joseph wrote: >Hunter S. Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS was a favorite of mine >long before it was made into a movie (I liked the book so much and Johnny >Depp and Benicio del Toro that I chose to believe the film was also good). >I was born in 1968 and I only got to read the books during that decade when >I was well in my thirties. But was this book published during the 60s? It >certainly felt as though it belonged to the radical 60s.
FEAR AND LOATHING was originally serialized in Rolling Stone back when RS was on the west coast, was a newspaper, and actually cared about the counterculture. (RS used to offer a roach clip as its premium for subscribing.) It was published as a two part serial (as by Raoul Duke) in November 1971. I think it caught the sense of the 1960s as it spun out of control into the 1970s. The summer of love died at Altamont, and having longhair became dangerous (again) in L.A. after Charlie Manson. It was the Beginning of the End. Not that we couldn't laugh about it while the palace was burning. Gil
