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Talented writer - legitimately so.
Narcissist in the extreme. It was cute when he was young - every work is about the world happening to HST. Go into his later stuff. It's just a circular morass of self-involved negativity. There's no real insight at all, just hyperbole, anger, and explosions of rage that serve to obscure what he's actually feeling even to himself. He had to suicide eventually. There was no good ending to the world he created for himself, and certainly no peace and wisdom with age. Even the way he went out was like a little bitch - pissing and moaning to his wife on the phone and then offing himself without a single thought to the child in the house with him.
His style is pure catnip to shallow twenty year olds, though, so it will probably stay with us for a long time.
