Just look at those brilliant opening lines. But to read it is also to unwind, to find yourself in that Freak Kingdom and get an idea of the crazy trip that you will never take. As a piece of writing, he described it as something he would do to unwind while working on the more serious story about racial issues in Los Angeles. “To actually get paid for writing this kind of manic gibberish seems genuinely weird ” he continues, “like getting paid for kicking Agnew in the balls.”īut it’s damn good that he wrote it. Only a goddamn lunatic would write a thing like this and then claim it was true.” Those are Hunter Thompson’s words in the jacket copy he wrote for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The Novel: “As true Gonzo Journalism, this doesn’t work at all – and even if it did, I couldn’t possibly admit it.

ML Edition: 1996 (gold cover Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories).

a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.”

Last Line: “I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger.

First Line: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: our three copies plus the filmįear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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