Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Book

In las vegas to cover a story the real story centres around their drug induced mania.

The first time i was 15 and it appealed to me for a lot of the reasons one would expect. A savage journey to the heart of the american dream was as is probably common the first book by hunter thompson i ever heard about. Thompson remains best known forfear and loathing in las vegas 1971 a book first serialized inrolling stone in which he grapples with the implications of what he considered the failure of the1960s counter culture movement. Thompson illustrated by ralph steadman.

Thompson s fear and loathing in las vegas is a giddy unpredictable and hilarious escapade of one journalist and his attorney s travels while on an exorbitant amount of drugs. Fear and loathing in las vegas hunter s. 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. A savage journey to the heart of the american dream is a 1971 novel by hunter s.

The book is a roman à clef rooted in autobiographical incidents. Fear and loathing in las vegas is the best chronicle of drug soaked addle brained rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. Since then i ve read it twice. Fear and loathing in las vegas.