Hunter S. Thompson

Person · Open Library

Born

18 July 1937

Died

20 February 2005

Works

112

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1937-07-18

Active to

2005-02-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

10,613

Total plays

111,584

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) – was an American journalist and author. As a writer he is remembered most for his flamboyant and humorous style. He enjoyed employing action verbs to comically spin outlandish tales that were completely unbelievable, yet provided a unique viewpoint to accurately describe the underlying reality at hand. Thompson almost always wrote in first person narrative, and his stories became so colorfully contrived that they easily slipped into t

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 52,676x

2. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

   · 1994 · cited 52,099x

3. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,581x

4. Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

   · 2002 · cited 32,056x

5. The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools

   · 1997 · cited 31,745x

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Quotes

• “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
• “The hard core, the outlaw elite, were the Hell's Angels... wearing the winged death's-head on the back of their sleeveless jackets and packing their "mamas" behind them on big "chopped hogs." They rode with a fine unwashed arrogance, secure in their reputation as the rottenest motorcycle gang in the whole history of Christendom.”
• “Satan's Slaves, number three in the outlaw hierarchy, custom-bike specialists with a taste for the flesh of young dogs, flashy headbands and tender young blondes with lobotomy eyes.”
• “Tiny hurts people. When he loses his temper he goes completely out of control and his huge body becomes a lethal weapon. It is difficult to see what role he might play in the Great Society.”
• “The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.”
• “Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.”

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