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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol
This book was wild. I have never heard of some of the drugs he used. The author was crazy but he made an interesting read. Mental pollution at its finest. You can't make stuff like that up with out living in the drug fused highly competitive world of Gonzo journalism.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Drug addled Don Quixote and Sancho Panza looking for American dreams instead of wind mills. Funny but dated and trifling.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“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-coloured 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.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
I’m looking forward to reading the sequel about Richard Nixon.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
I’m looking forward to reading the sequel about Richard Nixon.
challenging
dark
tense
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
adventurous
funny
tense
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
“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride… and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well… maybe chalk it off to forced consciousness expansions. Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
I started and finished this book today. It had a little to do with the time I spent in the dentist’s waiting room, the car, and then my bed at the end of a horrible day.
So. I’ve been turning the entire book over in my head since I started reading it. Most of the time, my origin doesn’t matter when I’m reading — my education is vast enough to be aware of difficult cultures in detail. Sometimes, though, I feel like if I was from a certain country or time, the book would make more sense or mean a lot more to me. Fear and Loathing is one of those books.
Hunter Thompson is, of course, out of his fucking mind. The entire book is one page after another of ridiculous stunts that are difficult to absorb through writing, much less experience. Thompson dedicated the book to “Bob Dylan — for Mr Tamborine Man”. So, for the last 50 pages, Dylan was all I listened to (Bringing it All Back Home and The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan albums). This did sort of have an effect on my mood when I finished.
It didn’t enrage me. It didn’t shock me to the core. But it did surprise me. I see it mainly as a study into mankind and to the lengths people would travel rather than the search for the American Dream. Of course, you could say that Thompson wanted it to be a self-reflection— he is living the “American Dream” in the sense that he has fame, money, recognition. Maybe Fear and Loathing is a testament to how far he would go to obtain or keep a hold of them. Who knows.
This was an interesting read.
I started and finished this book today. It had a little to do with the time I spent in the dentist’s waiting room, the car, and then my bed at the end of a horrible day.
So. I’ve been turning the entire book over in my head since I started reading it. Most of the time, my origin doesn’t matter when I’m reading — my education is vast enough to be aware of difficult cultures in detail. Sometimes, though, I feel like if I was from a certain country or time, the book would make more sense or mean a lot more to me. Fear and Loathing is one of those books.
Hunter Thompson is, of course, out of his fucking mind. The entire book is one page after another of ridiculous stunts that are difficult to absorb through writing, much less experience. Thompson dedicated the book to “Bob Dylan — for Mr Tamborine Man”. So, for the last 50 pages, Dylan was all I listened to (Bringing it All Back Home and The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan albums). This did sort of have an effect on my mood when I finished.
It didn’t enrage me. It didn’t shock me to the core. But it did surprise me. I see it mainly as a study into mankind and to the lengths people would travel rather than the search for the American Dream. Of course, you could say that Thompson wanted it to be a self-reflection— he is living the “American Dream” in the sense that he has fame, money, recognition. Maybe Fear and Loathing is a testament to how far he would go to obtain or keep a hold of them. Who knows.
This was an interesting read.