Tiffany's review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
Tiffany's review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Tiffany's review
rating:
bookshelves:
read-once
recommended for: Aging drug addict hippies, current drug addict hippies, hipster literary types
** spoiler alert **
Maybe it was because this was my first time doing an Audiobook; maybe it was because it was my first time doing an Audiobook and I didn't love the narrator's style (Ron McLarty, for any interested parties); but I didn't quite get the greatness of this novel.
Beyond the Audiobook thing though, I think I'm just a bit jaded to the 'drug scene' stories. Of all people, Heath Ledger said it well about one of the films he was in, playing a junkie: "We all know how to play a drug addict by now, it's been so well-documented." That's kind of how I felt reading (or listening, rather) to this story. Not ever having been a drugs enthusiast myself, perhaps I can't appreciate the right-on-edness of Thompson's telling, but after having seen Requiem for a Dream, Blow, even watching fricking Dave Chapelle imitating a crackhead, it was all lost on me. I felt like I'd heard/seen it before, and so by the end, it all went a bit flat for me.
But to give it its due (and explain its two st...more
Beyond the Audiobook thing though, I think I'm just a bit jaded to the 'drug scene' stories. Of all people, Heath Ledger said it well about one of the films he was in, playing a junkie: "We all know how to play a drug addict by now, it's been so well-documented." That's kind of how I felt reading (or listening, rather) to this story. Not ever having been a drugs enthusiast myself, perhaps I can't appreciate the right-on-edness of Thompson's telling, but after having seen Requiem for a Dream, Blow, even watching fricking Dave Chapelle imitating a crackhead, it was all lost on me. I felt like I'd heard/seen it before, and so by the end, it all went a bit flat for me.
But to give it its due (and explain its two st...more
