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* Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Alternates
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (top 5 but it's non-fiction)
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
... ... Solzhenitsyn
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
The Book of Secrets, M G Vassanji
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Colour Purple, Alice Walker
Cloudstreet ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would have to be my all-time fave drug novel. But not much sex. ... have also said that coming from a place where drugs were "used" to try to achieve perfection, Thompson's drug binges in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas perplexed me. His adventures were fun to read about, but it was not something I could identify with. ... run across them. Now they try to stick biographies and memoirs with the section most relevant to the subjects life. So Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is in 070 journalism and so on.
I think the Dewey system is essentially assigned by individual libraries that mostly agree, but not ... ... when I was in college. Ugh. I had to bruteforce through some journalism/religion hybrid section just to find a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
I never went there again. I Amazoned everything from there on out until I graduated. Hunter S. Thompson author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I have nostalgia for things I experienced 3 months ago, ah bliss, reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with my mother being completely unaware of its contents until we saw the movie on cable two weeks ago, and she was horrified.
I honestly don't think I'm old enough to even have nostalgia, ... #48 Welcome Fallella! I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas earlier this year and loved the insanity! ... a favorite song of mine, but I can't hear Radar Love and not immediately think of road trips that had more in common with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas than Animal House.
TPBM has a song s/he loves so much they won’t listen to it very often. Sounds like Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? ... All you people want is more MORE more MORE MORE! You just want another Fight Club out of him! Leave him alone!
3: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Because cocaine's a hell of a drug.
2: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Even though that Ignatius ... ... to hate the film! The exceptions are Hotel New Hampshire - the film was just as wonderfully bizarre as the book - and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I didn't think that book could be filmed, but it was exactly right (IMHO). ... into Gleebooks to meet up with me and my mum, and he was going "GOOD GRIEF!". What makes it worse was that my mum picked up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for me to read, since I didn't have it yet. You know, the book where Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego goes to Vegas on a drug tripping haze and ... ... Hundred Years of Solitude
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Bluest Eye
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Bell Jar
The Crying of Lot 49
Wide Sargasso Sea
In Cold Blood
The Magus
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Kill ... ... Michael Crichton’s thriller about nanoparticles, is set in the Nevada desert, and then there’s Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's still in my wishlist, but I think parts of The Stand by Stephen King also take place in Las Vegas. Funny authors?
David Sedaris comes to mind, as does a guy named Mark Leyner. Hunter S. Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS remains one of the funniest books ever. A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole. COCKSURE and BARNEY'S VERSION by Mordecai Richler. BEWARE OF GOD ... This discussion is reminding me of the amazing bit in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas about looking West and almost seeing the high-water mark. ... back and add it!
In the order I read them:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Girl with a Pearl Earring
I just got home from an exciting and unique trip to Las Vegas in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and now I'm on my way to the Netherlands in Girl With a Pearl Earring. I just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It made me laugh out loud many times throughout the book! ... morning and am loving it already.
Tomorrow night I'm leaving for a 3 day conference in Las Vegas, so I'm going to take Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to read while I'm there. ... reading: not sufficiently snobbish. We can't have it both ways. When I see The Old Man and the Sea or Rabbit, Run or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I wonder how many trees could have been saved by not printing them. My taste just doesn't roll that way.
Sullenberger's book will ... ... oldstone
069 Museum science Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder - Lawrence Weschler
070 News media, journalism & publishing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
098 Prohibited works, forgeries & hoaxes Reforging Shakespeare : the Story of a Theatrical Scandal - Jeffrey Kahan
... at the perfect time for me. Sometimes books just feel like they have been sent to you like that.
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in LAS VEGAS -- It's a bit of a fudge because I didn't actually finish it. Brilliantly written, but predictable -- LOL!
Oh, dear. I am never going to ... And can someone explain why Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is in a series of one called Gonzo? Are there actually more and it isn't finished yet? I could wait a few days and see if there are any changes. ... last time time you where sitting at the blackjack table and the guy next to you missed the count, because he was reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Next time someone you does something to tick you off just tell them "Hey, you need to get the average up! Go Read!"
(OK Fear and Loath ... ... for future grandchildren or grand-nieces and nephews.
I also still have my beat-up college copy of Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las vegas. Loved Thompson not just for being an iconoclast, but for being such a great writer.
