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Title	:	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Cánh Cửa Mở Rộng)
Author	:	Hunter S. Thompson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Second Vintage Books Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 204 pages
Published	:	June 1998 by Vintage Books (first published July 7th 1971)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk. Science Fiction Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Speculative Fiction

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Cánh Cửa Mở Rộng) Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

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I recently went to Las Vegas for the first, and probably only, time in my life. I hadn't read this book in years, and previously, it hadn't even been my favorite Hunter S. Thompson work. Thompson is dearly missed by many people, and on a personal level, I miss him deeply. He spoke to a true astonishment at the complete, unrelenting fuckedupedness of America and her politics, and he did it with a bite that was deserved and unmatched. He probably could have been a very rich super-novelist of popular, uninspired filth. He probably could have been a brilliant novelist of any kind. But he chose to do what he did, and he did it better than any of his generation. Like Mark Twain, he chronicled American stupidity in the tongue of his generation, and he captured it perfectly, from the insanity of the drug experience to the depravity of American politics. For years, no work of his stood out to me as much as Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 or the Gonzo letters. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to me, wasn't his best work. Then I went to Vegas. Suddenly, all the subtle differences between this and his other work made sense, and I realized that he had captured the true tackiness of the truest tacky city on the entire planet (though Dubai with their fucking Island fantasies are likely to take over soon). Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas IS Las Vegas. It's a nightmare, a joke, a blunder of comical, cosmically-fucked proportions. It's not Sin City. It's where Sin goes to die when it's embarrassed for itself. It's where families go on vacations with ten-year-olds, children who get handed fliers for prostitutes. It's the living, pulsing, filthing embodiment of the Holy Dollar. It's sensory overload on a scale drugs can't equal, a place where you almost have to take a brimful of Valium and a pint of ether to feel normal and not feel utterly ashamed at the state of the human condition. It would make you want to blow your brains out if it weren't so goddamned fun, even if you're gay, you hate gambling and hookers make your brain itch. Yet you never, ever feel like it is evil or subversive or curious in any way. It's just about a buck, and every other blink reminds you of it. This is a place where Hunter S. Thompson could easily mingle with a law enforcement convention and not get noticed. This is a place where a lawyer could leave you with a hotel bill. This is a place where no questions get asked because no answers would make sense, and the only thing profound about any of it is that you know, on a gut level, that all the oil used to produce all the plastic used to build that city no doubt funded an island shaped like Australia that was built off the coast of the UAE over the weekend. This novel will never cease to be important, and one day, as a cultural artifact of a forgotten culture from a forgotten nation, it will be one of the most important anthropological pieces in existence.

I wish he'd survived the Bush administration. We need this man.

NC

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Original Title:	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
ISBN:	0679785892 (ISBN13: 9780679785897)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Cánh Cửa Mở Rộng
Characters:	Hunter S. Thompson
Setting:	Las Vegas, Nevada,1971(United States) Nevada(United States)

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I recently went to Las Vegas for the first, and probably only, time in my life. I hadn't read this book in years, and previously, it hadn't even been my favorite Hunter S. Thompson work. Thompson is dearly missed by many people, and on a personal level, I miss him deeply. He spoke to a true astonishment at the complete, unrelenting fuckedupedness of America and her politics, and he did it with a bite that was deserved and unmatched. He probably could have been a very rich super-novelist of

A long drug- and alcohol-frenzied week in Las Vegas. This is written by Hunter Thompson, long-time editor of Rolling Stone, so we know he knows firsthand about what he writes about. I imagine this is one of the best portrayals of what is like to go through life in a drug-frenzy, but the story is laced with humor. It's not great writing, or even good writing, but it holds your attention in the way a magazine column does. But even wild antics can get tedious night after night in a drug-filled

Fear and Loathing captures the experience of visiting Vegas expertly. It's flashy and in-your-face and fun. Hunter S Thompson has a way with words and characters that immediately draw you into his absurd, drug-filled chronicle. Coherency isn't really his strong point, though. So like Vegas, it severely lacks substance. The chapters ramble along like episodes in a sitcom. All the tangents and digressions and paranoid hallucinations are page-turners for sure, but they don't really connect or go

A co-worker, whom happened to be completely insane, sized me up once and told me I was ready. He handed to me a VHS tape bearing the title, "Where the Buffalo Roam". At the time I was living a lifestyle of depraved decadence and over consumption of massive amounts of drugs and booze. While this particular journey had many peeks and valleys the next step in my literary evolution took place under a haze of pot smoke, a quart of rum and a pack and a half a day tobacco habit. After watching the

There is a CD with bits from this book performed by a bunch of the original SNL cast and writers. It is one of the best audio comedic CD's I have ever heard. Ruined the book slightly, but any fans IMO should seek it out. It is really well done and way better than the movie in my opinion. I liked the book but because of above CD was a little let down.Added to original review:Just re-read, liked it even more now. Longing to hear the above mentioned cd but loaned it to somebody, who I guess thought

Update Silent censorship by Goodreads. At the bottom. It wouldn't be relevant here.I read this years ago and reviewed it, but it seems to have disappeared from my booklist. Did I blot my copybook by slagging off the author's major drug and alcohol habits and thereby get it deleted or what? It's not like the author could object as a) he's dead and b) he was proud of his prodigious consumption of substances that got him off his head. Or was it just the GR monster, munching away, like a moth, holes

4 STARS! ⭐⭐⭐⭐This book was just wild. This could be a manual on what drugs not to take at one time! during a long weekend in Las VegasOR...its a guide in how to be so bat shit crazy on drugs, while concocting stories and conversation, that youll avoid getting arrested.Why and how can that be?Because who gets that close to a lunatic who's having an acid trip that wants to buy an ape in Circus Circus while taking more drugs and booze?! 🤣😂I enjoyed this one and glad that I finally read it!This book