"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a well known book by self-dubbed 'gonzo journalist', Hunter S. Thompson. This drug laden tale is a common part of many high school curriculum and was made into a motion picture starring Johnny Depp and Benecio del Torro in 1998.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.”
“But what was the story? No one had bothered to say. So we would have to drum it up on our own. Free enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. Do it now: pure Gonzo journalism.”
“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.”
“But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.”
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
“We can't stop here. This is bat country.”
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers ... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.”
“One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, is that everything is serious. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug-especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes.”
Preceded by American Psycho, and followed by A Brief History of Time.
Preceded by The Book of Daniel, and followed by Group Portrait with Lady.
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