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    <body><![CDATA[Hunter S. Thompson’s first book, Hell’s Angels is not nearly as “gonzo” or as good as his later writings and not nearly as fresh and fascinating as, say, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Hell’s Angels is a far more straightforward piece of journalism than HST’s later work but it is still an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20089260">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd just read Jay Dobyn's extremely exciting and fully-involved No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels. Dobyn was an undercover cop whose total immersion in Angels' culture led to him substituting his real life for what was really a job.  Because it was so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50646352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Both Hunter S. Thompson and the Hell's Angels bring preconceived notions to mind:<br/>Thompson was a crazy sonofabitch. He was a nutbag druggie who liked to blow things up.<br/>The Hell's Angel's are crazy motherfuckers. Remember Altamont? They killed like 500 people while providing concert security...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44731731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this for perhaps the fifth time. From this book up to about 1978 Hunter was at his peak and every book he wrote in that period is writing of the highest order. The guy was a major American prose stylist. Those of you who may scoff at this assertion will one day realize that I'm right. Hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38921131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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 bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28479141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a complete page-turner, and not nearly as brilliant as 'fear and loathing', this is none the less well worth reading, full of captivating hipster-language, and weird insights into the subculture of the Hells Angels. <br/>Hunter S. Thompson is a brilliant investigative journalist both able to gi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73632079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Is there anything more delicious than when the infamous writes about the infamous. I'm hardly one of those whacked-out Hunter S. Thompson-ophiles, but &quot;Hell's Angels,&quot; his nonfiction-ish account of spending the mid-1960s with the motorcycle club as it revved its way into mainstream media i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66474006">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At the time of publication the Hells Angels were a home grown menace that was both real and imagined (and they owe not a little of that infamy to the media as HST aptly points out). They have since evolved from their simple nomad rabble rouser days to being mischievous enough to earn the ire of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61873470">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My girlfriend had just finished this book, and I had run out of Terry Pratchett (for the moment), so I picked it up. It's good.c Hunter S. Thompson goes well out of his way to rock out with a pack of 60s and 70 Hell's Angels, way out there in Cali. He does a great job of confronting and dispelling a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61302408">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really interesting book about the early history of the Hells Angels MC. I was more interested in Hunter S Thompsons writing style though, I wanted to see what his early stuff was like. It was fairly entertaining, pretty balanced and keenly observant. He did not speak a great deal about hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52119593">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My new SF Public Library card was largely put to use last year boning-up on local history of the late 1960s.  I'm a big fan of music from that time, but claim no real knowledge of that time.  I'm interested since my parents grew up through that decade which came just before my life.<br/><br/>Hunter ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51695011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book - Thompson follows the group for a few years and writes about what this group of guys is like.  By the end of the book (even though he wrote about some pretty heinous things that they did to people, property, etc.), I felt myself really liking the men who were in Hell's Angels.  Not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41619138">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book at the end of my adolescent HST-phase. By the time I read it, I had begun to realize that Thompson was a cynical and dangerous bastard whose contribution to the good of society had come and gone in the form of Gonzo-journalism on the Campaign Trail in 1972. I recall purchasing a cop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46852900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first time reading a book of Thompson's, and I really enjoyed it!  It wasn't really an all-encompassing story of the Angels, but descriptions of a few events that happened while Thompson was hanging out with them, interspersed with back story on the members, mainstream press coverage, et...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48068493">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.&quot;  Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels.   In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and 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 first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, &quot;For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work.&quot; As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tore through this book like I was being timed. It wasn't anywhere near the best thing I've ever read - in life or by HST - but it was immensely readable and an incredibly interesting sociocultural snapshot of the Hell's Angels. I've been itching to read this for awhile and finally broke down and b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50874231">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.&quot;  Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels.   In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and 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 first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, &quot;For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work.&quot; As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't have a man-crush on Hunter S. Thompson like Hunter S. Thompson had on himself, but I liked the book. Between reading about the Hell's Angels and eating dinner at Bubba's in Cape Coral, Florida (where I shared a bowl of peanuts at the bar with a waxy-skinned, yellow-and-bloodshot-eyed guy nam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50608753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.&quot;  Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels.   In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and 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 first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, &quot;For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work.&quot; As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really should like Hunter Thompson more than I do, I mean he did ride a BSA and he is from my hometown of Louisville, Ky but to be honest he's always seemed kind of faggy to me with that gay filtered cigarette thing hanging from his mouth, plus there's that whole bizarre chapter he dedicated to fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39877008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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