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Summary: The Feel Good Book of the Year!
Review: One of the most colorful books I have ever read! Love the satire, and the illistrations! The most accurate account of a "trip" I have ever read! Hunter, is this centuries number one writer, kudos!
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!
Review: READ THIS BOOK! This is my favorite book of all time! I've read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas at least 5 times over the years and it always makes me laugh out loud on the first page. A fantastic tale of dangerous drugs, hallucinacions, and the American Dream! For HST fans I also recommend The Curse of Lono, Hell's Angels, and The Rum Diary.
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Summary: Seldom can someone capture
Review: Seldom can it be captured, the hellish fallout created when all real dreams shatter and reform as a manical and desperate attempt to escape from a vapid meaningless life that is not but a grim self-caricature of all that was once believed and held dear. This harrowing tale of the decay American society is all the time pointing and screaming that the emperor has no clothes, that the American dream is a tepid sludge ridden stream of shallow, deadening and meaningless garbage, a foolish emission of pure nothingness, living death. The two main characters are however not in any way perpetuators of this idiocy of American culture, but they are desperate refugees that fight it every step of the way using every means at their disposal, they are just victims like everyone else, only they have undertaken the task of actually doing something about their victimhood. Though it is hard to say what transpired in HST's twisted mind when he created this, this book is far from shallow and has different many levels, like the levels of hell only more shocking.
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Summary: I bothered to read THIS?
Review: This book is loathsome. I don't even rate it at all. It is incoherent, rambling, and remarkable solely for its subject - which CLAIMS to be realistic and drug-fuelled. It is sordid, squalid and depressing, with no redeeming qualities, except to convince one that drugs are just as you always thought they were. This book is overhyped, and nauseating. The cartoons merely annoy and irritate, especially the deliberately blotted pages. There is no insight into the human soul, or what passes for a human soul in these soulless victims of their own selves. I still do not believe that I read it all through, and will definitely never do so again. Never before has a book actually made me feel so physically sick - I would have flung it on the fire had there been one handy. The only thing it would be good for would be as compulsory reading in drying-out drug rehab clinics, to convince people that they don't deserve to demean themselves so miserably in this way again.There is only one good episode in this entire work, involving a sportsman and a young fan, which genuinely shows some insight and considered attack upon the American dream. The rest of the book is all misanthropic attack, failing to satisfy the principal rule of satire - there MUST be at least some basis of the thing you are attacking in your attack, rather than just attack and nothing to show what you are attacking.
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Summary: reality, what reality?
Review: This strange, drug-addled treatise treats Vegas with the contempt it so richly deserves. Not for the faint-hearted, Thompson and buddy simultaneously drag the gutter and live the high life fueled by an elephant-stupefying cocktail of practically everything. Ralph Steadman's contribution shouldn't be overlooked as his cartoons add humor to some of the most vilely decadent sections. Read it in a single pass to get the most from it, preferably while slumming in a cocktail lounge.
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Summary: Spit-spewing funny
Review: Laughter is the language of Hunter S. Thompson, laughter and insanity. Fear and Loathing in las Vegas serves up bountiful doses of both. It isn't depressing, it isn't constant explosions, and it isn't a tear-jerker. It is unexplainable fun, unexplainable because usually two losers on a trip with a stolen car stock-piled with drugs wouldn't amuse me in the slightest. But Thompson somehow makes it amusing, and more than that, downright funny. WARNING: The movie does not do this book justice, and I suggest reading it before wasting your money renting the movie-adaption. Yee-uck!
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Summary: A decent book overall
Review: This is a decent book overall. It's occasionally hard to follow, as might be expected considering the subject matter. It is quite funny in places and deeply disturbing in others. The book has a strange sort of "Friend-of-a-friend story" feel throughout. Definitely not a good source of suggestions for responsible adult behavior, this book is nonetheless entertaining and worthwhile.
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Summary: my favorite book of all time
Review: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would have to be my favorite book of all time (later also becoming my favorite movie). The book is very interesting, and detailed. I love the way Hunter S. Thompson describes his drug trips as well as the way he seems to be talking to the reader as he writes almost like he was there telling you the story of his trip to Las Vegas (and everywhere else he went). I really recomend this book for anyone who'd like something interesting to read.
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Summary: Explosive!
Review: When I read this book i was in the 8th grade. I was amazed by Hunters life and had to read more of his books like hells angels now i am in 9th and i am still reading his stuff over and over if you liked the movie read the book the book is a lot funnier and it goes into more detail than the movie did. I recomend you buy this book now.
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Summary: WHY DON'T WE HAVE OUR CHILDREN READ THOMPSON IN SCHOOL?
Review: Thompson's most famous work, and for good reason. "Dr. Raoul Duke" proves himself to be the Mark Twain of our time: indulgent, biting, and hysterically critical of society just like good ol' Sam Clemens...so why don't we read "fear and loathing" in school? Kids can learn a lot more about the nature of drugs from seeing the hysterical adventures at the Circus Circus casino and the horrifying moment in the hotel bathroom after Thompson's cohort digested an entire sheet of blotter acid...this book is truly brilliant, on par with Jack Kerouac's work, only Thompson doesn't take himself as seriously as Kerouac, which of course makes him all the more fun.
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