True enough but not particularly on point, I've already ran down Hunter's later stuff on here, you reading my mind?
Lol. Maybe. Despite his decline, I think most writers will never measure up to Thompson when he was in his prime, so in some ways it seems pointless to dwell on it other than thinking about what could have been. One of his peers, Kesey, had what, maybe one good novel? Pretty much everything HST wrote from
Hells Angels through
The Curse of Lono is worth reading. That's one helluva legacy, regardless of any squandered talent later.