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

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Summary: The greatest book ever
Review: I loved it!! Who wouldn't love a book about two guys incredibly stoned on all sorts of drugs one can think of, doing all sorts of strange stuff in vegas. I would recomend this book to all. My sister recomended this book as road trip reading. This book is colosest way to experience illegal drugs without risking jail time

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Summary: A Savage Groin-Punch at Nixon's Boxer Shorts
Review: This book changed me in a way that I have yet to determine. My friends and I have gotten high while passing this book around, along with the joint, reading passages aloud to enjoy the death of the American Dream in the only true, cerebral way possible. What can you say about a book that contains such classic lines as "As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the Goddam mescaline" and the seldom mentioned brutal ink drawings of Ralph Steadman. I have never had the balls to spend a weekend such as this, and probably never will. But the book is here for us Gonzo wannabees, to enjoy at our leisure, when the white picket fence and nagging wife become just to much for a guy of the 70's to bear....Enjoy!

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Summary: First Time Reader.....LOVED IT!
Review: Never before have i picked up a book by HUNTER. What a fool i have been I loved this book from cover to cover and can't say enough about it. I have truly found the american dream after reading this book, but i can't seem to find it now.

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Summary: Reader Participation
Review: This is the best damn book. But, it'll be better when you get all hopped up on weird drugs and read this book cover-to-cover in one weird drug-crazed attempt.

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Summary: My favorite book
Review: Sometimes viewed as a violent book about drugs and weirdness, sometimes a stark naked leap at the coprse of the dying American dream. I've even heard that people find this book to be funny... I can't say if any of these things are true. What I am sure of is that there are way too many God Damn bats, lizards and child raping banshees for this not to be clearly a true story.

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Summary: The bible of our generation,and all that that implies.
Review: If you were there, at the time, you know it's all true. It's the best book written on what happened to us. Very funny, yet so sad because it's all so true. You must read this book. END

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Summary: I'm flabbergasted
Review: This book is so incredibly fantastic that I'm often dismayed, and, in fact, slightly angered to discover, each time I enter a bookstore, that it has yet to be relocated to the shelf with the classics.

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Summary: Thompson offers a birds'eye view of the late 60's
Review: After reading the Hell's Angels I went out to look for all other HST novels to read to "get the feel ". This is maybe the best book I have read and also continue to read when I am down and even happy. Call it food for the mind or at least your animal urges. Word is, there is to be a movie with johnny depp as the lead role so look for new fans. The book never really lets you go and it is one of those that you feel sorry to have end. People have said that the end lets you down as HST leaves Veags, but for anyone who has even remotely been there the end is a fittng shot. A good idea would be to read the book and put together the soundtrack for it using hte song referances made in the book. I did and when you hear the stones, brewer and shippley "one toke over the line " you can really get into the book. Buy it and enjoy it.

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Summary: for best results . . .
Review: For best results . . . do as I did . . . I stayed up for 48 hours straight, then sat down and read Fear and Loathing in one straight shot, cover to cover in one sitting. Selah.

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Summary: Bats!
Review: THE classic Thompson. Some really great stuff here, a fun read. Starts to fall off toward the end, but the first half of the book sets an impossibly "high" standard. Steadman's illustrations are inspired.