Later in grad school I did a paper on Thompson's and ... ... Guy Gavriel Kay
3. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
4. Farewell, My lovely by Raymond Chandler
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
6. Sandman By Neil Gaiman (if I have to choose one..I guess Worlds End)
7. Shriek: An Afterword By Jeff VanderMeer ... Having finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I'm delving into Stephen Fry's Paperweight while I decide which novel to read next. I also think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a great title. It's still in my tbr pile. Finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. An easy to read fictional account of a drug fuelled 'trip' to Vegas to supposedly cover a sporting event and subsequently a Police convention on drugs. All this and more set to a search for the American Dream makes this a dark comedy not to be missed. Finished Fear and loathing in Las Vegas yesterday. The version I read had some extra bits at the end: a brief bio of Thompson, the writing of the book, the making of the movie, and a few other bits. I read them after the book (I hate reading introductions and so on first, because they usually ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
own it and want to read it but haven't yet I felt like something a bit different yesterday, so I started Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Yep, it's different! ... I might enjoy.
3.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *
3.2 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson *
3.3 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami *
3.4 Re ... The notions of books posing health hazards reminds of that bit from H.S. Thompson's intro to A Generation of Swine:
"What do you say about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring rain on any summer afternoon can ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
... said about Bush Jr. and Iraq.
I do, however, have to admit that I have had my fill of him, I don't know that I will read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but I don't know that I'd rule it out entirely. As I said, this has been a fascinating read. ... something like Fight Club for starters.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and the Post Office series of novels by Charles Bukowski are all classics.
... intact, which is always great.
Three Cups of Tea- $4
I Feel Bad About My Neck- Nora Ephron The hardcover for $1
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson- I can't believe I didn't own this
Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge- Th ... "After West Point and the Priesthood, LSD must have seemed entirely logical to him..." -- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas! ... when Clive James is writing about British F1 drivers, it's pretty rad. Hunter Thompson is also a genius sportswriter. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas began as a story about him covering a motorbike race. And I'm sure there are some quality romance writers, unfortunately the market is so ... ... school ... during the late Jurassic Period ;) I thought it was pretty good. (Note: I was in high school!) Then I found Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in college, along with Norman Brown, Camille Paglia, and Ulysses
In retrospect: Rand is complete shit. But one has to read shit ... What shame HST never wrote anything else as good as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In later years, he turned into a parody of himself.
A Clockwork Orange is not Burgess' best. That'd be Earthly Powers. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is true art. I have to read The Curse of Lono sometime. It's the "fear and loathing" for the marathon set.
Best Spiritual Book would be Earthly Powers, especially its rather witty take-down of a Jim Jones-ish cult.
Best erotica:
Story of the Eye by B ... ... home and it always made me want to read the original account.
Fishing book: RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT.
Road book: FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.
KARAMAZOV might be a good "Best Religious/Spiritual Novel" and then I could have another category to enable me to plug Burgess' EARTHLY PO ... Read in 2008:
11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
12. Orlando
13. Siddhartha
14. The Age of Innocence
15. Ethan Frome
16. Hound of Baskervilles
17. The Awakening
18. Turn of the Screw
19. War of the Worlds
20. The Invisible Man
21. Dracula
22. The Island of D ... ... tackled The Right Stuff, I'd love to see more Tom Wolfe, maybe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or The Great Shark Hunt would be fun, too. Since Ralph Steadman's illustrations already exist for much of the above, they wouldn't have to ... He is a big fan of Las Vegas. He has an interesting sense of humor. Does that help?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Why that's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson! ... Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Other random books I enjoyed:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Veronika Decides ... Bumping to F-books.
Still love Franny and Zooey, but I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas not long ago and really enjoyed that as well, so it is a close second.
-- M1001. ... Unlike Alan Moore, i really enjoyed v for vendetta and unlike almost the rest of the world, both patty and i really liked fear and loathing in las vegas by way of Terry Gilliam. Okay then, let's jump to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ... done Phil Dick better)
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (bit of a stretch but it factored into one of my faves, "Reds")
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (utterly faithful adaptation of HST's classic but, in my view, hopelessly miscast)
Others? Ah yes. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a hoot. HST's books after that were less good. I did like The Great Shark Hunt, but wasn't impressed by Generation of Swine or Songs of the Doomed. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by the good Doctor Hunter S. Thompson. 070 News Media, Journalism, Publishing - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
170 Ethics (Moral Philosophy) - A Short Guide to a Happy Life
613 Promotion of Health - Skinny Bitch
790 Recreational and Performing Arts - Bob Dylan: the Essential Interviews
822 English Drama - With Our Go ... ... a movie out of the book and I wanted to be ahead of the game.
While it was enjoyable, and often times reminded me of Fear and Loathing with everything going on in the book, it took me a long time to become interested in the story enough to continue. I originally started it a year ago and ... ... Books Category with the following:
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Through the Looking Glass
War and Peace
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Age of Innocence
The Time Machine
The Mysteries of Udolpho
But I have also read others for different categories:
Alice's Adv ... ... Horrible!
