the day, my favorite character was Duke, based on Thompson no less. Very sad."

It was great until 1983. Something happened after Trudeau married that liberal reporter babe and it was never funny after that.

[A Jovial Cad]

Perhaps you need an etiquette update, cowboy: it is considered mannerly to ping another FR poster you're commenting about to your post, even if the post/reply is principally addressed to a fellow troll, as seems to be the case here.

[HTuttle]

I wonder what his response to his own demise would be.
I bet it'd be more irreverent than most posts here.

[Borges]

The Great Gatsby, along with Lolita, is one of the great sustained bursts of lyricism in the English lanugage. In the 20th century anyway.

[sheik yerbouty]

I wonder where he hid the arenochrome? What will become of Raoul Duke's son?

[freebilly]

I wonder what his response to his own demise would be. I bet it'd be more irreverent than most posts here.

Good bet....

[A Jovial Cad]

Hardly a "newbie," cowboy: you need to learn how to count. My recommendation would be that you start with learning to tally years, then graduate to months, and move on from there to days in the Julian calendar...

[orangelobster]

"If you can't look down on obituary trolls, who can you look down on."

must admit that's a good point as well.

[davidtalker]

Maybe he offed himself over the NHL lockout. he and Warren Zevon were huge NHL puckheads. I hope Bettman and Goodenow don't have HST's death on their hands, too.