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- Jul 16, 2021
No bullshit, some of the best books in the world come from people like Roland. I've ranted about this before in the thread, but the thing that really made a lot of old-school authors good at their craft was that they went out and did all kinds of interesting things first, then started writing later, like Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway. Living and working in Vegas would give you so much fodder for, say, a casino heist thriller or a crime novel set in the shitty parts of town that the punters and tourists don't visit. Something like Carl Hiaasen's Florida novels.
Or look at Louis L'Amour. He fucked up over and over and travelled the world as a seaman on really shitty small ships before he started writing stories down. The guy basically educated himself from random books he found at merchant mariner dormitories in 4th world shitholes. I don't think he had any formal education to speak of. I need to reread his autobiography.
Man, RIP James Earl Jones, can't even be mad at fats for soyposting about this one.
He'll always be Thulsa Doom to me.