Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The captivating memoir of countercultural journalism and social commentary (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Hunter S. Thompson

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

“KILL THE BODY AND THE HEAD WILL DIE”

Still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino.

Not on the surface, but underneath—poking up through that finely cultivated earth like some kind of mutant mushroom.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.