Response to Thompson's The Kentucky Derby is Decadent

I honestly didn’t find Hunter Thompson’s The Kentucky Derby is Decadent. I thought it was way too crude, and although I can find crude humor funny a lot of times, I didn’t think there was really anything funny about the story. I’m not sure if it was just because I just didn’t understand the story the way I was supposed to, because I do admit to being a bit confused about what it was even about and what was going on. I guess I really didn’t even see a point in the story either, and it kind of made me bored. I wouldn’t say the story made me uncomfortable in the fact that it was so raw, but more annoyed than anything else. It was kind of one of those things where I found all the cussing and impolite terminology to be unnecessary.

I also must admit that my Texan pride was a little hurt at the way he described Jimbo, especially because he was from Houston, which is where I was from. I think that is just a Texas thing though, where we don’t like to hear that we are a little dumb and oblivious to the rest of the world at times.