What novels best capture modern-day Las Vegas?

Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, 1972. An eccentric journalist and his lawyer travel to the Las Vegas of the psychedelic 60s in this legendary novel/memoir. "Saturday midnight … Memories of this night are extremely hazy. read more

If you want to compare this to 1970s Las Vegas, read Hunter S Thomson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), which is the definitive novel of its era about the city: “Hallucinations are bad enough. read more

But that isn't an issue if you focus on the message the novel wishes to convey and ignore all the religious entities. I can bet that you'll be a new person and will have a new perspective of looking at things when you reach the last page. read more