Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Rating: 7/10
Last Read: July 2016
Quick Summary: A journalist and his “lawyer” go on a five day drug binge and attempt to cover stories in Las Vegas. Lots of “what the fuck” moments abound – you can’t take your eyes from the page.
Quick read.
The book is 70% descriptions of drug usage and effects of drugs. If drugs aren’t your cup of tea… you should probably just skip over this one.
My Takeaways
Vegas is a very bad place to take hallucinogens.
Don’t mix your drugs.
My Highlights
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.
After a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing
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.
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run … 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.…