Book · 2011 · Literary Collections
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
#122 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail is one of the best books ever on the American political system just like what it's like when people are running for officee.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2025 Listen at 12:14 What they say about it
- Discusses political coverage“on the campaign trail”8


- Mentions drug world and debauchery“book about debauchery and partying and craziness”4


- Reads in high school or college“high school and college student”3


- Calls it a favorite book“one of my favorite books ever”2

The best things said about it
I think about that Hunter S. Thompson speech all the time, for people who haven't read Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, maybe you've seen the movie, you think it's this book about debauchery and partying and craziness.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Nov 2023 I mean those books Hell's Angels and and you know, Fear and Loathing is some of the best writing.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026 I read Fear and Loathing Las Vegas. I don't read a lot, but I read that book probably five times. It's a great book. Such a great book. And when I got out of college, I lived in a town I didn't know anybody. I lived in Long Beach. I didn't know anybody. I just worked at this restaurant and.
The epigraph in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is, he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Nov 2023 One of my favorite books ever about politics is fear and loathing on the campaign yeah I wrote the introduction to that.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2019 Fear and lothing in Las Vegas is still one of my favorite books just a just a [ __ ] mad crazy book.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2011 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson collects the famed gonzo journalist's subversive, drug-fueled reporting and political dispatches for the magazine, capturing the chaotic spirit of American culture and elections in the 1970s. The work receives enthusiastic nods from podcast figures. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan encouraged guest Luke Grimes to dive into Thompson's writing starting with his signature style, and later praised Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail as one of the greatest books ever written about the American political system. Bill Murray echoed similar praise for the political reporting on the podcast. On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday urged readers to look past the popular movie adaptations and party reputations associated with Thompson's writing to appreciate the deeper literary substance. Additionally, Dan Pfeiffer recommended the 1972 campaign book on Pod Save America as a classic chronicle of presidential politics, while various hosts and guests have frequently referenced Thompson's wild campaign trail anecdotes during political discussions.
Every mention
Joe Rogan Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail is one of the best books ever on the American political system just… 22
“Did you ever see the thing that he did about the election when he did Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail? So, he made Ed Musky go crazy. He made him go crazy cuz he was saying that he was using a Brazilian witch doctor”
“He's the guy from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Do you know that? You never heard of that book?”
“Oh, just read just start off with Fear and Loathing. Okay. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a he got a assignment to cover I think it was a motorcycle race. That was the job. So I think it was for Sports Illustrated or something like that. He got a a job to just cover a race and he”
“I don't know if you remember this, but Hunter Thompson during whatever election he covered in Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail.”
“I mean those books Hell's Angels and and you know, Fear and Loathing is some of the best writing.”
“Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail is one of the best books ever on the American political system just like what it's like when people are running for officee”
“I think that was when Hunter S Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail”
“you never heard of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas you never heard of this guy maybe that's crazy”
“Did you ever read uh you know cis and Ebert did you ever read when uh Roger Ebert rather wrote wrote a screenplay no it's very bizarre it's really sexual very strange it's supposed to be terrible of course I've read passages in it it's terrible but I remember going oh okay yeah they're not they're not creative they're creative”
“the Johnny Deb movie about Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that was the movie he play the oh that was a great movie”
“I mean that was you know what what your magazine had covered and what he had covered with fear and loathing on the campaign Trail it was the way young people were feeling about it versus the way it was being represented on television and in newspapers”
“that was one of the first pieces that he did before i believe he did that before he did his big sports illustrated piece which turned out to be fear and loathing in las vegas 1970”
“one of my favorite books ever about politics is fear and loathing on the campaign yeah I wrote the introduction to that”
“yeah I mean he had a bunch of them that were great but that one particularly it's you can sort of redo it”
“have you ever read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas no it's been years God damn it's good it's it's good dude he's got some great passages in it there's some some great moments that he captured on on paper that just make you go [ __ ] he had these the ability to hit these these these rare patches”
“it's possible they're going to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 yep that's the book”
“um uh fear and lothing in Las Vegas where he played him Johnny Depp did an awesome job of uh pull that up”
“like if you ever Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the classic work of my favorite author Hunter Thompson and he uh had that whole thing about they were on their way to barow when the drugs began to take hold I mean it's [ __ ] great”
“ever since I found out he was a big fan of Hunter S Thompson and then when he did Fear and Loathing in Los he was good he was very good”
“um uh they kind of like he has his character Raul Duke from um Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas MH you know he like the the novel is sort of based on very Loosely on him and this uh his friend Oscar and the crazy [ __ ] they did when they were on drugs in Vegas”
“Fear and lothing in Las Vegas is still one of my favorite books just a just a [ __ ] mad crazy book”
