Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream | 
so-soThis one just wasn't for me. I've enjoyed some of Thompson's other writing - he can be brilliantly insightful and cutting, with an ability to call out hypocrisy and hold a mirror right up to your own face - but I struggled with this one, mostly just him and his attorney being out of their minds on drugs. Actually, it was great anti-drug propaganda 😂 I just kept thinking - do people do this for FUN?!😆 Anyway, it was worth the one-off read for me⬇
@julieclair is hosting a nonfiction challenge, and goodness knows I need the motivation! My husband loves nonfiction, and I always THINK I'm going to love NF, so we have quite the collection. As I've conveniently shelved it using the Dewey Decimal system, I am going to try to read a book from each category each month. The tagged book is considered “journalism“ and shelved in the 070s.
Raoul Duke is the MC in many of Thompson‘s works, most famously in the tagged book and its film adaptation - he portrays who Hunter S. Thompson really was as a true #AntiHero on a booze and drug-filled pilgrimage to Vegas. Enjoyed the book & film-Depp was perfect. Love how Nathan C‘s review describes Las Vegas: “a nightmare, a joke, a blunder of cosmic proportions-where Sin goes to die when it‘s embarrassed for itself” 😂 #VolumesAndVocals
#FirstLineFridays Not reading this currently but I am miles away from Barstow wishing SOMETHING would kick in.😁 Happy Friday , everybody!
pickI first read this about 15 years ago. I thought about it recently when I finished playing a game called Disco Elysium (check it out if you like this kind of stuff!) I set out to find it, at the bottom of a box, and boy am I glad i did. Every bit as good as I remember, insane and depraved and hilarious in parts, Thompson manages to nail a few home truths about friendship, drugs, Vegas, and humanity itself. A rollercoaster ride, no doubt!
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 270.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
pickHow can you not find this entertaining?!? Johnny Depp sure did a great job of bringing this character to the big screen. 👏
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks #ReadtheUSA2022 (Nevada)
#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: Fight Club
I'm currently reading On The Road, but I've recently come into possession of another copy of F&L and I'm tempted to reread it. How it works is I'll get a copy, keep it on me at all times, read and reread it cover to cover, then inevitably hand it off to the uninitiated. It's just a matter a time until I dive back into the habit haha
11-27-20: My 99th finished book of 2020! Definitely a wild ride in 1971, from California to Las Vegas, to cover two different journalism stories and ultimately find the American Dream. How one can do that on the amount of drugs Mr. Thompson and his attorney are on is beyond my comprehension. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #fearandloathinginlasvegas #huntersthompson 👍🏼📖#️⃣9️⃣9️⃣
No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride. And if things get heavier than you expected, chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion. Tune in, drop out, get beat.
pickI'll go through a phase where I'll get a new copy of Fear and Loathing, have it constantly on me as I read it over and over, until inevitably passing it on like gospel to someone new. It is not enough to call it a snapshot of history, although it does capture the fallout from the hope of the 60s as Thompson seeks and fails to find the American Dream, it is a constantly entertaining and insightful look on the self-destructiveness in modern society.
Day 3
A wild ride of a book criticizing the American dream. The 🎥 adaptation stays pretty true to the novel with an exception or two. Definitely not for everyone. Also a huge fan of Ralph Steadman‘s illustrations.
#whatsonyourshelf #fiction
panMaybe this only applies to me, but I just can‘t dig acid lit. Perhaps that‘s because I have never done acid, I don‘t know. I respect these books and the cultural movement that they arose from, but getting through one of these is agonizing. I will say that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is much easier to follow than similar works.
pickCompelling account of a crazy road trip - ostensibly to ‘cover a story‘ - by the godfather of Gonzo. Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover.
Pretty sure the characters spent most of the novel in a state of #oblivion in this disturbing book! #beautifulwords
panI seriously have no idea WTF I just read. This is just two dudes getting high and having bad trips. Literally nothing else happens.
#readyoursign #gemini ♊️ - published the year you were born
#QuotsyMay20
Day 20 - #Trial
*Quote may not be from tagged book, however the illustration is. ♥️
pickGlad I finally read this one. I‘m gonna have to procure a physical copy for myself.
panI can kind of see how it's supposed to be a social commentary on the fall of the American Dream of the late 60s early 70s. But it seemed more like a bunch of junkie jibber jabber to me, and gave me a headache while I read it. The movie wasn't much better, but I did like the cast. This one wasn't for me.
#AtoZ
Started this tonight and got sucked in. I figured it was an appropriate read, considering the date. Plus, it‘s exactly the amount of insanity I needed right now.
i got this book because i lost my last copy and i opened it up and read the first page and almost got sucked into reading it again. so great ✌🏽
panI didn‘t think I‘d like this and I was right - I didn‘t...
It was free on Libby and it‘s ticked off #nevada on #readingUSA2019, but other than that....nope.
Hooked_on_books, NatalieR, LapReader, Pamwurtzler, megnews, Librarybelle, Laughterhp, Samplergal, jessinikkip, MirrorMask“Just picture yourself telling a jury that you tried to help this poor girl by giving her LSD and then taking her out to Las Vegas for one of your special Stark-naked back rubs.”
He shook his head sadly. “You‘re right. They‘d probably burn me at the goddamned stake... set me on fire right there in the dock. Shit, it doesn‘t pay to try to help somebody these days...”
pickAn amazing and stunning story about the American Dream, the 60ies and drugs. A lot of drugs.
Our Doctor of Journalism and his attorney sure are on a #Detour while searching the American Dream. But I guess they don't really mind.
#LetsTravelJuly
Ummmm... hummmm...
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kx4g8/hunter-s-thompson-airbnb-writing-cabin...
pickRead this in high school- it was fun to revisit!
pickWonderfully weird!
I posted this last time this prompt came up - I cannot think of another book more suited so I‘m posting this again😊
#HighwayToHell
#MayMovieMagic
A kitty using my leg as a pillow and a book to read. What a good night. #catsoflitsy
I‘m back! Did you miss me? 😎 #tea
pickI really liked this one. The writing style worked for me.
It is rambling road trip travelogue told by a deeply unreliable narrator. And it has amazing energy and momentum.
#ReadHarder
#ReadHarder2019 - A book by a journalist or about journalism
Another out of context quote...
But that's the feeling of the whole book. The writing has so much energy. Even the moments of reflection aren't still and quiet, they're bursting with thought and motion.
I'm really enjoying this
#ReadHarder
#ReadHarder2019
A book by a journalist or about journalism
Trying to reboot a book jar practice I did once awhile ago: taking names of authors I've never read from a Strand bag, picking one and trying a book from them. I enlisted my fiancee's help for this pick (the photo session got a little silly, as all our photo sessions tend to do). Hunter S. Thompson is not someone I'd pick of my own free will, but the jar has spoken, so I'll give him a shot and see what happens!
I‘ll do the #MarchHare and the mad #Hatter in one book here. Because look at them. There‘s a hat (and Johnny Depp who plays Tim Burton‘s mad hatter) and a crazy friend, and their tea is of the Long Island variety, and they really know how to throw a party.
#CharactersLikeAlice
I haven't been sleeping well for the last couple weeks. And what else are you gonna do at 2:30 in the morning, besides shop for books online?
I blew my book budget on this first edition but I'll justify it as an investment. 😁 It's one of the better physical copies I've seen, and I've been hunting for this for years.
