Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Essay 2 Genre In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the genres that prevail through out the novel include a combination of fictional framework written around an originally intended story told via traditional and untraditional journalism Hunter S Thompson wrote the novel as an in depth view of what the generation after the sixties the exploratory drug era had turned into using a luminously crafted writing style Tradit