I chose to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for my independent book project. This book starts out with two guys with a rented car and a trunk full of tons of drugs, messed up out of their minds. They are headed to Las Vegas in pursuit of the American Dream. They are going to try to cover the story of the Mint 400, a very popular and famous motorcycle/dune buggy race. But things prove difficult when they have a head full of acid, and can hardly even carry out simple tasks, let alone cover a whole race.
The two run into trouble ranging from, terrible hallucinations, to having to get out of a massive crippling debt. When finally begins, the two of them are too concerned with dealing with the side effects of all the drugs that they just took to actually cover any sort of story. The race is in the desert and there is a terrible, blinding dust that makes it almost impossible to see. The two of them just end up sitting in a bar and wondering what they are going to do to get back on track.
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