Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

The beginning of my journey within the book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, began with a quote, "This book is the final word, a brilliant vision, a terrible magnificently funny telling of what happened to this country in the 1960's"-Lucian K. Truscott IV, Village Voice. This quote earged my finishing the book. Also previously, I have saw the movie coinciding with the book. "A savage journey to the heart of the American dream", the soul storyline of both the movie and the book. This journey to fulfil the knowing of the American dream, beings and ends with a drug frenzy. However, twisted, wasted, hopped, basically stoned out of your head, life makes perfect sense. Duke, a young journalist, fresh from the drug culture of the 60s, arrives in Las Vegas, to cover the annual 1971 bikers race out in the desert with his good friend, Dr. Gonzo who is Duke's so called lawyer. Both arrive in a fancy white sports car, dubbed the Great White Shark, zonked out on drugs and intend to remain that way. Later receiving a new assignment to cover the annual Law Enforcement Meeting On Drugs. While "covering the meeting", both men generally scare the tourists, and annoy the natives. Along the way trippy situations occur, usually with our protagonists sniffing, smoking, or chewing something. They pick up a hitchhiker, ruin a hotel room, and harass a car full of poor, old Southern folk. "All under the safety of a fake name, of course." Not once during the book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was I lost, or uninterested. This book was a wonderful collection for the author, Hunter S. Thompson and marvelous piece of writing incorporating the way of life of an other's point of view.