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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

28 reviews

elisazouza's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Just finished Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson which has left me incredibly speechless. I will be leaving a full in depth review on my Goodreads and my YouTube channel soon! (May film the video review tomorrow!) I’m just in awe of the beauty and hold this book has on me now. It’s my boyfriends favourite book and now I understand why. As soon as I finished it, I was disappointed in the way that I was no longer going to have fun with raoul duke and his attorney but the book finished in the most beautiful and shocking way which leads you to a conclusion but still a mystery of knowing that they never found the American dream and it’s all essentially an image based fantasy that you see everywhere. Plus the way they took the drugs, seemed like it almost intensified how dramatic and psychedelic the experience of America and Vegas is like. Vegas was almost more shocking than the crazy amount of they took and Hunter has an incredible way of prose and making you feel like you’re with them seeing the rose coloured glasses getting taken of in order to see the reality and overly emphasised version of America everywhere. I also liked how you could see Duke and Hunter himself as a writer was hoping for hope, considering he lived the sixties and was hoping that was still alive but it was not. He just reveals the truth in all ways possible in the story and for the reader and is like, look. We’ve reached this point and it is not how we imagined it to be and that is way more shocking than what the characters did. I’m going to talk more about this in my YouTube review video, but yes an incredible read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-5 stars but actually way more than 5 haha
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angel_kiiss's review against another edition

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I mean, yeah, it’s a really good book, but it’s also just 200 pages of a man telling us about all the things he got away with in 1971. Also massive trigger warning for slurs and totally uncalled for violence against women
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paulines_reading_journal's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny fast-paced

3.75

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carlitabeth's review against another edition

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adventurous dark fast-paced

4.0

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vgdavies03's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark funny reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

wild
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toasterposter15's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced

5.0

An amazing book. I love the way it’s written and it’s so funny. There’s very few scenes where I don’t die laughing. It’s everything I want in a book. It is a book where nothing and everything happens. It’s hard to describe. Is it a little problematic? Yes it is but it’s written by a white man so what did you expect? 
My favorite scene come when they go to the cop convention and tell one of the cops that they are starting to cut the heads off of drug users
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cicely's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced

4.0

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alexalily's review against another edition

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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