Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Pros: Great writing, quite funny, excellent illustrations
Cons: Too short

I have been trying to expand my reading tastes beyond Stephen King and had heard good things from this book. I know some of my friends liked the movie and after reading the back plot outline I knew this was going to be great. It was a great novel for its ...

Pros: Funny, Funny, Funny
Cons: Indulgence in drugs may offend some

Each of these things play a role in the wild-ride of book that is Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. There aren’t many books that can make me laugh out loud. But this one did. In fact, there were times when I was laughing so hard...

Pros: Breathtaking voyage into madness, great writing
Cons: keep away from youngsters

I still remember, all these years later, the sheer thrill of reading "Fear and Loathing" for the first time. I was a sophomore in high school. This was the era when I was discovering Nietzsche, Rimbaud, the Beats, the Grateful Dead and a...

Pros: Loathing
Cons: Fear

There are many ways to look at Hunter S Thompson’s most famous book, ”Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas”. You could see it as a documentation of the bitter post 60’s wake up call, the transformation of the most beautiful dream mankind ever had into a...

Pros: Savage writing, wicked humor
Cons: Definitely not for everyone

I have a close friend who wishes to God he were Hunter S. Thompson. For him, there would be no more ideal existence than to spend your employer’s money on a kit bag of hard drugs, trash hotel rooms, travel the country and interact with the citizenry...

Pros: WILD, DRUG-DRENCHED JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA.
Cons: I'M ACTUALLY WRITING ABOUT 'SCREWJACK'. HEH-HEH.

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A couple of years back I found out that my favorite writer, (well, LIVING writer anyway--c'mon-Melville,...

Pros: Brilliant writing, laughter
Cons: Very graphic language and pictures

Speechless, that is a word rarely used to describe me, but that is how this book left me. I wasn't appalled by the blatant abuse of drugs by Thompson and his faithful sidekick attorney, nor was I appalled by the impossible situations the pair got...

Pros: Reads Well, Honest
Cons: No cons.

After watching the movie and loving, then finding out that it was based on a book, I knew I had to read it.

It is a book about a documented drug orgy through the city of Las Vegas in 1971. Originally the author under a fake name and his soman...

Pros: Very Easy To Read, Wonderful Imagery
Cons: A Little Over The Top For Some People

This book is clearly twisted and sick. It is an expose on a drug-riddled reporter's view of that wonderfully Americana creation of Las Vegas. As Thompson travels under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke with his Samoan lawyer we get a great view of Las Vegas...

Pros: crazy, humorous, crazy, fast paced, crazy, drugs, crazy, bold, crazy
Cons: Somebody stole my book!!!!!

I can hardly imagine that the two main characters, Dr. Gonzo and his autorney actually did that many drugs! Anybody who would do drugs in such an extreme amount WOULD do things that crazy! Who ever thought of driving on acid and checking into a hotel?!?!...

Pros: Short. Fast. To the point. Twisted truth is scary.
Cons: Maybe TOO short.

The book starts out like a rush frenzy just as if a person is shooting up. You're taken into a world that can never be described in words. Hunter S. Thompson weaves a classic of his time, where drugs, booze and sex are everyday norms. With the the first...

Pros: great fun, a creative sense of humour
Cons: I couldn't find much I didn't like about it

Out of all the drug adventure books I have written, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of the trippiest stories I have read. When I read Trainspotting, I didn't get the same feeling for the characters as I did in this book. The characters in this book...

Pros: A journey into the human experience...real life, twisted beyond recognition
Cons: Madness...absolute madness.

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson describes an insane time spent searching for "the American Dream". What he finds is a place so corrupt, and so much the antithesis of the 60s that the only way to properly experience it...

Pros: Great laugher and fun times
Cons: nothing

Well to start off this is probably the most known work of our fine author. But I must also say right off that this book is a complete fluke! Not that I do not love it but Thompson is a political writer (most of the time).So it goes without saying that...

Pros: all
Cons: none

The movie and Johnny Depp were good. The book was better. I went on a trip this summer and I got to see some of the places in Las Vegas and the California desert that Hunter S. Thompson wrote about, and I was so excited. The people who embarked on the...