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Saturday April 19, 2008 - 10:15 AM
amazing book, amazing writer.
nuff' said.
Saturday April 19, 2008 - 8:12 AM
goooooooooooooooooooooooooood read!!!
Saturday April 19, 2008 - 3:37 AM
Seriously love this book... amazing.
But seriously you people 1. need to realize this is a book review, not movie. and 2. need to go read other things he's written...
Personally I love the rum diary, but thats a different review all together, that would go on for ages.
As for this book, it really is something you pick up, and can't put down till its finished... then read it again lol.
Amazing writer who is dearly missed. 
*sigh*
Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 1:39 AM
The book is much better than the movie.
You actually get the full story, or whatever he was able to write down accurately.
For fans of this work, the movie "Where The Buffalo Roam" with Bill Murray is also a must see, but id recommend reading this book first
Sunday September 30, 2007 - 1:32 PM
THIS SHIT SUCKED! THE BOOK AND THE MOVIE WERE LAME AS HELL!
Sunday September 30, 2007 - 12:27 PM
Honestly people, read the book before you watch the movie. You will understand what's going on a lot more, because they go into so much detail in the book and just skim through events in the movie. They seem to do a lot more drugs in the book than in the movie as well, and there are some really creepy pictures illustrated in the novel.
Both are very good movies though.
Thursday September 13, 2007 - 9:33 PM
I haven't read the book, but...........it is a bad ass movie, and I still love watching it and trippinn balllz..... mmmm acid mmmmm shrooms, come ta mamma...lol
Thursday September 06, 2007 - 7:52 PM
Did a book review for it for a psych class. We had to show some work the book inspired us to do... I got wasted and came to class.
Wednesday May 16, 2007 - 12:28 AM
Sunday April 15, 2007 - 5:55 PM
Thursday March 22, 2007 - 7:36 PM
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DAMN GOLF SHOES?!!?!?!
Thursday March 22, 2007 - 6:11 PM
The book was of course a work of art, the greatest speech was when Hunter S. Thompson quote's "the wave". This excerpt is taken directly from the movie script.
Strange memories on this nervous
night in Las Vegas.
Has it been five years? Six? It
seems like a lifetime -- the kind
of peak that never comes again.
San Francisco in the middle sixties
was a very special time and place
to be a part of. But no
explanation, no mix of words or
music or memories can touch that
sense of knowing that you were
there and alive in that corner of
time and the world. Whatever it
meant.
THERE WAS MADNESS IN ANY DIRECTION,
AT ANY HOUR... YOU COULD STRIKE
SPARKS ANYWHERE. THERE WAS A
FANTASTIC UNIVERSAL SENSE THAT
WHATEVER WE WERE DOING WAS RIGHT,
THAT WE WERE WINNING. AND THAT, I
THINK, WAS THE HANDLE -- THAT SENSE
OF INEVITABLE VICTORY OVER THE
FORCES OF OLD AND EVIL. NOT IN ANY
MEAN OR MILITARY SENSE; WE DIDN'T
NEED THAT. OUR ENERGY WOULD SIMPLY
prevail. We had all the momentum;
we were riding the crest of a high
and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later,
you can go up on a steep hill in
Las Vegas and look west, and with
the right kind of eyes you can
almost see the high water mark --
that place where the wave finally
broke and rolled back.
Thursday March 22, 2007 - 3:51 PM
Come on!!! What needs to be said?!?!?! NOTHING!!!
Thursday March 22, 2007 - 1:17 PM
bomb book
real good look at that nice suitcase
Thursday March 22, 2007 - 10:10 AM
Sooo well written. Reading his words in this book is almost like sex for your eyeballs 
Seriously though, the language is beautiful, and eerily descriptive without being wordy and staid.
For those who have seen the movie and never read the book, read the damn book! It is exponentially better!
Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 9:43 PM
i've read almost all his shit. I highly recommend "The Rum Diary" and "Hell's Angels".
Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 8:30 PM
what movies are better than the books???
hunter s. thompson was brilliant. its too bad that not all of this works have such recognition. hes straight dope Gonzo writing with a drug induced thought processs. never will there be another like him.. RIP hunter!
Damn Swine!!!
Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 7:35 PM
Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 9:48 AM
being as how i have both the book and the movie.
the movie was fuckin amazing and the book is just as good if not alittle better 
Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 9:11 AM
Friday March 02, 2007 - 10:07 PM
Friday March 02, 2007 - 2:23 PM
Friday March 02, 2007 - 8:49 AM
yes the book is good and do any of you even know that hunter s thompson is dead?
Friday March 02, 2007 - 1:00 AM
An amazing novel. Based loosely on his own experiences and origionally written as a mini series for Rolling Stone magazine, Thompson lures the reader in with his illusive, poetic retelling of a Doctor of Journalism and his agent searching for the American Dream in Las Vegas. With acid, ether and masculin trips described with such intensity, Thompson does a great job at capturing the paranoia, euphoria, fear and loathing. The novel has plenty of political spins which add for an enlightening twist.
Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 11:20 AM
I read this book when i was a young 15 ... still love it yes its better than the movie...its descriptions are amazing
Wednesday January 17, 2007 - 5:02 PM
great filled fun.........so vivid. Movie is good too, but they never compare to the books!!!!! A must read.
Wednesday January 17, 2007 - 3:35 PM
I'm not rating this... just because of all the stupidity I have read from other people that posted on here.... but I'm sure if you have a picture of Hunter in your profile and I've seen it... I've commented on the fact that this book is what he is best known for, which makes anyone that knows nothing of his other work... big fucking posers.
^^^^
That would be related too the movie, and not the book... which I find to be quite interesting, and shows the power of Hunter's writing.
