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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson

Paperback | Pages: 295 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 41020 Users | 1448 Reviews

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Original Title:	Hell's Angels
ISBN:	222109073X (ISBN13: 9782221090732)
Edition Language:	French
Characters:	Hunter S. Thompson
Setting:	California(United States)

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"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades & greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners & cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo & East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur...The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels.

In the mid-60s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up & down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was 1st defined, & when such countercultural movements were electrifying & horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy & brutal honesty, & with a nuanced & incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited & sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in '67, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

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Title	:	Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Author	:	Hunter S. Thompson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 295 pages
Published	:	2000 by Robert Laffont (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Writing. Journalism. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Mystery. Crime. Classics

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Ratings: 3.97 From 41020 Users | 1448 Reviews

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Still the best book about bikers ever written - and completely unromanticized, too. Their lifestyle is shown in all its greasy and grimy glory. And Hunter took a bad stomping at the end of the book by some vicious Angels. Written over forty years ago and still rawer than a lot of shit out there!

***SPOILERS ALERT***Hells Angels is an account of the exaggerated myths, the terrible truths, the origins, motivations and the ethos of the motorcycle gang that terrorized American cities and small towns in the 1960s. A substantial portion of the book is dedicated to disproving the myths about the Angels which were created by the paranoid American media. Thompson investigates negative news reports about the Angels and shows how most of them were biased and hollow. But he also harbors no

Almost gave this 5 stars but HST padded the final 100 pages with about 50 unnecessary pages full of statistics, fantasies, and a ridiculous chapter on a riot in a Sierra national park that never occurs .The rest of the book is just about perfect.You can see in this, his first book that Hunter S. Thompson emerged on the publishing scene a true flame breathing dragon of a journalist.Highest Recommendation.

I love Hunter S., and granted, this is his first book, and I love books written about this time, and there's great insight and observations and great writing and all, but I got halfway through this book more than once and (granted again, this was during my A.D.D. phase where I couldn't finish any book, I usually had 4-6 books going at the same time and never finished any of them) didn't reach the end. Well I finally picked it up again and read it from beginning to end, without reading a bunch of

I felt this was just too long. I don't want to read a 300 page magazine article that doesn't have a cohesive story.

LOVED Even though it must be taken with a pinch of salt

"Everyone an outlaw, until it time to do outlaw shit."I picked this up because THE NATION recommended that if I, a pasty suburban leftie liberal, wanted to understand the "forgotten man" Trump voter, I should read this. I find out near the the end, that the goddamn NATION magazine paid the tab on HST's drink account to dictate this into a handheld tape recorder. Shady. But the suggestion is not "that" wrong. As with everything HST wrote, there is a near perfect, poetic epiphany right near the