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![]() ![]() Utter tosh! I really don’t see the point of this nonsense. A book about two wastrels getting wasted and pretending they are cool is of no interest to me. So in this book the author (this is a fictionalised account of a true event) and his lawyer take loads of drugs and drive about as if they are cool hipster gods when they’re just a pathetic waste of space. If this is typical of his work I have no idea why. Thompson spoken about in revered tones like he is some kind of God. Along with his best-known novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, several of his works have been adapted into films that demonstrate Thompsons unusual lifestyle and view of the world. I’ve never seen the movie and now I know why. PART 4 April 2005, ebook, 91 pages, borrowed from #PrimeReading)īoy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a rancid turd. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Thompson’s musings on the collapse of the American Dream. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. ![]() I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded maybe you should drive …”’ ![]() ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. ![]()
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