Wednesday January 17, 2007 - 3:11 PM
Wednesday January 17, 2007 - 1:27 PM
my favorite book other then pot planet
Wednesday January 17, 2007 - 9:31 AM
I need to find this book. Iv only seen the movie, but I can only imagine what its like.
Wednesday January 17, 2007 - 1:55 AM
An entertaining book to be sure, DEFINITELY a very unique read... hardly the life-shattering experience people have made it out to be, however.
Perhaps I just don't do enough drugs.
Tuesday January 16, 2007 - 7:27 PM
Book was better then the movie. They usually are. I think that the book captured the sort of dark humour of it all alot better then the movie.
Tuesday January 16, 2007 - 4:53 PM
One of Thompson's best, if you enjoyed this I highly recomend the Rum Diaries and Hell's Angels. Well written and a fantastic piece of Literature. A must read for anyone.
Tuesday January 16, 2007 - 3:47 PM
total tripfest. how can u not LOVE IT!
Tuesday January 16, 2007 - 10:23 AM
definately one of my favourite movies!
Sunday January 14, 2007 - 8:18 PM
Hunter S. Thompson was a True Insperation to me best man i ever met in Colorado just being around made me want to remake fear and Loathing in Los Vegas with one of my mexican friends he's my atternie I may not beable to spell for shit but the message is clear to me Gonzo jorunalism forever! Thompson lives on! everyone knows once you start a serious drug collection you stretch the quanity and quality as far as the eye can see!
Friday January 12, 2007 - 9:55 AM
Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 10:37 AM
Love the movie. Love Johnny Depp. 
Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 10:23 AM
the book was by far much better than the movie but the movie was pretty sick anyway
Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 12:06 AM
Loved the book, hate the author
Thursday December 14, 2006 - 12:43 AM
Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 10:41 PM
The most boring movie ever. Evertime I try to watch it I end up falling asleep or getting bored and deciding to K hole myself instead. "Ooooo we're on acid" Shut the fuck up you pansy Johnny Dep shithead
Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 9:57 PM
anyone with good taste in movies would give this a 5 stars. with that said, next...
Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 8:01 PM
I watched it for the first time last week, on acid.
It scared the shit out of me, in a good way.
Thursday December 07, 2006 - 7:14 PM
This is a great book, probably Hunter S Thompsons best one. Many memorable quotes that you will remember long after youve read the book. The movie does not compare. If you enjoy this book, you will no doubt enjoy his book Rum Diaries, which he wrote much earlier in life. Good read!
Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 11:41 PM
amazing book.... had me laughing way more than the movie....i've only read a couple more of hunter s. thompson's work and i've enjoyed every last one of them.... 5 stars for one of the best journalists/authors of our time
Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 10:58 PM
Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 5:21 PM
Sunday November 05, 2006 - 9:31 PM
I love how people, say this movie was awesome when its a book review.
This book is hyped up more than it should be, Not the best work , and its hard to follow, and if someone claims different there pretentious.
Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 4:57 PM
you dumbasses need to read bettah!
BOOK REVIEW.......
good book, a lot more incoherent than the movie.
This one time on some crazy drugs, I was trippin out like bad and I opened the book fear and loathing and the page I turned to was the page after the chapter called
A terrible experience on extremely dangerous drugs.
needless to say, I was intrigued by this pseudo master peice
Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 3:59 PM
never read the book but the movie awesome so ima have to give it a 5 star
Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 3:43 PM
Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 1:00 PM
i have no more to say 
Wednesday November 01, 2006 - 11:07 AM
This book was wicked..and i recommend reading it before you see the movie.
Friday October 27, 2006 - 11:06 AM
i actually wouldn't mind reading this
Friday October 20, 2006 - 11:35 AM
Let me start with Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter S. Thompson was one of the best journalists ever. He started a revolution of his own. The book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is just one of the many amazing Hunter S. Thompson books. Fear and Loathing is a savage journy to find the american dream. Ralph Stedman did some of the most amazing art ever in Fear and Loathing. Ralph Stedman always hated coming to America and meeting with Hunter because he would always end up losing his mind and getting into some kind of crazy trouble with Hunter.
The movie Fear and Loathing was a crazy and wacked out, but brilliant movie. It is still to this day my favorite movie. In 2008 there will acutually be another Hunter S. Thompson book created into a movie, but this time it will be the book "The Rum Diaries". Johnny Depp and Benicio Deltoro (check the spelling) are the stars of the movie again. I'm sure this movie will be just as brilliant as Fear and Loathing.
You should all check out the series of Gonzo letters. The first set is the book called "The Proud Highway" and the second set is called "Fear and Loathing in America". They are fucking crazy letter to random people.
R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson
Friday October 20, 2006 - 10:53 AM
i love how people comment to this like its the movie.
it says book people!!!
Friday October 20, 2006 - 10:45 AM
loved it.
I watched it twice in two days and each time i saw something i missed the first time.
As for reading it, I loved the style.
Friday October 20, 2006 - 10:25 AM
5 stars, don't really need to say much more except that you should read HST's other works(all of them, in fact...)
Friday October 20, 2006 - 9:56 AM
Thursday October 19, 2006 - 10:17 PM
best book ive ever read! seriously.
actually its the best book i have ever read about 5 times.
definitely read the book if you have seen the movie and liked it. there is much more detail outlined in the book, and as you know with crazy drug movies its hard to follow sometimes.
Thursday October 19, 2006 - 1:46 AM
Hunter S. Tompson is awsome. This drug book talks about finding the american dream. If you havn't allready read this book. You MUST. The movie was good but nowhere near as good as the book. And no I am not one of those people who rates books to movies. I just love this story and felt the book was better. Read/Watch it NOW. Go out and rent a copy of the movie right after you finish a copy of the book. You will regret not taking my advice!
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