“Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs” (1966). And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?”Ģ. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded maybe you should drive.” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. The book begins, “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. The book introduced Thompson’s drug-addled, hallucinatory yet generally cogent writing style to a wide audience and was the first place he described it as Gonzo.
First published as a two-part series in Rolling Stone, the book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was ostensibly about a trip taken by a journalist and his attorney to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race and a narcotics officers’ convention but ended up being mostly about their wild ride.
“ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1972).
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