Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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Автор: Hunter S. Thompson

Название: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Издательство: Vintage

Год: 1998

Формат: PDF/EPUB/MOBI, MP3 VBR

Размер: 98 Mb

Язык: Английский

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.

Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.

Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a conventional report on motorcycle racing it would have been interesting to motorcycle enthusiasts for a few days. Since he wrote a gonzo story he had a very wide canvas and he used it well to create a classic.

The reader might be turned off by the obstreperous behavior, extreme self indulgence and offensive inconsiderate language. If you can look past this offensive conduct and you will see that Hunter Thompson gave us an insight into the American character of the 1970's.