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

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Summary: Brilliantly funny, vicariously scary
Review: This is such a funny and well-written book, you almost forget the underlying tragedy of the time depicted. Thompson's ability to describe events, places, and people is nothing less than miraculous, given how addled he was at the time. No one has ever nailed our culture with such a sharp eye.

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Summary: This book is a masterpeice of literature from the 70's!!
Review: The book is a masterpeice of the drug culture literature of the 70's. The drugs, acid, and events the main charcters were subject to really bring alive for me the drug culture and the acid revolution.

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Summary: This book was stupid
Review: Some people I know were reading this book so I though I might take it on. In the beginning I was quite compelled and couldn't put it down. But then I realized that the distorted narrative of a couple of junkies wasn't going to become any better and would only get miserable. Well, I think I abandoned this one half way through. I can't believe almost 100 people gave this book five stars!

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Summary: Better than the "classics"English teachers make you read.
Review: This book is a modern classic in itself. It is a lot more than some drug book. It's a look at the times from Hunter S. Thompson's eyes. It seems poetic the way he transfers thoughts and can make someone laugh. It is a must read. I couldn't put it down. For some reason you just can't seem to let go of the book. The odd flashbacks seem to keep you reading and helps you understand what it was like for him and a little pice of the American dream that people still search for, but can't seem to see because of the glare in there eyes formed by the shady governmeant and the somewhat scary facts of life which call to you from the heavens and keep you from climbing to the top of the mountain. He even shows it in the gritty way that you all really know it is. He doesn't try to clean it up. Pure unadulterated GONZO!

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Summary: The Greatest Film that No one Understands
Review: I got a lot more out of this movie/book than most people. It is a little monotonous, and you have to stick with it untill the end, but there really is a deep, insightful, meaning to it. It is all about how these two men travel around and do drugs and escape reality. There are a few lines close to the end that totally explain this story, if you can interpret them. What I think I comes out to is that the attorny (Dr. Green I think) is metaphorically the devil. He gives all the the advise to do drugs and all the bad things that they do. At the very end he explains that people can choose to follow the devil or god. The people who follow the devil come to be failed seekers and don't realize the profound understanding of god. They cant see that there is someone, or some force tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Summary: terrible youth reading
Review: As a wee lad in the age of innosense I was blessed with reading this at the tender age of twelve. The implications are staggering. Although I made it out alive, the blissful fond rememberances of yester-year plague my current rubbish life. A fantastic jurney into the dark spirals called the soul of a wrecked "horribly twisted" spastic man conversing at a "taco stand." No longer shall we be the same, bless the sun unto you HST.

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Summary: i love it
Review: I love this book it sums up my goals in life hard drugs good writing and good friends

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Summary: One giant long freaky acid trip, baby!
Review: As good as the movie is, the book is much better. Thompson's narrative rivals Kerouac's or Salinger's for tone and style but he tells a much more engaging story. "Raoul Duke" and "Dr. Gonzo" are two characters that you absolutely love to hate. You CANNOT be sorry for picking this one up!

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Summary: a psychadelic view into a journalist mind.
Review: a journalist takes a psychadelic journey into las vegas to cover a race. On the way they pick up a hitchhiker who they scare to death. the journalist and his samoan lawyer take multiple drugs and take multiple trips without leaving the city. The lawyer goes back to his homeland after he freaks out. the journalist then takes many drugs and finds out that he is supposed to cover an anti-drug convention with a sh--load of cops. this book is a great view of how people act and react under the influence of ether, adrenochrome, lsd, and marijuana.

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Summary: They are watching us all, but somehow they do not see us.
Review: Those not aware of the unrealities of the drug culture will scream and shout at this work, those that have been, or are inside its liquid web will laugh hysterically at the pointed humor contained. Some of the key sentences are so simple, yet the thought contained bend the rational part of the brain. This train of thought is DEFINITELY engineered.