OT "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold..."

[SlyPokerDog]

On March 21st, 1971, Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta arrived in Las Vegas to cover the Mint 400 desert rally for Sports Illustrated. Asked to write a 500-word summary of the race to accompany a photograph, Thompson annoyed his editors when he turned in thousands of words about his escapades in the city of sin, with barely a mention of the race itself. This bizarre piece of writing ultimately became Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one of the most important but misunderstood novels of the 20th century.

https://quillette.com/2021/03/21/fifty-years-of-fear-and-loathing/

 

[Chris Craig]

One of my favorite novels

 

[barfo]

Hard to believe it's been 50 years.

barfo

 

[Stevenson]

He is so overrated imo.