Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for April 24, 2019

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Hunter S. Thompson and I don’t see how that’s even a question.

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    Lou  over 5 years ago

    Crichton was an early master on the Same Plot Different Book genre. He was also a mentor to Dan Brown.

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    ChessPirate  over 5 years ago

    But Hunter would only bite people who had just taken drugs…

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 5 years ago

    “We were somewhere around Tartarus on the edge of the Styx when the drugs began to take hold.”

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    Baron Grim  over 5 years ago

    I don’t know who would be a better vampire, but I do like Rick’s taste in reading material. (I’m also disappointed by how many commentors are admittedly ignorant of Thompson and Adams. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro, but time is irrelevant, lunchtime doubly so.)

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 5 years ago

    It would be very improbable for Douglas Adams to be a vampire.

    Authors as protagonists are done a lot. H.G. Wells and H.P. Lovecraft have had numerous adventures, for example, and Philip José Farmer kept using authors as his protagonists.

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    cooganm Premium Member over 5 years ago

    It depends on how you define “better”. Thompson would fit a vampire profile quite nicely, but Adams would make it much more fun.

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