I just finished
The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thompson. I read Fear and Loathing some years ago and have enjoyed reading about HST ever since, particularly his thoughts on
'finding your purpose'.
The Rum Diary was excellent. Highly enjoyable, and the first novel for a while that I had looked forward to getting home from work, in order to read. Paul, the protagonist, is entertaining with some incisive observations and quips and the plot never really pauses - it's a very easy, enjoyable read.
A favourite description:
“
Disgusting as he usually was, on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard.”
Next up is
The Four Agreements, on Bill Perkins' recommendation! I'm also going to order The Third Policemen and At Swim-Two-Birds, and Bryson's A Walk In The Woods, upon thread recs.