Hunter S. Thompson

a savage journey to the heart of the American dream

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

i enjoyed this far more at fifteen that i did just now, at twenty two, but it's still an absolute classic. a surreal novel that manages to feel gritty and real without feeling heavy or dark. whatever terrible things happen, they simply slide off the narrative, the whole story being coated in a veneer of sublime confusion. an absolute classic. 

Avarni B

Katherine 

This book made me feel a whole lot better about any/all illegal drugs I have ever done.. because Hunter S. Thompson and his "lawyer" have done a billion times more. And he's a famous writer! SHIT YO! 

Anyways, the book closely approximates the movie, so if you don't like reading you can just watch that. Plus, Johnny Depp is a fox. Even in a Hunter S. Thompson costume.

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was ok.

Fun at times, dumb at times, repetitive at other times, I see no secret meanings and whatnot and there's no bases on all that shit, other than reviews going on and on about it, what I DID read however was 2 people having fun doing drugs laughing freaking out and getting into trouble like they're kids but more dangerous.. 

It's funny sometimes, but overall it's kinda boring, sure it's written great, but there's no story here and it it is, it's just about a road trip and drugs. 

Going to watch the movie and see if that's gonna make it any better, but yeah. Wouldn't recommend the book.

Gavin

Tremendous prose and fantastic drawings, but at the end of it all he wasn't saying much.

Elisa Benaggoune

If you don’t want a boring book- this is the one. 

I’m just in awe of the beauty and hold this book has on me now. It’s my boyfriends favourite book and now I understand why. As soon as I finished it, I was disappointed in the way that I was no longer going to have fun with raoul duke and his attorney but the book finished in the most beautiful and shocking way which leads you to a conclusion but still a mystery of knowing that they never found the American dream and it’s all essentially an image based fantasy that you see everywhere. Plus the way they took the drugs, seemed like it almost intensified how dramatic and psychedelic the experience of America and Vegas is like. Vegas was almost more shocking than the crazy amount of they took and Hunter has an incredible way of prose and making you feel like you’re with them seeing the rose coloured glasses getting taken of in order to see the reality and overly emphasised version of America everywhere. I also liked how you could see Duke and Hunter himself as a writer was hoping for hope, considering he lived the sixties and was hoping that was still alive but it was not. He just reveals the truth in all ways possible in the story and for the reader and is like, look. We’ve reached this point and it is not how we imagined it to be and that is way more shocking than what the characters did. I’m going to talk more about this in my YouTube review video, but yes an incredible read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-5 stars but actually way more than 5 haha it has left me speechless.

Gillian Rose

I should have known I wasn't going to like this much as I didn't care for On the Road and Kerouac. Meandering stories about drugs and traveling just do nothing for me. There was a bit of dark humor at times, but they were sexist and racist and overall, it was an unpleasant experience.

Nicholas Laurie

I don’t really know what to say about this one…I liked it? 3.5 stars for the drug use? 

If you've seen the movie you don't need to read the book. They nailed it so perfectly what you see is what you get. A fun read. 

This cult classic of gonzo journalism 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 undertaken. Now a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Udit Desai

Cool illustrations and wild stories but also just guys doing drugs

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Vincent Weisz

A mental trip across the lands of freedom to explore the American wildlife in all of its glory. Drugs might have been in play.

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas a savage journey to the heart of the American dream

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