About this title: A classic of American journalism from the aftermath of the '60s, Hunter S. Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, the chronicle of his life on the road and on drugs, was originally published serially in Rolling Stone in 1971. Dubbing himself a "Gonzo journalist," Thompson devoted his entire career to defining that term as a reporter whose ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679724193ISBN:0679724192
Description: Acceptable. Cover has some edge wear. Light soiling on sides of book. Slight corner creasing or edge wear. Minor water damage but content intact. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Rejected Items. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1998-05-12
ISBN-13:9780679785897ISBN:0679785892
Description: Very Good. This paperback book is very clean with clean edges, no writing on the inside pages. Cover has a little edge wear. The book is tight and is in very good condition. We have a 100% refund 5 day NO HASSLE return policy if you are not satisfied. -We ship daily with USPS Delivery Confirmation. read more
Description: Very good. 1998 Vintage Press Reprint 2nd Edition Softcover(Trade PB). Some wear to cover/page edges, text clean with strong binding. Ships Fast! read more
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679785897ISBN:0679785892
Description: Good + 5 x 8 trade paperback book. White and black lettering on the orange-red spine with a color illustrated cover. 204 pages. Lower edges of pages slightly wavy. Tight binding. Good + condition. read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679785897ISBN:0679785892
Description: VG++ No Jacket. Non Ficition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book is unread, but the last fifty pages have been exposed to moisture with a resulting roll to the pages. Bottom corner of the front cover is bent. This a great reading copy. read more
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books; Random House, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679724193ISBN:0679724192
Description: Steadman, Ralph. Very Good. Movie Tie-in. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 204 pp.; 21 cm. First published in one volume, 1972. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Edges lightly soiled. Stated "First Vintage Books Edition. " The gonzo journalist's masterpiece. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 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 ... read more
"The sublime object of the "American Dream" is achieved by our good "Doctor in Journalism" in this eccentric book. Many people flout the term American Dream without really understanding it's full implications. I will be the first to recognize that no one can really pin down the meaning of such a thing, but the fundamental aspects of it we can all agree upon: It entails absolute liberty to the point of it's abuse (interestingly enough, there is no word for this in the English language... looks like the anglophone people hold there liberty close to heart; in Spanish we have the term "libertinaje" that has no direct translation, basically meaning abuse of liberty.)
You don't need to understand the hallucinatory imagery to actually appreciate the book. Having previous experience with drugs and there effects are not required; but having first hand experience will make the images more lively and credible, yes, the stuff described really happens. Hunter describes in great detail the feeling of 'Metacognition' and paranoia, dysmetria and hallucinations.
But we are forgetting one thing, the book isn't about that!
This book is the flag-ship for Gonzo Journalism! The writing style is very polished and makes for an easy read (I wouldn't expect anything less from a doctor in Journalism.) Anyone that isn't immediately offended by the whole possibility of the use of illicit substances can enjoy the book and it's hilarious ramblings.
The whole concept that the book can open your eyes to the dark underbelly of "the true america!" are just misinformed, premature and read too much into the text. This is just a good story. A fun page turner. Enjoy."
"Profane and wickedly funny satire...I laughed out loud. Thompson is deft with language, even as his narrator is in a constant state of intoxication. (I read this book as a sorbet between long periods of reading Shadow Country by Peter Matthiesen; Fear and Loathing's flights of gross anarchy came as a relief to Shadow Country's somber genealogies.)
It is dated, but only in a way a time capsule is, its references to early '70's culture and counter-culture more descriptive and evocative than anything that could be written with the benefit of retrospect. Some of my laughter was in appreciation of Thompson's soaring hyperbole in his equating the madness of Las Vegas and its underground to the American Dream itself.
I have not seen the movie, and I don't know that I will, as Thompson's descriptions of outrageous people and drug-induced foulness is much funnier left to the imagination.
If there is any guiding literary weight to the book, it rests in snippets of (I assume) are actual newspaper articles depicting sordid crimes and other unusual incidents. Thompson reminds us that these shocking vignettes actually render his hilariously criminal behavior rather benign in comparison."
"It was an extremely wild trip to read this book, and the other short stories are good as well. To keep it short as many other better critics than I have written about this book, but I feel like I understand Colin Richardson much better after reading this book."
"I read this book as a teenager, and must say it had a profound comedic influence. I tried re-reading it recently and found it completely unpalatable. This led me to the inevitable realization that I perhaps am not aging as well as this insane little book. Oh well. Everyone should have a Hunter S. Thompson phase in late adolescence, and they should forever after try their hardest to avoid him."
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