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I had never read this but know it’s an important cultural source for the late 60s, so finally sat down to read it.
God do I hate it. I’ve slogged my way through 10% of it so far and am finding it essentially unreadable. Am I alone? I was too young for the late 60s counterculture but if I were alive then I believe I would have found it exhausting. (And I’m a very liberal person.)
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 6, 2024 10:56 PM |
I read it in college decades ago. I remember the part where somebody gets yelled at by the Pranksters for reading a book. Because it is selfish or something. Bunch of spaced out lunatics.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 6, 2024 10:04 PM |
I liked it because it was a crucial part of Bay Area history, where I was living at the time. If you don’t really connect to that, then I could see how it would be a slog.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 6, 2024 10:39 PM |
I prefer the book where Hunter Thompson tries to befriend the Hells Angels and buys the wrong bike and gets his ass kicked.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 6, 2024 10:43 PM |
That’s so funny r3. Love HT. I just re-read Fear and Loathing. I enjoyed most of it even more than when I was in my 20s, but the one thing that bothered me was the scary treatment of women by Doctor Gonzo, which I think would be seen as less scuzzy in the 70s than we see it today.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 6, 2024 10:53 PM |
The book was a hard read, even back in the 60s.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 6, 2024 10:56 PM |
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