Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (CD-Audio)

from lydia1879

Oh boy. This book. I loved it, when I read it. It was one of my first audiobooks, and I used to listen to it on my Ipod when I was about 14 or 15. It's probably Thompson's most well-known book and, I would argue, one of his best. Now, make no mistake. Hunter S. Thompson was a problematic person. ...

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I never thought I'd ever read Hunter S. Thompson, but I came across this in a used bookstore and decided to give it a try. Definitely a dichotomy between Duke's excellent rants on the dishonesty of polite society and his scandalous escapades around Las Vegas. As was my reading it in several Crack...

from DinadansFriend

This book has precursors, the highly personal reporting of the American presidential campaigns by Norman Mailer, and Thomas Wolfe's study of Ken Kesey's societal experiments.. For a short period this trio contributed highly coloured but intelligent analysis of the actions of American society espe...

from bibliobibuli

Decided to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a little while back when Hunter S. Thompson's remains got propelled into the upper atmosphere. I felt embarrassingly ignorant because the book had completely slipped beneath my biblioradar. (How sad that it takes a suicide and a rocket-fuelled exit t...

from briandarvell

I didn't know what to expect when reading this. I was aware of it's popularity and the fame of the author. I haven't seen the movie yet either so I considered myself pretty much unbiased. Overall I enjoyed the novel and thought the story was very entertaining. It was a quick read and I didn't lea...