Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Total Points
#187
- Pages
- 204
- Genres
- American Humor Journalism
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...
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Sep 25th, 2024
May 5th, 2019
Feb 19th, 2018
ugh. I really do not like this genre. Interesting...but so very wrong.
Dec 9th, 2017
Jun 14th, 2015
Hunter S Thompson tells of a world outside of that which most of us live. It his world of drugs and the effects that it has upon himself and his attorney. Given the incredible self-indulgence of these characters it would be tempting to condemn them but there is something in their contrast with the more conformist characters that made this book one I could not put down. I am still wondering what was the American Dream.
Jan 13th, 2015
Nov 9th, 2014
I really struggled to enjoy this book. It wasn't awful but it really wasn't my cup of tea. Interesting enough not to get just 1 star though, I've read worse.
Jul 25th, 2014
Mar 25th, 2013
An interesting read. The characters are interesting and strange. Drugs and alcohol rule in this book.
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