Fear and Loathing in las Vegas - Hunter.S.Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a terrific book. I read this book to on another trip to New Zealand ( maybe this is a running theme) .Hunter. S . Thompson , one of the most interesting and controversial American writers of the 20 century, know for his dislike of authority, drug use and being the father of Gonzo Jouralism. He committed suicide in 2005 and had his ashes fired out of a cannon .

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was first published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971. It is about two characters Raoul Duke a journalist and his attorney Dr. Gonzo taking a trip to Las Vegas to report on the Mint 400( a motorcycle race in the Nevarda desert) and to find the American Dream. They start off by getting a white convertible they nickname "the White Shark" and a bag full of drugs. These they take throughout the whole book resulting in hilarious descriptions of people morphing into iguanas, a waitress having sex with a polar bear and Gonzo filling the entire car with soap from the hotel.

Duke and Gonzo manage to miss most of the Mint 400 race but get an assignment to write about a police drug conference happening in Las Vegas. This they attend completely on drugs and paranoid. The police being told how to identify a drug user do not detect Duke and Gonzo.

This is so much more than I have written in this post, the only way your going to find out is to read the book. If your not a book reader the movie is very faithful to the book.