Exactly! tfw you pinned it.Originally Posted by tfw73
Dash, Prism, Bnewb yes, yes, yes! This forum is a vacation, or next best thing. The info is spectacular, hard to find anything like this for other locations around the world.
Thanks to you Rob for all the work to keep this site up and going.
Dash, very well said. as a 40 year traveler to negril and a board participant since inception though mostly as a lurker i agree. the board is great and all consuming.
i still am glad my first trip in 74 consisted of flying into mo bay finding a ride in a small car . 4 of us packed in with luggage. two of the 4 we just met while waiting for a ride.
drinking "jungle juice" on the trip out and when the driver said where are you going we said where's a good place to stay. he dropped us in red ground at a place he knew. $2.00/ night
thanks for putting it into words, Dash.
Well said Dash but when I read a book I first want to know if it's fiction or non-fiction....I want to know if my hamburger is real meat or fake meat......I have many many stories from my great times(16) in Negril but if I was a writer of reality and my story went like this..........Sat on the sand today and threw some stones into the water,ate some eggs for breakfast then took and afternoon nap......Nobody would read it right? Boring,right? In my opinion Negril.Com is really for those who are NOT in Negril and can't wait to get back.I will surely not be posting 30 times a day While I am in Negril because then Im "not" experiencing the real world to the fullest....That's all....I'm not really an Ogre or a Hater.... I'm just a really swell kinda guy...Love& Kisses to all,,,Freddy....
Fred,
When eating food, it is your right to know what is in it as there might be food allergies or other issues that could cause serious health problems. This a serious matter.
Books are categorized as fiction and non-fiction, but you cannot trust these simple categories. Since Hunter has been brought up a few times now, if you read the letters that Dr. Thompson wrote about his "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" to his various friends and publisher, he was rather amazed that he got it listed in "non-fiction" category, when even he admitted there was no possible way that all of it was true.
So while you may want to know whether a book is fiction or non-fiction, sometimes that is impossible to know for certain. As the old adage goes, "history is written by the winner". Even our human history, which we take as facts are often just the viewpoint of those who wrote the history. There are always at least two sides to every story, and we are not always allowed the privilege of knowing the whole, true story.
Every trip report is written from the perspective of each individual writer. There are no demands on anyone to state what, if any parts of what they write are the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, or simple fiction. It is purely up to the writer as to what they want to include, exclude, embellish or create. It is called artistic license.
You may want to know if it is fiction or non-fiction, but you have no right to demand that information from any writer. There are no health issues involved and you not knowing changes nothing nor can cause you any harm.
But your constant and relentless demanding and personal charges being made against LC does, unfortunately paint you as a hater, or an ogre if you prefer. And you are the only one who can change the image that you have painted....
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The mighty ROB hath spoken!
I never "demanded"anything Rob...I just prefer to know and if Hunters book was listed as non-fiction then someone Other than him made that decision... I also do not have constant and demanding opinions,I just have opinions but hey man,I get it.I'm the villain here and the minority so easy to attack me..I have written many funny stories here that's all my friend...So whip away folks whip away on my back.....One thing I don't write about is B Jobs or doing the Jamaican working girls and wearing Trojans,right?
Fred,
Stick to stealing from the AI's.
Enjoy,
VVHT
I love Hunter S Thompson!
I could read a mountain of Fred Stripe's postings and could usually not find anything I agree with him about but in this particular case.... I do.
There used to be a 60's-something guy "George" who wrote about his adventures with a 20's something "exotic dancer" and he took quite a verbal lashing. Now, maybe it is because he did post pictures of his exploits or maybe he just fit the stereotypical profile of "getting his groove back" but I don't know for sure.
I like Leslie Chow's writing as I am somewhat of a writer myself and his way with words and phrases do conjure up some vivid pictures without even posting one but, what Fred said above, also conjures up some vivid pictures and I think mentioning them in the stories is not essential to the story being told.
I know that "sex sells" and it titillates a lot of travelers who do or wish they did what he writes about. My only problem is that I live in a small town in Jamaica where the residents are very protective of their young ladies and young men and (I believe) would be aghast and outraged if they read that thread.
As I said, I am not in anyway complaining or "hating", because I enjoy reading what he is writing. I only think more care should be exercised. When I go to an "action movie", I get up and get some popcorn when the obligatory and gratuitous sex scene is inserted and has nothing to do with the movie plot.
Just my own opinion.
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