![]() Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to me, wasn't his best work. For years, no work of his stood out to me as much as Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 or the Gonzo letters. Like Mark Twain, he chronicled American stupidity in the tongue of his generation, and he captured it perfectly, from the insanity of the drug experience to the depravity of American politics. But he chose to do what he did, and he did it better than any of his generation. He probably could have been a brilliant novelist of any kind. ![]() He probably could have been a very rich super-novelist of popular, uninspired filth. He spoke to a true astonishment at the complete, unrelenting fuckedupedness of America and her politics, and he did it with a bite that was deserved and unmatched. Thompson is dearly missed by many people, and on a personal level, I miss him deeply. I hadn't read this book in years, and previously, it hadn't even been my favorite Hunter S. I recently went to Las Vegas for the first, and probably only, time in my life. ![]()
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