Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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Summary: This is IT?
Review: A friend of mine, whose favorite author is Thompson, loaned me this book. I haven't finished it. I haven't the heart to tell him I really don't get it. I've read some tripped out, scatterbrained stuff in my day, but this just confounds me. I think it's supposed to be the ultimate in excess, or maybe not. I think it's supposed to be funny, and I'm not reading it that way. Or maybe not. I can't tell. I have gotten about halfway in, and it's not going anywhere. Considering this has such a strong reputation, it's not cutting it for me. About the only compelling thing about it to me is how the two main characters can handle so much booze and drugs. Most of us would be face down for 3/4 of the story if we were in it. Page after page I keep waiting for something to get rolling, but it never does. Is that the whole point? Sorry, but this is not worth my time.

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Summary: What exactly is "The American Dream"
Review: The duo race for the American Dream for 200 pages. Did they ever reach it? And if so, did they realize it. I believe that the American Dream is happiness. As the saying goes, "happiness is not found at the end of the road but along the way". At the end of the story they realize they are in the heart of the AD but then it is over. They were living it the whole time. But what next? The Dream is over and they have nothing to show for it except the memory of the experience, which is kind of a blur anyway. So all they really did was pass time away with accomplishing nothing but a wild time. There is nothing wrong with "good times and a bottle of pills", but when it is all said and done you are right back where you started, except everything else seems to have moved ahead leaving you behind. Then the misery sets in on this roller coaster of life. It's madness I tell you, more so than the results due to the conglomerate of drugs one can collect, the ride of life is the American Dream, the key is to get off at the right time. To make sure when it is over you don't exit where you started, or all you have done is passed time. If life is passing time, you are fine, but later if you decide it is not, you stayed on the ride too long. Will anyone ever figure out the key, or does the lock keep changing? This one really gets the reader thinking, Thank You Hunter S. Thompson

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Summary: COVERS EVERY AXIS AND AVENUE OF A SERIOUS ACID BENDER
Review: OUTSTANDIN

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Summary: The Best I Have Ever Read
Review: Hunter Thompson was an author that i always never gave him his dues then i read this master-piece and my life has been changed always remember WE CAN'T STOP HERE IT'S BAT COUNTRY

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Summary: So nothing good happened inthe '70s? Wrong!!!!!!
Review: A friend of mine recommended this book to me, and told me a little about it before I borrowed it. I thought he was exaggerating it all, and then I read it. 26 times. Each time as good as the last. What Thompson has done is to make the world sit up and take notice of the collapse of confidence in the American Dream at a time when others were trying to sweep the shortcomings of their society under the carpet. His relating of this failure to the trends of the drug culture are sharp, exciting and downright hilarious. Here's looking to the next 26 reads!

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Summary: one of the best books I've ever read.
Review: this book is the embodiement of the american dream. Or, should I say it is a testament to why americanism failed. Thompson, eventhough he was trippin', and drunk and stoned, has written an american masterpiece in the truest sense.

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Summary: Iron Lung
Review: Dr. Thompson is the only man, the only human, on this earth who has given me hope. Obviously a genius, despite the massive quantities of chemicals consumed, he leads me to believe there is hope yet for one such as myself. I may still have functional brain cells. He's a doctor of journalism, dammit, and if you want the real behind the story from that era or the era of the present, this is the one to read. This story is real, from page 3 to 204, and I could die happy should I ever write anything as real and raw as this.

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Summary: MORE THAN JUST A DRUG CULTURE RIDE
Review: Most of the reviews of F&L only mention the drug culture aspects of the story. I think much more was trying to be said. It was about two guys desperatly trying to find any hint of the world they once knew. These guys were terrified of the brooding realities of the post-hippy era. You have to try and read between the lines in this story or you only get a romanticized accounting of the golden age of youth/drug culture, which is highly entertaining by itself.Probably the most intelligent assessment of the 60's.If your under 50 and not to hung up, you would have to love this book. Great artwork by Steadman too. 10stars!!!

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Summary: It's weird, it's twisted, it's great fun.
Review: As your attorney, I advise you to read the book and see the movie

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Summary: HST at his savage best!
Review: As you digest every word, you begin to feel higher and higher, as if some residue of the mass quantity of drugs, alcohol and various other barbituates HST consumes on his legendary journey to Vegas has somehow been slammed into your brain with maddening ferocity. But the more you read on, the less this feels like an all out attack on your senses and you surrender to the high and glide to the finish, awakened, rejuvenated, and reaching for whatever drug you can find.