" I found myself having to take many breaks from this book as I found it very overwhelming. Thompson definitely does a wonderful job of taking such crazy, unrelatable and drug-induced experiences and pulling the reader into them. This book is a drug in itself as I have never felt so messed up from just reading about another person's drug experience. The madhouse that is the character's journey is excessive throughout the entire novel, and eventually came to be repetitive and overwhleming to the point where I just wanted it to end (a good trip gone bad.) Although drug experience is the main focus of this novel, Fear and Loathing is more about people's desire to bring chaos into their boring, driven lives. The experiences noted in this story are something we all secretly yearn for, yet elevated to a very high degree, and that is why I think it pulls excitement from the reader. "
— Erica, 12/23/2013