Joshua's review
Hell's Angels
by Hunter S. Thompson
Joshua's review
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Joshua's review
rating:
bookshelves:
america,
journalism,
the60s
When I started reading this book several Hunter Thompson fans told me it wasn't a "real Hunter S. Thompson book", and that it was "just" straight reporting, implying that I shouldn't waste my time. And it was more earnest than some of his other stuff, but still contained plenty of paragraphs like this one:
"For reason that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12-gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44 Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter and crashing glass. For a while I assumed that some freakish wind pocket had absorbed all the noise and carried it out to sea, but after my evicted I learned otherwise."
Not quite David Halberstam. It's a fun book about a strange group of people. Thompson's downplaying of the violence, and particularly the rape, that his subjects seem to take part in on a regular basis is unsettling. But you have to give him a bit of credit t...more
"For reason that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12-gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44 Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter and crashing glass. For a while I assumed that some freakish wind pocket had absorbed all the noise and carried it out to sea, but after my evicted I learned otherwise."
Not quite David Halberstam. It's a fun book about a strange group of people. Thompson's downplaying of the violence, and particularly the rape, that his subjects seem to take part in on a regular basis is unsettling. But you have to give him a bit of credit t...more