“I watched that Gonzo that Hunter S Thompson and back in you know the 1970s when he was writing Fear and Loathing on the campaign”
Ryan Holiday I think about that Hunter S. Thompson speech all the time, for people who haven't read Fear and Loathing La… 6
“You think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book about drugs and alcohol, which it is, but it's the subtitle of that book is about the American dream”
“Hunter S. Thompson is one of the great writers of all time. Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are two books we carry in the painted porch, which I read when I was falling in love with reading as a high school and college student.”
“The epigraph in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is, he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
“I think about that Hunter S. Thompson speech all the time, for people who haven't read Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, maybe you've seen the movie, you think it's this book about debauchery and partying and craziness”
“But I think his reputation would be fundamental, Hunter S. Thompson's reputation, the reputation of that book would be fundamentally different if we said, well, this was actually three trips as you point out in the book.”
“have you read um fear and lothing in Las Vegas”
Dan Pfeiffer the fear and loathing on the campaign trail Hunter s Thompson spoke about the 1972 presidential campaign 1
“the fear and loathing on the campaign trail Hunter s Thompson spoke about the 1972 presidential campaign”
Jordan Peterson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is quite the piece of work and he what he wrote one on the Hell's Angels and… 2
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is quite the piece of work and he what he wrote one on the Hell's Angels and one about the campaign”
“we were talking about hunterz Thompson earlier and famously he wrote a book called uh Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail if I remember correctly”
Josh Clark Fear and Loathing of course and what other one did I read Rum Diaries or maybe it was fear and Loa on the c… 2
“it seems to be based on a misinterpretation of what a dream Chrome does and where you get it based on um Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because Hunter Thompson has basically a throwaway intimation that the adrenochrome that he does and goes on a crazy trip over um can only be gotten from the adrenal gland of a”
“Fear and Loathing of course and what other one did I read Rum Diaries or maybe it was fear and Loa on the campaign Trail”
Lex Fridman and you mentioned fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson 2
“and you mentioned fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson”
“you mentioned reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in high school and having more or a bit more of a literary mind”
Andrew Callaghan Gonzo journalism, if you look at the official definition, was pioneered by Hunter S. Thompson and it includ… 1
“Gonzo journalism, if you look at the official definition, was pioneered by Hunter S. Thompson and it included elements of um reality and fiction and it was always retrospective fiction. So, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is supposed to be half true”
Anthony Bourdain I remember you know running to the store to to get fear and love in Las Vegas ser realized life-changing 1
“I remember you know running to the store to to get fear and love in Las Vegas ser realized life-changing”
Brendan Schaub Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Hunter Thompson's on checking into the hotel and the lizards are [ __ ]… 1
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Hunter Thompson's on checking into the hotel and the lizards are [ __ ] with this blood on the floor.”
Dan Houser - Plus there's the caricature of the drug world of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That's an interesting on… 1
“- Plus there's the caricature of the drug world of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That's an interesting one. - I love the book so much. I was obsessed by it when I was about 17, 18. And I enjoyed the film, but I preferred the book.”
David Perell So if you have Hunter S. Thompson, right? He writes Fear and Loathing. This is like Hunter S. Thompson's ta… 1
“So if you have Hunter S. Thompson, right? He writes Fear and Loathing. This is like Hunter S. Thompson's take on what's going on.”
David Rutherford I mean, I I remember reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was like I was just like, Oh my, this is it. 1
“I mean, I I remember reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was like I was just like, Oh my, this is it.”
Guy Fieri I read Fear and Loathing Las Vegas. I don't read a lot, but I read that book probably five times. It's a gr… 1
“I read Fear and Loathing Las Vegas. I don't read a lot, but I read that book probably five times. It's a great book. Such a great book. And when I got out of college, I lived in a town I didn't know anybody. I lived in Long Beach. I didn't know anybody. I just worked at this restaurant and”
Hamilton Morris Hunter S Thompson wrote about Charles inis in fear and lothing in Las Vegas talking and it's kind of a in a… 1
“Hunter S Thompson wrote about Charles inis in fear and lothing in Las Vegas talking and it's kind of a in a few different sections”
Josh Brolin well did you ever read fear and love on the campaign Trail yeah that's one of the more interesting pieces 1
“well did you ever read fear and love on the campaign Trail yeah that's one of the more interesting pieces”
Ralph Barbosa I was reading that book you got out there. I never The War of Art. No, no, no, no. Um Oh, the Hunter Thomps… 1
“I was reading that book you got out there. I never The War of Art. No, no, no, no. Um Oh, the Hunter Thompson book. Yeah. Hunus Thompson was a dude or that was a chick. You don't know who Hunter Thompson is? Nah, but I kind of have heard of Thompson's work through I read in the like before”
Tim Ferriss i was interested to see fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson on your on your list of suggest… 1
“i was interested to see fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson on your on your list of suggested books”
Timothy Denevi and then a friend had an audiobook of fear and loathing 1
“and then a friend had an audiobook of fear and loathing”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Hunter S. Thompson, the writer. He's the one that they did that Johnny Depp movie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Okay. Okay. It's based on one of his books.”
“If you've ever read the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or watched the movie, it's where Hunter Thompson starts hallucinating.”
“The police turned on left-wing protesters with unspeakable violence and the city burned. The whole ugly event is, among other things, a big part of what inspired Hunter Thompson to write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He was there at the time.”





