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: Hunter S. Thompson is an a$$hole.
Summary: 1 Stars
This guy is a self-inflating ballon. No one and nothing is as important in his eyes as he is. His opinion of himself and the world around him is all that really matters. His ability to cunningly insinuate himself into the minds of others dramatically increases the danger he poses. If you have the misfortune to be assigned one of his books in a college class, lament that no one has made "Cliff Notes."Book Review: Hunter S. Thompson is one journalist with guts
Summary: 5 Stars
Thompson's Hell's Angels is a masterpiece of American Journalism...Not only does he teach us about the most known--and maybe the most notorious--outlaw biker gang in the world, he also teaches us what it means to be a journalist. He shows he has guts just by spending so much time with the gang most people feared back in the 60s, and by not being afraid to show he had what so many other writers and reporters lacked. I can only hope journalists in the 90s--including myself--can follow his bright example.Book Review: Hunter S. Thompson masterfully defines the Hells Angels
Summary: 5 Stars
Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson disects the infamous motorcycle gang. He defines them with a gritty first hand portrait that seems to favor the idea that they are not just unsavory animals but they are simple loosers wanting to go out with a bang. Shows them for what they really were and not their hype ridden reputation. Also Thompson offers up a biting contrast between the Angels and his "Respectable" friends. Though it is not the same twisted Gonzo journalism that we saw in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it is well worth the time and money.Book Review: Hunter is God
Summary: 5 Stars
sure, fear and loathing gets all the hype, but this is where the gonzo ethic was born, when being a journalist was actually a risky and enlightening profession, when America was still shocked and scared of bikers. this book (as well as anything else Thompson has written) reminds me of how regulated and anal-retentive 90's American society ironically is when compared with the outlaw status Hell's Angels enjoyed in the 60's. Thompson reveals alot not only about the bikers and social mores, but how law enforcement deals with those outside society's "normal" realm. Go Gonzo Go!Book Review: Hunter the Journalist
Summary: 5 Stars
As a fan of Hunter S Thompson's later works, I found myself to be suitably surprised by Hells Angels. Compared to some of his later Drug and Anger fueled tales such as the Fear and Loathing tales and the Great Shark Hunt, Hell's Angels is Hunter in a more thoughtful journalistic mode.
In a time when the Angels were the terror of middle America and the mainstream press were regularly running tales of pack of thousands of bikers riding the road and entire towns being terrorized, Hunter was willing to do the hard yards to spend the time getting to know his subjects so that he could speak and write with authority. What he found was another pack of "one percenters" those guys who do not fit into society, who will always be the outsiders looking in amazed that we can live the life that we do.
Hunter also provides an interesting example of perception and reality and how one can create the other, which is still highly relevant in our times. When the tales of the Angels first broke in the press, the reports spoke of thousands of Angels operating on the west coast, yet Hunter found the total active Angel population to be about 160. Yet after a year of sensational press coverage their were significant chapters of Angels across America driven largely by the prestige which the press the press endowed them with.