Full Thread: What are you reading?
View Single Post
Old December 12th, 2011 #99
Karl Radl
The Epitome of Evil
 
Karl Radl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Unseen University of New York
Posts: 3,130
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthias Hetzenauer View Post
What did you think of Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-eater? I thought it a fascinating read.
Quite an entertaining read even if I didn't massively approve of his apologetics; of a sort, for opium: I prefer his 'Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts', which is quite brilliant.

I think the description of him as 'Hunter S. Thompson' of the 19th century is fairly valid, but Quincey was mild by comparison if you believe everything Thompson ever claimed.