Simply put… a great read! Could not put this book down!! I had a lot of fun reading it and I am now looking for more books regarding this topic! Wish it was a bigger book! I think I’m gonna read it again!
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March 24th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
I give this movie 5 stars. Becuase, I felt it had a lot of romance to it. Also, it was more realistic than your typical romance love story. Nicolas Cage plays an alcoholic living in Las Vegas. Whom meets a pretty prostitute they fall in love for a short period of time. They realize they have faults, but they don’t judge one another. They help one another when one is down on their luck. The ending is sad. However, no other movie is like this very different.
March 25th, 2011 at 10:58 am
This movie is terrible. Its only redeeming quality is the committed (and Oscar-winning) performance of Nicolas Cage. The fact that Elisabeth Shue was nominated for an Oscar for her performance is a crime. She’s awful. She has two facial expressions. She isn’t even able to muster up one tear. It’s a horrible, horrible, horrible performance.
The movie has no plot. Everything about it is gratuitous. The cinema verite feel that writer/director Mike Figgis went for is a joke; the movie isn’t even vaguely realistic. There’s almost zero backstory, and the characters are completely one-dimensional. It’s impossible to relate to these characters. In what universe does this film take place?
The screenplay is chock-full of cheesy lines. Avoid at all costs. Two stars for Cage; zero for everyone else.
March 25th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
A love story of a different – and rather disturbing – kind. Tormented alcoholic Ben (Nicholas Cage) leaves his home and family to drink himself to death in Las Vegas. Soon after arriving he meets up with a battered prostitute (Elizabeth Shue) and quickly strikes up a friendship with her. The movie chronicles their relationship to the tragic end you know is coming, yet it never feels predictable. Yes, it’s a depressing film, but you get caught up in the extremely compelling downward spiral, and the acting is top notch. Certainly not family entertainment. I wouldn’t let any kid under 20 watch it, especially the uncut version, which I happened on for the first time on the IFC channel the other day. Powerful stuff though.
March 26th, 2011 at 10:39 am
i love watching cage perform,but why he took the role in this film i’ll never understand.this is an all around depressing-what the hell movie.hated it!glad i didnt buy it,but truthfully….found it on the sidewalk.guess someone else found it useless as well…….crappola plus,thats why it got one star.
March 26th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
The author(s) of this book did an excellent job of adding flavor to the details of visiting Las Vegas. The humor, honest commentary and useful tips added greatly to my planning of my 15th trip to Las Vegas.
You get hotel reviews, show details, shopping tips and general fun knowledge sprinkled liberally with tidbits of Las Vegas history and reference points on new vs. old Strip locations.
Buy this one – it was fun!
March 27th, 2011 at 10:06 am
Went to Vegas in December 2009 and used this book. It worked fine and we liked it a lot…only thing I would like a better would be a bigger pull out map.
March 27th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
I bought this book to accompany me on a recent trip to Las Vegas. The book is an interesting read and contains loads of useful information. There are no pictures but the style of the book makes it easy to read and very informative. I particularly went for this guide book as it was very up to date which is often important.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:09 am
I purchased this along with Fodor’s Las Vegas 2010 and Frommer’s Las Vegas 2010. This book has the most pages. They break down everything in terms of a rating, price, etc. for shows they tell you the slowest time of the week for the show, the length of the show, as well as a description. It breaks down the top restaurants and buffets.
This book has information regarding shows, hotels, restaurants, nightlife. There are little tips here and there but none i found that i didn’t already really know.
What I don’t like is that there are no pictures–and there are very few visual breaks for me so sometimes the pages can be a bit overwhelming. I loved the Fodor’s book the best for layout and pictures as well as side trip information.
The difficulty in rating is that there are some things I like about Fodor’s better and it gives better information and some things I like about this one better–this one has more information about buffets–which kind of excite me. I’m wondering if the only thing i will be doing is eating!
After looking at Fodors and this book over and over, it really has become more of a tie for me between the two. Frommers on the other hand is clearly not on par with either of these books and provides the least amount of information on everything.
