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| |  | Animation | Home » » » Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream | | | | | | | Description: | | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Hunter S. Thompson | | Paperback:
| 224 pages | | Publisher:
| Vintage | | Publication Date:
| May 12, 1998 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0679785892 | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream -- Hunter S. ThomsonJul 27, 2010
I found a lot of the movie to be rather boring and slow. The book has a good pace to it and some of Thompson's observations, while on the assortment drugs taken through out the book, are laugh out loud funny. If you have seen the movie, you'll know a lot of the book line for line. Not much varies; at least for the first half.
It's a fun read. I enjoyed it enough to research a few of the drugs Thomson's character and is attorney take, and found out, some of it is down right fiction. Either way, it is an enjoyable read for a mature person.
 One of the best reads everApr 28, 2010
Could not put this book down. And I've read it at least three times now.
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 Maybe better for baby boomers?Jan 11, 2010
Rarely have I seen a book with so many glowing reviews, so most will disagree with me but here goes. Having read it today, it is mostly a drawn-out description of being high (to the point of near-death), and all the carnage that ensues. I wasn't really offended, but I didn't find it terribly funny or insightful either. I am giving it three stars for being 'colorful.'
What disappointed me was the unfulfilled promise of insight into the American Dream. I am open to questioning it, if I could be convinced that such a thing exists. (The quest for material comfort and meaning isn't it; that's almost universal). But I didn't find much insight into anybody but the two main characters, with whom I didn't identify. Nor do I identify with the straight-laced 50's culture they despised. Granted, Las Vegas seems a soulless place, even today, but didn't we know that already? I'm sure the indictments of Nixon and the Vietnam War were much more prescient in 1971. I do care about those things, but I've heard it all before.
I just don't identify with the characters enough (on either side) to feel either vindicated or indicted. Is it because I'm in Gen-X, and never shared the hope and excitement of 60's counter-culture?
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 Largely PointlessJan 05, 2010
I put Hunter S. Thompson on my reading list this month, since I haven't read anything book-length by him before. Sadly, I found Fear and Loathing to be mostly pointless. Undoubtedly, Thompson is a gifted writer; in the hands of a lesser talent, Fear and Loathing would be ridiculous rather than merely pointless.
The plot, such as it is, has been noted in other reviews so I won't attempt to recount it here. Fear and Loating reads like a poor man's Tom Wolfe. Thompson and his lawyer run around Vegas getting outrageously stoned and doing crazy things. Near the end, there's a fairly laughable attempt to make serious sense of the 60's drug scene, with some sort of quasi-justification of Hell's Angels founder Sonny Barger.
Is Fear and Loathing really bad? Not really. There's just not much of a point. It's another hopelessly dated, overhyped drug era entry praised by the same critics who still think Pynchon's relevant.
McLarty Honours HSTNov 06, 2009
As a Hunter S Thompson fanboy, I get pretty precious about how his legacy is maintained. A warm fuzzy feeling welled up in my gutty wuts as I listened to McLarty begin to narrate the immortal opening lines of HST's magnum opus. McLarty is a DAMN GOOD voice actor who is obviously a fan of the Duke's. He intimately understands the flow of Fear & Loathing and this comes across naturally in his reading. This audiobook definately adds to the holistic experience of this contemporary Yankee classic. God bless HST and kudos to McLarty.
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