Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

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

20 reviews

stephmgray's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

One of my all time favourite books. Has a very enjoyable level of chaos. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug use

iris_garden's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Racial slurs, Excrement, and Vomit

vgdavies03's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

wild

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

marisa_thorne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

toasterposter15's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism and Rape

There is a lot of drug use in the book and at one point a character spirals thinking people are after him

fionac326's review

dark fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, and Vomit

Moderate: Homophobia and Violence

cicely's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Vomit

doomluz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative lighthearted tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

jefflypuff's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

2.5

I honestly don’t know if I liked this book... it was all over the place and quickly moved from funny to maddening, from believable to unlikely, and would quickly jump between places/characters that haven’t been introduced yet

On one hand

it did feel like I was on the drug trip with them

, but it didn’t seem particularly fun... perhaps that’s the point of the book?

I’m less enthusiastic about the book after finding out it is allegedly nonfiction, because frankly it seems very very unlikely- although

If he did even half the drugs he claims then maybe he THINKS that’s how it happened

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Violence

alexalily's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Rape, Blood, Police brutality, and Kidnapping