John's review
Hell's Angels
by Hunter S. Thompson
John's review
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
John's review
rating:
Hunter made one of the most anthropologically incisive observations of the American condition EVER in this book: The migration of Europeans to the "new world" was the movement of the disenfranchised. Generation after generation, people who were persecuted or otherwise unattached to the land beneath their feet found convenient exit going West. The trip itself, across the ocean to begin, was no picnic, but certainly better than the certain death of staying put. At each stop along the way, beginning with the Eastern Seaboard and inching west through the middle country, the Great Plains, the brutal, brutal Rockie Mountains, high desert plateau, and Sierras (another kabob, Mr. Donner?) the only reason people kept going West was because they we're settling wherever they were. So, West they went. Until they couldn't go West anymore: California, the Pacific Coast. And, furthest West, began to collect generations of people who couldn't hang onto wherever they were. Like a roiling foam...more
