so the whole time i've been bookfasting, i've only read fear and loathing. i would often reference it as "the worst book in the world" because i just didn't get it. up until the end, where it became really fantastic and i don't know why i just didn't like those beginning parts. maybe there were too many drugs and not enough actually doing the work that he was there to do so i got all judgy as i tend to do, or i had built it up to be something completely different in my head. but i ended up really enjoying it.
i feel like every book i will read for the bookfast club will be dubbed "the worst book in the world" because i'm always so excited to get on to the next one.
for example, everything is illuminated is kindof confusing me right now and i already have day of the triffids checked out of the library (oh cruel irony, i need someone to find me a copy of the road please. i grabbed no country for old men because i was feeling spiteful at the library's lack of the road.)
but anyway. i watched Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride on Netflix today and i thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it as a companion to fear and loathing, especially if you find reading thompson to be particularly rough like i did. i remember reading about his life in rolling stone after he killed himself (a fact i completely forgot about) and it didn't make as much sense to me when i was fifteen as it does now. it made me wish i could go back in time and read rolling stone when he was publishing articles in it. and also i really want to watch where the buffalo roam and of course, the movie adaptation of fear and loathing.
it would be interesting if all of the bookfast books had movie counterparts like january's did. and everything is illuminated is sitting in the queue just waiting for me to finish the book. i still have like 4 days left and a 45 minute train ride is in there so i just might accomplish it.
