Hunter S Thompson

Now, if you want to say that Hunter was more about the hype then the substance, I won't fight you about it. So many people expect to read his work and be overwhelmed by his creative writing style, but that is not what he was all about. In my opinion, he was more about being whatever he wanted to be as opposed to what he should be to make our society better. He could have written novel after novel about the injustices in the world, but instead he decided to write about things that the majority of the US society was living. Instead of creating a tale of good vs evil, nature vs nurture he decided to touch on real people vs zombies (people acting like real people). He seemed to write the first thing that popped into his head, especially when he was fucked up. To me, that is true skill, to make you feel like you are on a journey with someone who has not a single rational thought, and still when you are done reading, you feel like your life has been changed.
A great book by HST was The Curse of Lono. Check it out...