Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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Publisher Description
A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as “the best book on the dope decade” (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and an introduction by Caity Weaver
The inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro
“A scorching epochal sensation!”—Tom Wolfe
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, 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 experienced. The writer’s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out,” the book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of the 1960s, one of the defining works of our time and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Few have let their freak flag fly higher than Hunter S. Thompson did with this classic slice of early-’70s counterculture. In 1971, the famously unhinged Thompson and his sidekick Oscar Zeta Acosta made a couple of drug-fueled road trips to Las Vegas, which Thompson detailed in a series of Rolling Stone stories that were adapted into this game-changing novel. The somewhat fictionalized account follows Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo as they embark on epic marathons of esoteric drug abuse that distort their entire world into a fun house of outrageous ideas and absurd hallucinations. Even through all the chemical haze, Thompson’s storytelling instincts shine through in prose that’s both hilariously funny and mind-bending. Fear and Loathing is a unique read from a strange and singular author.
Customer Reviews
The American Dream
I thought that this was a beautiful and bizarre book. The theme of Gonzo Journalism really got my attention by putting Roaul as the center of his story on the "American Dream". I myself have become interested in drugs, particularily classic psychadellic drugs from the 60's, but the most you can get where Iive is grass and cheap knockoffs that have all sorts of horrible things in them. Nothing pure. This book really opened my mind to reading and I recommend this book be read by anyone who likes journalism or Hunter. I sure loved it.
Loved it...
This was the final book in my high school junior year english lit. course. It was thought provoking, honest, and put me off drugs for life!
What a ride!!!
U feel just as twisted as them on this "trip"!!