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Immerse yourself in the wild ride that is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. This Harper Perennial Modern Classic, published in 2005 by HarperCollins, takes you on a journey through the eyes of our protagonist, experiencing the highs and lows of the American Dream in the most surreal way possible. This paperback edition of 240 pages, with a height of 198mm and a width of 129mm, is perfect for those who love to indulge themselves in the Modernist literary movement. With its gripping narrative and realistic characterisation, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Biographies & True Stories, and the topic of Classicism.

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Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas...' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.

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HarperCollins
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9780007204496
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Book Title
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
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Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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198mm
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129mm
Item Weight
170g

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Hunter S. Thompson
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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United Kingdom

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by gnicholls-201213 Dec, 2018
Drug Fuelled Road Trip
Ahh! This brings back memories. The faces of unfamiliar people becoming gradually unrecognisable as the Acid melted their features and my brain. You knew the LSD was excellent when you couldn’t see because of the hallucinations. Having to pull over because the road was moving about too much. English Lake District rain that was so loud a single drop could be heard from twenty feet away. What happened to all that teeth-grindingly good Speed? Sound familiar? You’ll laugh out loud at the antics of the Reporter and his Attorney. The Terry Gilliam film with Johnny Depp and Benicia Del Torro recreates many of the scenes very well. Do some people still live like this?
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by micm_uk_fzsgbjp14 May, 2020
Gonzo Journalism at it's best
Funniest book I've ever read
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by haseldine200505 Dec, 2019
Says it all
The book is excellent as it is written in a compelling style.
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5 out of 5 stars
by andrewbuts1405 Apr, 2012
Awesomenes story, about two peoples who search the american dream..........
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas It's greatest book by Hunter S. Thompson Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "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 multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour. On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius.Read full review
5 out of 5 stars
by koolslabowski21 May, 2011
Excellent
Hunter s.thompson is driving to Las vegas with his attorney,the samoan,to find the dark side of the American dream.Roaring down the desert highway from Los Angeles,they realise there is only one way to go about such a perilious task getting very very twisted.

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