Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...
miss-kitty
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Hi, I'm supposed to read this for book club tomorrow, I have been struggling with it all month, I just don't 'get it'
I have just officially given up after part one, I cannot continue, I don't think I have absorbed any of what I have read either!
This is so unlike me, I have never ever not finished a book! I usually fly through books in a matter of hours and yet this has taken me weeks just to get through part one.
I only stuck with it for so long as reviews rave about it, I seem to be the only one who does not like it!
Was the author himself on drugs as he wrote this?
I have just officially given up after part one, I cannot continue, I don't think I have absorbed any of what I have read either!
This is so unlike me, I have never ever not finished a book! I usually fly through books in a matter of hours and yet this has taken me weeks just to get through part one.
I only stuck with it for so long as reviews rave about it, I seem to be the only one who does not like it!
Was the author himself on drugs as he wrote this?
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is the Pope a Catholic?
i was tremendously impressed with this, but if i read it now i'd probably find it annoying
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
(that's him saying that, not me, by the way)
I recommend the film too, fantastic. You can cheat and watch the film instead.
Yes, yes he was.
Our POV has changed, that's all - it's not the late 1960s any more
It's actually no wonder that few people manage to "get into" Hunter Thompson as a journalist/writer. He had a very weird way of doing journalism...
He'd be given an assignment - cover the 197X Presidential campaign, or in this case the Mint 400 desert motorcycle race...what we'd call an enduro nowadays...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_400 ...then get as thoroughly off his face on thre assignment and write about HIS experiences; sometimes, some small part of the actual subject matter managed to break through the mayhem and chaos and make it onto the page!
But...then again...he WAS writing for Rolling Stone, not any of the broadsheets!
Here, though - there's a subplot - the "attorney", Hector...is actually the protagonist from another Hunter Thompson "assignment"...a Hispanic Rights agitator who Thompson decided to get out of town for a while before someone killed him!
I find it very confusing..
So, it's based on Hunter S.Thompsons, own experiences? I didn't even take that much of it in
I have never struggled with a book so much!
Of course it's all over the place - not only was he very, very stoned when it happened...that's what he did - went to an event, got loaded, wrote about what happened even if it was inside his own head...it's what he can remember about what happened
This was a guy who IIRC managed to get himself SO loaded he got thrown off Air Force One during a Presidential election campaign
I guess I won't be reading any of his other work then.
Very split panel at book club for once 3/5 hated it.
2 of us did not even finish it, which is a first for us.
Ah well, It's all about new things, reading (or at least trying to read) books we've either had no interest in, or not gotten around to reading before.
http://www.naderlibrary.com/huntert.fearloath12.htm
I loved this book