Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I didn't like this the first time I read it through but now I'm a fully paid-up member of the HST rabid fanboys club. People are free to take different things from it but, for me, it's a really sad scream into the existential void. The raw humanity at the heart of it is just... agh.

This was one of the easiest books for me to read. I could literally feel myself going wide-eyed, achieving the equivalent of a contact high from even reading about Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo. The drug-addled logic eventually starts to make sense in the reader's progressively twisting brain.

I wonder how much of this was true, how much of it he actually lived. As Gonzo jouirnalism is finding the Truth in a mix of the factual and fictional, Thompson throws the line demarcating the difference between the two out the window to die alone in the California desert.

A crazy messed up book that will make your head explode ...

One of the most revolutionary books ever written. It launched 'gonzo' journalism on the world in a big way. It's hysterically funny, wild and mad. No wonder Hunter blew himself up in the end.

...fantastically written. What a superb book and I'm sure we can all relate to it too in some way!