But I guess it's sensible. After all, why should I hold onto Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, or even Fear and Loathing? I grew out of my drug stage years ago. And if I hold onto Garp, Owen Meany, and The Hotel New Hampshire, there's really no particular spark in ... Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald
Primal Fear by William Diehl
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Holy Terror by Terry Eagleton
I Hate Other People's Kids by Adrianne Frost ... You Must Read
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Persuasion
3. Through the Looking Glass
4. War and Peace
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
6. The Age of Innocence
7. The Time Machine
8. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Extra Credit
9. Ethan Frome ... You Must Read
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Persuasion
3. Through the Looking Glass
4. War and Peace
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
6. The Age of Innocence
7. The Time Machine
8. The Mysteries of Udolpho
I'm excited to start seeing some progress and be over the ... Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
Dorothy Hughes Ride the Pink Horse (set in what the protagonist thinks is a "hick town")
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Cannery Row John Steinbeck #20 - See, I'm not alone. (But Fear and Loathing... was Terry Gilliam.)
Mars Attacks! is the Tim Burton I like that isn't so loved by others. I'm not so crazy about Batman and the much praised Big Fish myself.
Netflix is shipping his version of Sweeney Todd to me. I'm really not so ... A Generation of Swine Hunter S. Thompson
Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks
Pincher Martin William Golding
Fledgling Octavia Butler
Mildred Pierce James M. Cain #98, Cliff,
I think you are off on your assumptions about the Fear and Loathing... movie. I haven't read the book myself, so I can't speak to how accurate Benicio was, but Hunter Thompson was the one that wanted Johnny Depp cast to play him. Hunter was also there through filming, so ... I don't know about Fear and Loathing... being a fantasy, but what a great movie, huh? How could you not love the times when Benicio Del Toro would say "As your attorney, I suggest you..." it was always some terrible advice about drugs. I'm at work now, so I can't look up a proper quote. I finally got a few more finished. The past couple of weeks have been busy.
I finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and read 6th Target in about two days.
Thank you for road trips!!
#18: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Why I Chose It: Johnny Depp, it's on the 1001 Books to Read, and I had to try and understand the story better than just watching the film
I've never felt more on drugs than while reading this book. Around every corner I was waiting ... I just finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and I have to say, I'm on the same page. How did he survive that long? That trip alone could easily have done him in. Of course, we wouldn't have the book probably. ... of abstract, artsy descriptions of LSD trips - (and an array of other mind-altering substances), my "f' list includes Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey To The Heart Of The American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson. A cult classic.
The author died of a self-inflicted gunshot ... ... were expensive but i still coudnt resist (despite the snoby cashier), i picked up five NEW paperbacks for about 50€
fear and loathing in las vegas by Hunter S. Thompson,
the cleft by Doris Lessing,
on the road by Jack Kerouac,
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro (wa ... I'm still working through The Green Mile and I've almost finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I also couldn't hold myself back any longer from starting 6th Target. I can't stand being so behind on the Women's Murder Club. He'll release number 8 before I finish these at this rate. Started both Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Green Mile today. Extremely different books but I've been looking forward to reading both of them. ... steroids, and hormones."
Currently Reading:
Through the Looking Glass
War and Peace
Next Up:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... the list when I need a new book.
Just today I read Breakfast at Tiffany's. While at the bookstore, I also picked up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Never Let Me Go, and I'll probably read those in the next few weeks (even though I'm currently in the middle of a non-1001 book, The Ra ... I've read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and also Hunter S. Thompson's Rum Diaries, which I find to be a much better read.
