Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

To appropriate my school blog, I have decided to revert back to the always faithful book reviews. My latest read is Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Granted, I did see the movie before I read the book but I find them both equally entertaining. In the story, two men are headed to Las Vegas with a wide assortment of drugs that they plan to take during their journaling of the Mint 400 dirt bike race out in the Nevada Desert. During their journey, the two men are constantly high on very powerful drugs such as acid, mescaline, rum and tequila, and the most powerful of all according to the narrator, ether. And I quote from the story "But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.." The readers come to find out that this happens to be true. The men both inhale ether one night before hitting a night on the great city of Vegas and lose complete control of all motor functions, responsibility, and sensibility. The worst part is that they are watching themselves crumble apart, but there is nothing they can do about. Throughout the story the men are constantly losing control of their situations at hand because they are always under the influence of some type of chemical. But because this story is about the American Dream, the drugs win and the men end up not having to go to jail or getting shot because of their recklessness. I really enjoyed reading the book after I saw the movie because number one: Johnny Depp is the perfect man for playing the main character and Toby Macguire makes a random hitchhiker appearance which amuses anyone. I mean who really saw spiderman getting picked up in the middle of the desert by two acid freaks? Secondly, because this portrayed an excellent image of life in the early 70's, outrageous in all the wrong ways,