BINGO! now hopefully my students will pick up on that... hunter s. thompson is another of my all-time favorite authors. fear & loathing in las vegas was the first book i read that he'd written & i think it's still my favorite. the rum diaries is a favorite of mine also. anyone here a carl hiaasen of christopher moore fan?
Hiaasen is a great storyteller but sometimes I have trouble keeping the characters and plots from his novels that I've read straight. He's definitely got the Florida thing covered. I like his newspaper columns and I thought Hoot was good. My son enjoyed the book and the movie. I really want to read his golf book. Hiaasen was part of that Key West group with Harrison, McGuane, Jimmy Buffett, Richard Brautigan, Russell Chatham, and Guy de la Valdene in the 70s hanging out and partying and fly-fishing the flats. de La Valdene wrote a terrific book on quail hunting For a Handful of Feathers and he's got a new one on partridge hunting. Jimmy Buffett tells a pretty good story. I liked A Salty Piece of Land and his travelogue A Pirate Looks at Fifty that has some of his surfing stories from the Gulf Coast, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean. I don't know Moore. What's his thing?
i have been a parrothead since before i could walk...i own & have read repeatedly everything buffett's written. moore is similar to hiaasen in that his stories are universally bizarre & twisted. but they cover a wider variety of subjects, most frequently delving into religion/mythology & his protagonists are usually ne'er do-wells coasting along, not quite basking in their own mediocrity. he refers to them as "beta males." he's written about cargo cults, vampires, jesus/christianity, whales, the grim reaper, king lear, etc... he's not as prolific as hiaasen is, but i think moore is younger. moore just has a great way w/ words. check out fluke or island of the sequined love nun to get an idea. oh, i'm also a fan of bruce chatwin's the songlines, about australia & the aborigines. very interesting book...i read it whenever i set off on a trip.
nope...i've heard about it, but i don't think i know anyone who has actually seen it. is it any good? close to the book?
It was released in '78 I like it a lot. of course I've never read the book. It's a little trippy at times and pretty dark, but I really like it. Re-watching it as an adult makes me wonder how my parents ever let me watch it as a kid. After typing the above I found this from Wiki: "Although the film was fairly faithful to the novel, several changes were made to the storyline, mainly to decrease overdetailed complexity and improve pace and flow of the plot. In addition, the order in which some events occur is re-arranged.Unlike many animated features, the film faithfully emulated the dark and violent sophistication of the book. As a result, many reviewers took to warning parents that children might find the content disturbing." I would definitely recommend checking it out.
