What we’re about
Tired of stuffy library book clubs? Get together at a local restaurant (that's where the 'One Drink Minimum' comes into play, although any menu item would do) to discuss this month's book. Fiction or non-fiction, paperback or hardcover, you'll read a new book every month. Come to laugh, learn, share stories and make new friends!
Upcoming events (1)
See all- 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. ThompsonTBD, Princeton, NJ
* NO SHOW POLICY: No Show once and you're dropped from our group.*
(full title)
'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Available at Mercer County Library:
https://merl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/mcl/search/results?qu=fear+and+loathing+in+las+vegas&te=
Goodreads description:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7745“A scorching, epochal sensation!”—Tom Wolfe, The New York Times
“[A book] in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac.”—The New Republic, 1972
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.”
- description from Penguin Random House. Photo credited to Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc. (on back cover of the 1972 first edition). Source, Wikipedia.
