Sunday, June 20, 2010
Fear and Loathing
Fear and loathing In Las Vegas is a very confusing yet enjoyable book. There are so many time that the reader is unsure of what is real and what is not that you become lost in the story. I found the book overall to be an enjoyable read. Thompson was doing so many drugs during the course of the book that he too didn’t know what was real or what was unreal. Of course as the reader we are left to wonder how much of the story actually took place and how much of it was completely drug induced fiction. I find it very hard to believe that he actually drove across the runway at the Las Vegas airport. But that is what makes the book so appealing is that maybe with all of the drugs he had done he could have done just that. If Thompson did half the things he said he did you should have been put in jail for a long time. How can a man who has admitted to doing so many criminal acts become a revered person. He put so many people into danger and caused so much damage and yet he is somehow revered for it. The man was a criminal who could have killed people in his drug induced experiences. He as well as everyone around him is fortunate that he did not. By glorifying what he did it tells others that hey Thompson could do all of this and become famous for it why not me.
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I agree with how this novel was quite confusing! It was very hard for me to get into it and find it enjoyable, but I am glad that you were able to do so! I also thought that there were some parts of the story that were very hard to believe. Like you said, it is hard for me to imagine them driving across the runway at the Las Vegas airport. But hey, I guess it is possible!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was a very confusing story and hard to read. I agree that its hard to beleive that he drove accross the runway. He probably was so drugged up that it didn't seem like a big deal. I guess that if everything would have been more ordinary it wouldn't have made a good book, so maybe he just exaggerated a little.
ReplyDeleteDo you really think he glorifies his drug use and the criminal acts he perpetrates? It doesn't seem glorified at all to me. It seems presented in all its actual ugliness. Thompson is revered not for his drug abuse and criminal acts but for his commentary on the state of the nation, a body politic made up of grotesque beasts who appear in his eyes as he appears in others. F&L is less political than hisother works, but it still contains the same disgust with the state of the nation. Capitalism, consumerism, and the general commercialization of of teh U.S. makes him sick, and he sets out to destroy its capital and most glorified symbol: Las Vegas.
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