Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Book Review: ok/but slow
Summary: 3 Stars
The book had some exiting parts in it ,but he always seemed to not be there for the real deal.Read bargers book for the indepth stuff to bad barger and thompson could not of got together and wrote a book,bargers storys and thompsons writing skills would have been a killer book.RIDE ON BRO'S BradskiBook Review: underestimated
Summary: 5 Stars
The book was very interesting and so intrigueing. Where can I read more about where this book left off? Better yet, what other books are there that relate the early history about the Red and White or the one percenters? I love the 60s especially ideas and trends that were pushed underground and that the status quo desperately tried to ignore or tried to relegate to obscurity. Those trends had real meaning and artistic value. But it is precisely why this book was so fascinating to me. I guess the status quo's intentions backfired in a major way. This book also demonstrates how the outlaw bikers actually set off certain trends like tattoos and piercings which are quite popular among the "artists" and "art" of today...actually quite boring and predictible like today's "music". The attached chains on the wallets, tattoos, and piercings had already been done by a more interesting subculture in the late 50s and early 60s which were totally rejected by most people. This book offered a glimpse into something I really had little knowledge about. Today's youthful culture think that they are doing something original and interesting with tattoos and piercings but they don't even come close to the counterculture of the late 50s and 60s, particularly the outlaw culure.
As for the Hunter S. Thompson's other famous book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,...what a bore. I disagree that it's a better book than this one that I'm reviewing. In fact, it's totally the opposite. Hells Angels left me with more hunger to gobble up more material related to the Red and White and outlaw bikers in particular. I had to almost force myself to read Fear and Loathing. Drugs can sometimes have the opposite effect on creativity, and it seems that drugs and writing were not a good mix for Hunter S. Thompson when he wrote Fear and Loathing.
Book Review: very intresting book
Summary: 5 Stars
Hells angels is the embodiment of all that journalism should be. In todays world of political crrectness it's great to find a documentary that just gives the facts, with a hint of dark humor. It is brutally honest, but not nessicerily judgemental. I would reccomend this book to anyone who wishes to take a step back in time to a simpler America.