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

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Summary: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the book of books!
Review: First of all, does anyone know how to send e-mail to Hunter S. Thompson himself? I also invite anyone to e-mail me, because no one ever does. Anyway, my name is Mark Aaron Platt, and I am a Rock and Roll guitarist. I just want to say that I am shocked by the faithless attitude that the hippie dream or the American Dream is dead! Are we all in ankle-chains working in some kind of prison-camp-sweat-shop-factory, chopping wood and welding bolts for a DICTATORSHIP? I don't think so! Listen, I am as wacked-out and brain-damaged as anybody else in the counter-culture, but after my mis-spent youth, I went back to computer school and WORKED HARD and got a 4.0, and I learned all the latest programs like QuarkXpress, and now I have a good old-fashioned employable and lucrative SKILL, and yet I still suffer from paranoid flashbacks twice a week, but I mix some REPUBLICAN WORK ETHIC in with my left-wing hippie dreams!!! Why did the peace and love movement of the late sixties fail? Because nobody put any HARD WORK into making their drug-crazed fanatisies of world peace come true! Oh sure, everybody gets disillusioned with the system, religion, and society, but nobody wants to put any real effort into changing society for the better! Do you people really think the conservatives and the police don't ever get drunk and do the silly dance at midnight while wearing lamp shades on their heads? Sure they do! But then they get up early and make it to work on time and they do their jobs hung-over and they make it happen! Yes, dreaming of social freedom takes courage and creativity, but making those dreams come true takes plain hard work! The conservatives don't hate trippy-hippies because hippies wear brightly colored shirts and pants, they hate lazy slackers who expect a free ride from the system! Make your hippie dreams come true by working hard, and have some faith in the Lord above that your dreams will come true with hard work, patience, and the formation of attainable and realistic goals!!! How about impressing the Invisible God with some faith during the hard times? Will you all merely rejoice in the Lord above during the good times and then curse and doubt the Lord above during the difficult times? That's not how George Washington and the freezing, starving, out-numbered troops at Valley Forge defeated the British!!! Those guys won on faith alone! Review the book? I don't need to review this book, I saw the movie! Hunter S. Thompson better pray to God that I never make it as a Rock Star, because then I'll find out where he lives, and I'll be in his kitchen twice a week ridiculing his lack of faith in the hippie dream!!! Have all the Hendrix and Beatles and Doors records been banned from all record stores everywhere by the cruel SYSTEM? Why don't you lazy hippies get off your Internet behinds and go down to the local record store and do a little old-fashioned investigative police work and find out for yourselves!!! I say Rock and Roll will never die because I refuse to let it die! The American Dream is alive and well and living in the hearts of every hard working American!!!

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Summary: a journey into the horrors of the jaded american dream.
Review: Upon reading the novel, one is taken in by the colorful imagery and seemingly sureal nature. It recieves high reccomendations as a student of politics and history it is definately an eye opener and the writings of Thompson have had a profound affect on the way i view my educational experience. Thompson tapps into a realm of understanding that I believe has been lost in society today as the world has been entranced in the throws of capitalism. If there were ever an author that has changed my outlook of things in general, Thompson is the one!!!

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Summary: Not just a drug book, but the search for the American dream
Review: Though many may criticise FEAR AND LOATHING for its incessant mention of drugs and drinking, they often overlook the main fact that this is not fiction. Everything mentioned here is real, so one can not candy-coat the fact that the seventies were a time when habitual drug usage was common (though maybe not to the extreme as Thompson delves). The real story in FEAR AND LOATHING was not the drugs, but two mens search for the American dream (whatever it may be). In the process Thompson weaves an interesting and hysterical tale of his journey to Vegas and all the wild events that unfold upon his arrival. The book is very enjoyable and good reading for anyone wanting a temporary break from the sanity of mundane life. Though Thompson does leave the reader wondering at the end whether or not the American dream was obtained and if so what it was.

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Summary: Wonderful, Romantic telling of an eventful trip to Las Vegas
Review: Very enjoyable book. Reminded at times of On the Road by kerouac. Brilliant analyzation of the emotions and feelings involved with various drugs and how they help you relate to American culture. Thompson has a great sense of humor and will send you into hysterics often. Great book.

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Summary: riding into fear and loathing
Review: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of the best of the modern picaresque American novels concerning dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the American dream; the warp between autobiography and fiction creates a larger-than-life illusion that perfectly illustrates Thompson's struggle between the American dream and its truth, and between reality and all that which is stranger than it. A classic American road story, a classic American novel, and an excellent narrative for its time.

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Summary: This book changed my life! It can happen to you too!
Review: When I first saw the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I thought that it was one of the most pointless boring movies I have ever seen. After reading the book, the movie makes wonderfully more sense and now it has become a timeless masterpeice to me just as the book was the first time i read it. The movie just took me a little longer to realize it. I look at everything conserning drugs differently now and would tell anyone who asked how absolutally wonderfull this book is as well as the movie.Just make sure you read the book first.

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Summary: laughed hard each of the three times I read the book
Review: The one liner summary will suffic

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Summary: Overrated and too Pro-Drugs
Review: This book started out good but after a while you get sick of reading about drug after drug, trip after trip. I expected to read a masterpiece, but instead I was throughly dissapointed. Other drug books (such as Clockwork Orange) have worked in so many more ways. This one just didn't quite cut it.

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Summary: 5 Stars! Hunter S. Thompson is...well...ummm..
Review: This book is the journy of a lifetime! You wont be able to let go of it. Or leave your chair for at least 24 hours after. Read the book before you see the movie--you wont regret it! For all the Thompson fans--check out his radical bio. written by E. Jean Carrol. Its all you ever wanted to know about Hunter and A LOT more!

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Summary: THE BEST FRIGGIN BOOK!
Review: I've read this book during this summer and I was amazed at the creativity Hunter S. Thompson has put into this book. Everything here's real too! Wow! Drugs, drinking, and swearing. This book it incredibily fun. I would recommend this to anyone who loves reading crazy books.