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

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Summary: an anti-pop culture wake into a electric vibe.
Review: This book drops the responsobilities of the scapegoat modern era, and takes you into a world, that is a virtual fantasia of super cool conceptions of a time where people like this roamed free.

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Summary: A Classic "Counterculture" Novel
Review: This book is a must-read for all people interested in great writing, mind-expanding drugs, and/or Hunter S. Thompson. Although the book is usually referred as a "drug culture classic" it is less about drugs and more about people, in general. It describes life in the jaded years following the Summer of Love. While discussing drugs and also their effects on the body, Thompson also shows a deep understanding of human emotions. The book is amazing. Check it out!

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Summary: DRUG GENERATION INCARNATE!!!
Review: Read it, love it the american dream is only one turn away............But if you make the wrong turn your in BAT COUNTRY.

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Summary: The pinnacle of HST's writings, a must read!
Review: This book is the top of the heap in counter culture writing, HST's most famous of adventures somehow recorded in pages for us to read. This book is a foray in drugs and adventure in search of something that is long gone. Madness abounds in this journey of two friends influenced by a plethora of drugs the entire trip, doing things that would not fly these days, landing a man in prison or a mental ward. Riotous and an easy read, hard to put down once you get started and a book I've read more than three times now due to its greatness. A must Read for anyone into drug indused antics and folkloric excursions for the Holy Grail of any meaning whatsoever. A jsutifiable fart upon the post hippie madness of a nation lost.

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Summary: Genius at work
Review: This is either a fantastic work of fiction or Mr. Thompson has the physical and mental constitution of a Titan. Apart from marvelling at the gargantuan intake of illegal substances, which if one is not careful can obscure the writing, one has to admire the seriousness of the message: are drugs a symptom of the times being written about, or the only way to survive in a world gone mad. Although the book's hero spends the duration of the book either stoned, drunk or both he still comes across as the only likeable character in the book and the only one demonstrating any vestige of honesty or humanity. It is ironic that it was written pre-Watergate as his judgement on the values of the era are frighteningly accurate. A stunning piece of work.

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Summary: A trip to take.
Review: Fear and Loathing has everything you could every want from a book, it has action, a good story behind it, a little bit of violence and a lot of drugs. I read this book twice just days after the first time I read it, it is so good you need another dose.

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Summary: Twisted journeys
Review: For those who want to know what it's like to take drugs without the risk, read this book. I have never taken illegal drugs, and after this book, I'm convinced I don't want to. Many people are disgusted with the "depraved" activities these two men engage in, but from reading the book you get the impression that they were on drugs the whole time, and not really reasoning that well. At least, that's what we'd like to tell ourselves. But really, Dr. Thompson makes many intelligent and incisive comments in the book. He shows a world where reality and real people can be more twisted and stupid than a drug trip. It's no wonder the drug culture survived the sixtys and is alive even now. However, I believe that we can deal with reality and real people, and should do our best to help people fed up with and hiding from what they percieve as the real world. Dr. Thompson sums up why people take drugs with his quote at the beginning of the book; "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." Read this book. It's smart and funny, and you'll get insight into the drug mentality, if you're mature enough.

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Summary: Excellent, nobody can explain the madness, not even Hunter S
Review: Great book, not for the informed press. Nobody wants to live those days except for the people that can either except or authenticate the times well spent. Leave it alone, but read and enjoy the ride. Do not try this at home. Great work, Hunter. Too bad I wasn't there. NATE

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Summary: bad craziness
Review: A knock down dragged out punch in the head to all the people that didnt want to see what was going on in the 60's Hunter S. is a man for all seasons this book is like the merry-go-round bar in Circus Circus we go round and round in life just waiting for someone to blind side us off the hellacious thing only to find out it was done for our own good this book does that as it makes you keep your eyes open into the next millenium.

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Summary: Nice piece on the drug generation
Review: Thompson writes a pretty good book on the reasons the drug culture flourished after the sixtites. Since I wasn't even alive then, I think I got a pretty interesting perspective as to why so many people in the seventies dove head first into all the drugs. Yet in some chapters, I got dissapointed and frusterated because of the seemingly aimless and tedious fascination with the drugs. Only in several of the chapters when the main character is not completley stoned are there some rather memorable reflections by Thompson.