Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Largely Pointless

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.