Much in the same way, the film Easy Rider (dir. It reflects the loss of a utopia and chronicles its spiral into violence and mass cultural sell-out. As I’m now heading, rattling and aching, towards my mid-thirties, the book has stayed with me for over a decade, and on every read I discover a new angle or interpretation that expands its meaning.įear and Loathing holds an almost mythic quality in its mix of Gonzo reportage, drug frenzies and soulful meditation of the Sixties’ generation of America. Thompson’s seminal 1971 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, a book, which give or take a few missed opportunities, I have endeavoured to read once a year since first picking it up at the tender age of 19. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”Īnd so begins the first sentence to Hunter S.
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