If you are only looking to be in Las Vegas, then this is probably the best book. If however, you are like me and also wanting to do day trips or side trips, I would also purchase Fodor’s Guide to Las Vegas 2010 as it has a lot more information about those. (63 pages on side trips–as opposed to 6 pages in this book).
I hope this help you make a decision on which book is best.
I learned from this book about the “M” casino that has an excellent buffet for fairly inexpensive. it is a little south of the strip so a lot of people don’t know about. so far, it is our favorite buffet. although we will be going to Wynn soon because they are suppose to have an excellent buffet also.
I highly recommend buying and reading at least 1 of these guides–this or fodor’s as there is so much information that you may not find out if you just come.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Could not put this book down. And I’ve read it at least three times now.
March 29th, 2011 at 10:24 am
I found a lot of the movie to be rather boring and slow. The book has a good pace to it and some of Thompson’s observations, while on the assortment drugs taken through out the book, are laugh out loud funny. If you have seen the movie, you’ll know a lot of the book line for line. Not much varies; at least for the first half.
It’s a fun read. I enjoyed it enough to research a few of the drugs Thomson’s character and is attorney take, and found out, some of it is down right fiction. Either way, it is an enjoyable read for a mature person.
March 29th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
I put Hunter S. Thompson on my reading list this month, since I haven’t read anything book-length by him before. Sadly, I found Fear and Loathing to be mostly pointless. Undoubtedly, Thompson is a gifted writer; in the hands of a lesser talent, Fear and Loathing would be ridiculous rather than merely pointless.
The plot, such as it is, has been noted in other reviews so I won’t attempt to recount it here. Fear and Loating reads like a poor man’s Tom Wolfe. Thompson and his lawyer run around Vegas getting outrageously stoned and doing crazy things. Near the end, there’s a fairly laughable attempt to make serious sense of the 60’s drug scene, with some sort of quasi-justification of Hell’s Angels founder Sonny Barger.
Is Fear and Loathing really bad? Not really. There’s just not much of a point. It’s another hopelessly dated, overhyped drug era entry praised by the same critics who still think Pynchon’s relevant.
March 30th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Rarely have I seen a book with so many glowing reviews, so most will disagree with me but here goes. Having read it today, it is mostly a drawn-out description of being high (to the point of near-death), and all the carnage that ensues. I wasn’t really offended, but I didn’t find it terribly funny or insightful either. I am giving it three stars for being ‘colorful.’
What disappointed me was the unfulfilled promise of insight into the American Dream. I am open to questioning it, if I could be convinced that such a thing exists. (The quest for material comfort and meaning isn’t it; that’s almost universal). But I didn’t find much insight into anybody but the two main characters, with whom I didn’t identify. Nor do I identify with the straight-laced 50’s culture they despised. Granted, Las Vegas seems a soulless place, even today, but didn’t we know that already? I’m sure the indictments of Nixon and the Vietnam War were much more prescient in 1971. I do care about those things, but I’ve heard it all before.
I just don’t identify with the characters enough (on either side) to feel either vindicated or indicted. Is it because I’m in Gen-X, and never shared the hope and excitement of 60’s counter-culture?
March 30th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
I read the other reviews and it’s true that the author sometimes springs to and fro between timelines and characters. There are so many characters that I liked the way he wanted to remind us of who they were and their associations. I found this book entertaining with every chapter. I’m looking forward to the author’s follow up book about the tales from the Las Vegas Showgirls!
March 31st, 2011 at 10:01 am
Good Book, not great. If you have been to Vegas and know some of the history, it is a fun read.
If you are interested in Mafia history, it is a good read.
March 31st, 2011 at 10:08 pm
I was disappointed by this superficial account of the evolution of Las Vegas during its control by organized crime individuals.
I am a former federal prosecutor who investigated the mob in Las Vegas in the early 1960s. A decade later, I participated in the defense of an organized crime case involving Las Vegas.