Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the... by Hunter S. Thompson - Shelfari

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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

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Raoul Duke: Doctor of Journalism
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

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Hunter S. Thompson (Author)

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Ralph Steadman

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0679724192
Page Count: 204

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Dewey: 070.92

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