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Summary: Hell's Angel's is a big yawn.
Review: If you are looking for the same high calibur, rapid gunfire writing as Fear and Loathing, look elsewhere. I read this book first and thought that it was plainly and intelligently written, but not at all interesting, and I'm glad one of my friends made me read Fear and Loathing because I would have never touched it after having read Hell's Angel's.
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Summary: Don't be miss informed
Review: The reviewers that gave this book a negative spin really missed the boat. The book is not a sensatonalized account as "Fear and Loathing", is it is a record, and a great one at that,of Hunter's time spent with these modern outlaws. It is informative, shocking, and very entertaining.
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Summary: He tells it like it was
Review: Hunter Thompson trys to get the facts about the "outlaw's" by being there with a group of them. He was upfront and got beyond the hype put out by "the man" and dealt with bikers as real people. This book speaks of a time before the "R.I.C.O." statutes turned loose "agents-provocateur" to entice individual gang members to break the law. Thompson's accurate descriptions of his time within the biker community are now historical documents speaking of a past 30 years gone. In his time Outlaws were still creating the biker lifestyle, free from the image consciousness of today's bikers. [$20G's&20 miles don't make you a biker!] They ride what they want and do things that make for good storytelling on Thompson's part. I recommend this book as a balance to the disinformation found in most others on the subject, and because it's entertaining reading.
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Summary: Absolute Trash from a Kentucky Fool
Review: Hunter S. Thompson has lived his life as if he wishes to actively alter his legacy. From exagerated experiences which he contrived strictly for the purpose of adding to his legend, to the outright falsification of simple facts, Thompson represents what you get when you cross-breed a toothless Kentucky derelict with a bipolar neurotic. In this particular book, Thompson takes great pleasure in representing that he was present during several Hell's Angels criminal episodes. The simple fact of the matter is that he was never present for so much as a peaceable pow-wow. The Angels do not let sycophants like Thompson in on their innermost secrets. Hell's Angels is fictional ---- just like Ken Kesey's review below pointed out. This is nothing more than a talentless wanabe "breaking through" as a writer by means foul. Avoid this stinker at all costs.
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Summary: One of the best books I have read all year
Review: The book Hell's Angels, by Hunter S. Thompson, is one of the best books I have read all year. The one thing that effected my liking to this book was not the description, it was not the plot, and it was not the excessive sex, drugs and alcohol. It was the fact that Hunter Thompson was living with the actual Hell's Angels for almost two years, for the sake of journalism. Hunter Thompson is by far no saint (as you might know if you read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), but some of the things that were done in the time period that Thompson was living with them were down right sinister. Behind all the rape and the pillaging and the absolute destruction of human beings were the Neanderthals, that would strike fear in the heart of any decent, hard working American. The book goes into great detail about the ways that the press can manipulate a story, and the way that can mislead the reader, and the results of this. The worst thing about this is that a lot of the Angels had things happen to them that they were completely innocent of, but just the mere fact that they were Hell's Angels made them the enemy. In no way am I condoning any of the actions that some of the Angels partook in, but there is a large difference between committing the crime, and being friends with the people that committed the crime. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever wondered what lies on the dark side of society, and to any one with a strong stomach. Thompson is an excellent writer and does go into (sometimes obscenely excessive) detail.
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Summary: BORING BORING BORING
Review: This book should be banned it is more boring than reading a cookbook
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Summary: HELL'S ANGELS IS A BOOK MADE IN HEAVEN
Review: This is a great book. It maybe paints the Angels in an excessively positive light, yet to condemn the book for this is harsh.The whole piece is fascinating, giving a rare insight into a culture we would all probably like to give a bash (for a few hours at least). Hells Angels is the emergence of a genius.
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Summary: Not at all interesting
Review: This book fears to go where it should: straight at the Hell's Angels. The author seems scared of them, and he seems to believe that he'll get hunted down and beaten if he says anything bad about them. Violence is glorified. Scumbags who have such nicknames as Gut and Drive-by are glorified as modern-day heros. They are not heros, and this book is a zero.
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Summary: very intresting book
Review: 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.
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Summary: I like Hunter, but come on!
Review: I cannot believe all of the positive hype about this book. This is the least effective of Hunter Thompson's books. We are treated to the same thing over and over again: bikers tearing through the streets, spreading mayhem everywhere they go. Nothing personal, Hunter, but why'd the heck you write this stinker?
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