Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

I always thought that I was too individual to have heroes. I always sneered at footage of people weeping and lighting candles over the likes of Elvis, Lennon and Princess Diana. Then Hunter S Thompson shot himself. I stood for a good five minutes in Smiths, transfixed by the headline in the Independent, about ready to blub. Unlike any other author you may admire or revere, if you bought into his maniacal vein of invective, you were part of his club. ...
...pussy, a faggot, a bagman or a shill, but you were still kind of his friend. Thompson wrote for all the people who found that the boot on their neck was growing a little uncomfortable, for those whose politician's 2 + 2 equalled five. He mapped the atlas of double speak and hypocrisy. This review isn't really about 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. But if you mark me 'Not Helpful' or 'Off Topic', you can believe that the ghost of Dr Gonzo is gonna ...

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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson is " a savage journey to the heart of the american dream". Is it? I sure as hell don't know and I don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many times I've read it. What's the novel about? What's next? Raoul Duke, a freelance journalist and his Attorney travel to Las Vegas with enough drugs to kill as many teenage ravers that America has in the boot of their car. Why? Who knows,all we know ...
...a man amidst an ether binge) and pretty much anything else that bends,manipulates and confuses the mind. Along the way they terrorise a hitchhiker, screw up a few hotel rooms(without paying of course), drive numerous rental cars at extremely high speeds, wind up a traffic cop,come across a weird Barbara Streisand obsessed artist, see many interesting reptilia, go to a circus casino and go through many other drug crazed, hilarious scenarios. The ...

EmmaAdams 17.01.2004 (06.02.2004) · Read full review
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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

I'll get it out the way now - this book is amazing. So you don't need to read any further to find out more. However: This book is an amazing read, with brilliantly vivid imagary and imagination that you think could only come from Hunter S Thomson's one-man-one-party life. You follow the exploits of a jounalits travelling with his Samoan lawyer to Las Vagas to cover a race. However, everything that happens on the way is completely unpredictable and ...

stoduk 05.12.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

This is a very funny book. Thompson's writing is sharp and, whether intentional or not, full of self mockery, reeling out things like "I'm a resonably respectable citizen, multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. It chronicles his and Steadman's trip to Las Vegas with a suitcase of 'heinous chemicals' and hurtles through their bizarre incidents at breeak neck speed, my favourite being at the Circus Circus. Despite this there are melancholy ...

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...Thompson uses distinct imagery during fear and loathing which cleverly portrays the life of excess he is living. There are very few books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Even fewer books are written with such skill and in addition, a high level of character development. I found it very interesting to read about his thoughts, at times quite weird but wonderful all the same. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for something diiferent. ...

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This book is great. I don’t advocate the use of drugs under any circumstances. But if you have never taken drugs then this book makes you feel like you have. The descriptions of each drug and the dramatic effects on the narrators body are hilarious. Each hallucination more intense that the last. The book is not all funny, there are some pretty dark and disturbing sections that wake you up. The scary thing is that it is a true story. The story follows ...

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...review you may enquire? Because Fear and loathing is THE book (and equally ingenius movie) that has inspired a whole new culture. First my buddy read it, then i read it, my brother read it, they tell their friends who tell their friends who are too far gone on High Power blotter acid to read it but that doesn't matter-they are living it. It's chock fulla grit. Grit, marijuana, Lsd, cocaine, raw ether, mescaline and a "whole galaxy of uppers downers ...
...thinly veiled Hunter S.Thompson (Raoul Duke) takes a foul and "savage journey to the heart of the american dream", accompanied by his stoned, twisted attorney, a fire apple red convertable-The Shark, and a trunk full of narcotics. This book is better than Jesus. I can't stop quoting it. Surely this is the definative mark of a good book? It made me long, like Raoul Duke , dragged on a choke-chain into the 70s, for simpler times (IE the 60s), when ...

heroinchica 17.01.2004 (18.01.2004) · Read full review
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This truly is a fantastic story, the two main characters i immediately thought were fantstic in their very special way. The two characters are obviously very often high on drugs and the journey they take in the book to Las Vegas is no different. The men apart from being wildly drunk and high and armed with a 357 Magnum, are searching for the American dream and i believe that they find it but the characters don't know they've found it because they ...
...They manage to live the American dream by renting a car, a convertable red 'shark' and nearly destroy it this of course is on credit and so is the second car they rent and again almost completely destroy. Within their L.S.D induced trip they allow the reader to get a real experience of what it is like and how paranoid it makes you, hence the title. The way the two characters endeer themselves to the reader is in the way that due to their drug taking ...

JIMOTHY2000 09.07.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

This was one of the first books i have read in a long time and it has really made me back into a book fiend! Im not going to go into loads of depth here as most people have seen the film and know what a great piece of 'Gonzo journalism' it is. im not going to expain that as i would be here all day. But all you need to know is that the story centres around two characters trying to find the american dream. But instead all the find is a very long sleep ...
...event. Like when one character meets a young girl who loves painting barbara streisand of all people. Or the numorus times the main character Hunter S Thompson AKA 'Duke' has to dodge the hotal staff with "a car full of felonies" The book is full of this sort of stranges goings on that keep your eyes stuck between the pages thanks for reading ...

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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson