- ISBN13: 9780679603313
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The author’s harrowing and critically acclaimed first book chronicles his year riding with the Hell’s Angels and other motorcycle gangs, an “experiment” that ended when he was beaten nearly to death by a group of Angels. 20,000 first printing. NYT. … More >>
Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
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.”
Rating: 1 / 5
Regarding that tagline: “A strange and terrible saga”. For what it’s worth (not much, admittedly, but feel free to congratulate me nevertheless), I just discovered that the phrase “strange and terrible” didn’t originate with Thompson. But rather with one of Thompson’s favorite writers.
From THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “His memories of the Boston Society Contralto were nebulous and musical. She was a lady who sang, sang, sang, in the music room of their house on Washington Square—sometimes with guests scattered all about her, the men with their arms folded, balanced breathlessly on the edges of sofas, the women with their hands in their laps, occasionally making little whispers to the men and always clapping very briskly and uttering cooing cries after each song—and often she sang to Anthony alone, in Italian or French or in a strange and terrible dialect which she imagined to be the speech of the Southern negro.”
Rating: 5 / 5
If you’re expecting an introspective study of a complete infiltrate on the Hell’s Angels day to day, forget about it, this is basicly the report of two big reunions of the Angels in the early 60’s, with some articles of the time. And ONLY till that date, no further. TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTING. Tedious, boring, in fact didn’t finished it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Hell’s Angels is boring, boring, boring unless you enjoy reading lots of statistics. If you’re really curious about how many motorcycles were registered in the U.S. in 1965, this might be the book for you. On occasion there is a paragraph or page that has some meat in it and then it’s back to numbers. After all the hype I’d read about Hunter S. Thompson, I expected to read the 1970’s version of “On the Road.” One thing for sure Thompson is no Kerouac.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book should be banned it is more boring than reading a cookbook
Rating: 1 / 5