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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page.??It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.??Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.
Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren
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415 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 17, 2008 Type: User Review |
Amazing
This book changed my view of literature and journalism and reminded me how important individuality is. Hunter S. Thompson, is amongst the best literary minds of his genration. He is able to draw a reader in with detail and inventive use of the...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Oooh really good...
Had some issues with delivery (of no fault to Amazons) which were dealt with wonderfully.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
Greatest postwar American novel
A 60's style drug trip in the 70's. Only a decade a part in time, but an age apart in form. Lawlessness vs. law-and-order, by a true life breather. A final cry from the peace and love generation; a time when Americans weren't afraid. Don't be...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
Groovy
I read this book years ago. Like everything else from the 60's that seemed hip and inspirational back then....it now seems dated and ridiculous. Reading it is kinda like watching a black and white movie that is suppose to be a classic but just...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
Blitzed!
That so many people have tried to justify, make sense of and interpret Thompson's pseudo-fiction in literal terms only indicates how many asinine, clueless people have read this magnificently absurd book. All that's required when reading HST's...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
BFD an intimate portrait of burnouts on Holiday
So this book is just a 200 page hallucinogenic drug fueled anecdote about going to Vegas to write about the Mint 400. Big deal. There's nothing more to it. If you are vaguely curious about what goes on in the mind of a hallucinogenic drug user,...
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 25, 2008 Type: User Review |
In an encyclopedia under the heading of rebel, you'd see his handsome mug.
A fine introduction to the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson. In addition to the obvious theme of drug abuse, Hunter S. Thompson also channels the counterculture in its search for the 'authentic', complete with the typical anti-authoritarian...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
Maniacal, Out-of-Control, Nuts, and Flawless
Hunter S. Thompson and Gonzo Journalism are synonymous, and this read illustrates that fact flawlessly. Maniacal. Out of control. Nuts. Living so close to the edge that "psychotic" would downplay his condition. Written in 1971, Thompson's...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 16, 2008 Type: User Review |
The emperor has no clothes
I read this book while traveling in a small third world country. When you are surrounded by normal people struggeling to get by every day you can see what a self absorbed jackass Hunter Thompson was. This explains why he is so popular with old...
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Perennial Classic
Thompson's magnus opus is a manic, drug-fueled, drug-infested, drug-induced vision of Vegas and America in 1971. Its content, coupled with its vivid vocabulary and an almost discomforting honesty, makes this novel one of the most compelling of its...
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