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Summary: If you NEVER read this book, then you have NEVER lived!!
Review: This book is a life changing experience. Now, granted that sounds like a stupid thing to say and I understand that, but it doesn't make it less true. This book is fun, irreverent, and utterly hysterical. I laughed out loud from the very first page until the very last paragraph. If I was only to read one book for the rest of my life THIS would be the book. I can't describe enough how much you will enjoy this book if you read it. I have never called a book a must read, but this is a MUST READ!
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Summary: Johnny Depp Saved This Film
Review: I have been a fan of Hunter Thompson for quite some time. As I am very familiar with his work this movie probably made more sense to me than to other people. In essence, this movie isn't going to win any new fans for Thompson, but it will entertain his old ones.In addition to that, the movie would have been just about worthless if it wasn't for Johnny Depp's *perfect* portrayl of Thompson. I mean, he was perfect. I have actually met Thompson (I got a ride with him back to the US from Mexico. Long story...) and Depp had his voice, mannerisms, look, everything down perfectly. Depp's performance coupled with a strong supporting performance by Del Torro makes this film what it is. After the dissappointment I felt after the first Thompson-based movie, Where the Buffalo Roam (with Bill Murray as Thompson, he did a pretty good job, he just looks nothing like Thompson), I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I was a little worried that they may botch Thompson's most famous work, but they didn't. Its a good film well worth your time.
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Summary: Journalism at its finest
Review: Hunter S. Thompson is perhaps one of the best journalists to have ever existed in the history of this world. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a perfect example of Hunters genius, and his ability to "get the story". Hunter was a journalist during some serious times in our world. The "dope deacde" as it has been so adoredly called, really changed the outlook on the world, and enacted the MOST change of any decade in the 20th century. Hunter merely did what ANY good journalist should do to get the story, try his hardest to experience the story, so the story can be told with passion. In the case of Hunter, doing as many drugs as he possibly could was getting to the bottom of the story. F & L is a pseudo-fictional account of one such drug binge that Hunter engaged in, and chronicles the drug-induced delerium that was experienced during the pursuit of a story of a different nature, "The Mint 400". The book is written in a very "jumpy" style, and coherence seems to lack in places from one thought to another, but that I feel, is the absolute intentional genius of Hunter S. Thompson. He portrays the thought patterns of a "high" person, and lets us have a glimpse into the mysterious and taboo world of drug abuse, and lets us see WHY this was such a big deal in the 60's. Buy this book! Read it several times! Put it down! Come back and read it some more! An absolute piece of genius.
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Summary: don't look for meaning, it's just fun to read!
Review: Hunter S Thompson's account of covering a convention in Las Vegas in the 1970s with his sleazy druggy lawyer is so funny, you will laugh all the way through it! Best of all, it's a true story!
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Summary: Makes a lot more sense...
Review: If you've seen the movie, it doesn't spoil much the book is still a pretty good read. Not to suggest that the movie didn't do justice to the book, but you need the whole narrative to completely understand everything that's going on and to get a better understanding of Hunter.
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Summary: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RIDE !!!!!
Review: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM IN ACTION.
WEATHER YOU GET THERE ARE NOT IS IRRELLEVENT,
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CLIMAX BUT THE RIDE YOU TAKE.
THE TRIP THAT IS HAPPENING AT THE MOMENT IN INFINITE
TIME.THE FAILED SEEKERS WHO ROAD THE WAVES IN THAT FOUL YEARS
OF ARE LORD 60's and 70's LIKE HUNTER,LEARY, AND NIXON THE STRANGE TORPEDO TRIP THEY ALL WENT ON WAS A FALLACY OF SORTS BECAUSE THEY WANTED SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT THERE. THE DESPERATE ASUMPTION THAT SOMEONE ARE SOMETHING WAS AT THE OTHER END OF THE TUNNEL.IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF HUNTER "A MAN ON THE MOVE,AND JUST SICK ENOUGH TO BE TOTALLY CONFIDENT"
another freak in the freak kingdom
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Summary: Holy leaping cheesedogs, this will make you pee your pants
Review: Quite simply the funniest book I've ever read. Sure you may be perturbed by the occasional extremely graphic descriptions, and the blatant drug induced hedonisim demonstrated by Thompson's character, but this was definitely his tour de force, effectively changing the face of journalism by creating a new genre, "Gonzo." Just read it. Whether you were raised in the 40's 60's or 90's This book will rock your world.
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Summary: This book will make you fear and loath putting it down
Review: This book was a masterpiece. It puts you right into the chemically influenced world of Hunter S. Thomson. You almost begin to feel extremely paranoid as if you are on drugs just by reading this book. Every scene is described in extreme detail. It tells you every twisted thought and vision Hunter S. Thompson experienced during the period this book took place. It also happens to be hilarious. Some of the situations Hunter and his accountant get into are just insane, and how they deal with them are even more insane. I couldn't put it down. If you want to be put into a strange, confusing, hilarious world, then read this book.
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Summary: Arghhhhh! LAME lame LAME! Freaking Bats!
Review: This book is so overrated. I've yet to read exactly WHAT the genius is supposed to be behind this book. That Thompson is able to ramble on and on and on and on and ON about drugs for a few hundred pages? That he was able to put to words what it's like to be in a week-long drug binge (which WOULD be hard, because how COULD you remember it?) I enjoy out-of-the-ordinary books and movies. Although the people that have previously posted (rave) reviews about this book are much deeper into the alternative culture, things like Pulp Fiction and Fight Club are still considered "out there" by the vast majority of the public. And Fear and Loathing not just out there, it's gone. Writing and acting characters that are deranged, whacked out, or insane is no major feat. Just as Hoffman and Pitt's performances for their whacked roles in Rainman and 12 Monkeys were unashamedly way overrated, so is Fear and Loathing. I started the book. I lost interest. I rented the movie, hoping it could contain my focus for 90 minutes. It was lame. At the encouragement of another author, I read the book all the way through. Still bored. Constant drug ramblings with no real objective. It could have ended 50-100 pages earlier, or it could have continued 50-100 pages more (in Denver or Malibu), and it would have made no significant change to the content of the book. I rented the movie again. Ugh. Other than they did a good job sticking to the original content (amazingly so), the original material still was...boring! I'm sure the flames will come, but after spending a considerable amount of energy trying to get through this material, I can't find the genius in the work. As for why everyone that has previously reviewed it has given it 5 stars: it is rare for anyone not extremely interested in the drug culture to get past the first 5 pages, so anyone who didn't love the book probably gave up on it way early and can't make a valid review.
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Summary: It's an experience, almost a rite of passage
Review: This book is one of those that's as much fun to reread as a George Carlin bit is to re-watch. (...) the writing is so perfectly wound, it surrealistically invites ostensibly sane readers into an insane few days in the lives of deeply bent but hilarious individuals. Those with a wonder for every lifestyle MUST read this book!
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