Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the title of a fictional book by the gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson written about a 1974 trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race in the desert, but ended up being a social commentary on the end of the 1960's. The trip is loosely based off a trip that Thompson took to Las Vegas with his friend Oscar Zeta Acosta (fictionalized in the book as Doctor Gonzo) to try and get him away from his bodyguards in Los Angeles and learn more about a high profile murder that he was writing about.
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| - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the title of a fictional book by the gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson written about a 1974 trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race in the desert, but ended up being a social commentary on the end of the 1960's. The trip is loosely based off a trip that Thompson took to Las Vegas with his friend Oscar Zeta Acosta (fictionalized in the book as Doctor Gonzo) to try and get him away from his bodyguards in Los Angeles and learn more about a high profile murder that he was writing about.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a pirate BBS, not in Las Vegas but near Birmingham, Alabama. It was raided by the FBI on August 3, 1993 [1].
- sonst ist dazu eigentlich nicht wirklich viel zu sagen... naja man sollte den Film in zwei Lebenslagen anschauen: Nüchtern und Breit
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a legendarily insane book written in 1971 by Hunter S. Thompson, loosely based on two trips to Las Vegas he took "in search of the American Dream". The book was made into a film by Terry Gilliam in 1998 starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. A plot summary cannot cover the radically unique feel of the book. Largely written in a stream of consciousness, the book covers the tail end and self-destruction of the '60s freedom and drug culture and the beginning of the increasing tightness of the 1970s.
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| - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a legendarily insane book written in 1971 by Hunter S. Thompson, loosely based on two trips to Las Vegas he took "in search of the American Dream". The book was made into a film by Terry Gilliam in 1998 starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. It starts at the line above and goes downhill from there. The story involves a mad journalist (Raoul Duke, based on Thompson) and his Samoan attorney (Dr. Gonzo, based on Chicano attorney/activist Oscar Zeta Acosta, with nationality changed to protect the innocent guilty) traveling to Las Vegas to chronicle the Mint 400 desert bike race for Sports Illustrated, consuming many, many illegal drugs in the process; in actuality, both were glad to have an excuse to get out of L.A. because Acosta's radical friends thought that he was spending too much time with Thompson, whom they suspected of being a police agent (not at all an unrealistic suspicion in 1970). When this falls through, in part due to their severe drug saturation, Raoul attempts to return to Los Angeles, but gets called back into Vegas by Rolling Stone for the National District Attorneys Association's Conference on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. He accepts largely out of irony. A plot summary cannot cover the radically unique feel of the book. Largely written in a stream of consciousness, the book covers the tail end and self-destruction of the '60s freedom and drug culture and the beginning of the increasing tightness of the 1970s. Also contains a famous line about Goddamned Bats, though they are not used in the book or film themselves.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the title of a fictional book by the gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson written about a 1974 trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race in the desert, but ended up being a social commentary on the end of the 1960's. The trip is loosely based off a trip that Thompson took to Las Vegas with his friend Oscar Zeta Acosta (fictionalized in the book as Doctor Gonzo) to try and get him away from his bodyguards in Los Angeles and learn more about a high profile murder that he was writing about.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a pirate BBS, not in Las Vegas but near Birmingham, Alabama. It was raided by the FBI on August 3, 1993 [1].
- sonst ist dazu eigentlich nicht wirklich viel zu sagen... naja man sollte den Film in zwei Lebenslagen anschauen: Nüchtern und Breit
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