Dan's review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
Dan's review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Dan's review
rating:
recommended for: people who like drugs, hippies, freaks, americans
I was somewhere on the first page when the drugs began to take hold (of the protagonists.) Apparently, they were on the edge of the desert, somewhere near Barstow.
This book is amazing. This counter culture classics is one of my favorites.
Often criticized (alternately praised) as pro-drug, I did not get that impression at all. This book is about drugs and America. But it isn't necessarily for or against either one of those.
When Hunter wrote this, America was in the depths of assault by the counter culture while Nixon was waging war on everything from the pinkos to the drugs undermining our society. The "square" society criticized the counter culture and vacationed in Las Vegas. As HST described it: "What the whole world would be doing if the Third Reich won." Its drugged out freaks doing the straight thing, looking for the American dream and coming up short.
The book is equally critical of the decadence of straight Americans and the drug induced...more
This book is amazing. This counter culture classics is one of my favorites.
Often criticized (alternately praised) as pro-drug, I did not get that impression at all. This book is about drugs and America. But it isn't necessarily for or against either one of those.
When Hunter wrote this, America was in the depths of assault by the counter culture while Nixon was waging war on everything from the pinkos to the drugs undermining our society. The "square" society criticized the counter culture and vacationed in Las Vegas. As HST described it: "What the whole world would be doing if the Third Reich won." Its drugged out freaks doing the straight thing, looking for the American dream and coming up short.
The book is equally critical of the decadence of straight Americans and the drug induced...more