Fear and Loathing is great, but after seeing the movie near on a dozen times I'm either tired of the story or I just think its a better idea than book. While it isn't ... ... from back in "those" days), try Willlard and the Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan for a short and fun read or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson for a book that's pretty much a drug-induced stupor! :-)
If you read any of my suggestions, I'd love to know ... The Prisoner of Sex Norman Mailer (misogyny, or fear of women)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson (fear of what you experience when you ingest many many drugs + alcohol early and often--a.k.a. hallucination)
Bushwacked, by Molly Ivins (Bushophobia? or maybe just Bush-Fatigue)
... My best friend came in from out of town for Easter weekend and brought me the following:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
The Unbearable Lightnes ... ... Woody Allen? check, P.J. O'Rourke? check...here are a few others I found with laugh out loud moments...H.S. Tompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), anything by Molly Ivins, Fannie Flagg (esp. Standing in the Rainbow), the Growing Up Catholic series, and I haven't seen too ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson 3) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
I actually enjoyed the movie more than the book on this one which almost never happens. ... Minot
6. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
7. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
... is, books that I don't have but that I actually want to get my hands on (and read!) some day:
Off the top of my head: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I've never read anything by Hunter S. Thompson, and in fact, I haven't even seen the film. And it seems everyone I know has... :/ I'd like ... I just finished All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland and have moved on to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ... Dracula by Bram Stoker
76. The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
77. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
79. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
80. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
81. War and Peace by ... ... by bronte,
clockwork orange by burgess,
frankenstein by shelley,
one flew over the cuckoos nest by kesey
and fear and loathing in las vegas by thompson
love em! ... Small Things, Of Mice and Men, American Gods and The Catcher in the Rye - 15 to 30 pages at a time. I started with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas today... quite weird (but interesting) to read about drug-induced hallucinations over breakfast :-)
Anyway, just thought I'd give an ... ... World
031 General encyclopedic works -- American: An Underground Education
070 News media, journalism, publishing: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
153 Mental processes & intelligence: Blink or The Mismeasure of Man
200 Religion: The Battle for God
236 Eschatology: The Great Divo ... A Mighty Heart
Fear and Loathing In las Vegas
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Different Seasons (The Body On the Tracks became Stand By me)
Sideways
American Splendor
V For vendetta
300
Ronin
Sin City
Breakfast Of Champions
Catch-22
Too many! ... *sinks deeper and deeper into denial*
Good/Great Movies from Books
* Requiem For A Dream
* Leaving Las Vegas
* Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
* High Fidelity
* About A Boy
* Brokeback Mountain
* Trainspotting
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Wonder Boys
There are ... ... pretty, and silken to the touch, so I'll try not to lose it. It did feel wrong to use it for Tropic of Cancer and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. If mom only knew! All done with Harper Lee, now time for some Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Quite the jump. ... he encountered.
See Into The Heart Of Borneo, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between The Orinoco And The Amazon, and No Mercy: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Congo. I haven't yet read Trawler, but would expect that he commented on the seabirds. Dancing with the Virgins by Stephen Booth
Walking to Canturbury - A Modern Journey Through Chaucer's Medieval England by Jerry Ellis
One O'Clock Jump by Lise McClendon
A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
Mourning into Dancing by Laurel Lee ... I, personally, didn't like it); A Prayer for Owen Meany is hilarious and you'll speed right through it, and the same with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; The Secret History is also quick and easy (but might leave you wanting to smack the characters.) Cat's Eye is excellent, and quick to ... This is also non-fiction, but new French by Heart: An American Family's Adventure in La Belle France by Rebecca S. Ramsey. She was a South Carolina mom and wife of a Michelin exec who gets transferred to France. I looked but I don't see it elsewhere in this thread: From Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream:
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream - Hunter S. Thompson
City - Clifford Simak
Death in Venice - T. Mann
The Road to Stalingrad - J.Erickson
The Road to Berlin - J.Erickson
... expect, given the LDS connection. When I checked their website for the hours and the link, I noticed they have a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on the rare book list! LOL!
... time keeping everything in this book straight. I want to go back to reading Palahniuk's simpler novels. Rating--3
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson - Ha! What a trip (pun intended)! I'd never heard of this author before (who is unfortunately no longer alive ... ... I decided to give another try to this author. The last line was so touching that I had to write it down.
Today I began Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. I'm not sure if I'll finish listening to it or not. It's a CD I Borrowed from the library. I need to get a ... #10 - I KNEW I forgot to include something on my list! Of course, Steadman's illustrations for Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are absolutely essential!
I don't think you win anything, Editrixie, except the knowledge of what the hitchhiker kid and lounge lizards look like. That's ... One of the many books about Las Vegas - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Can't help but throw this one out there. :D ... Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick are good drug-related books, but my favorite will always be Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of ... I was just wondering if everyone prefers Hunter’s journalism to his fiction-esque (or fiction-ish) works like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or the The Rum Diary?
For me, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved is definitely one of my favorites, however, I tend to like his fiction-esque ...
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