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  <title>Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)</title>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[My dad and numerous others]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thompson tries so earnestly to dispel the hyperbole surrounding the rebel motorcycle club but in doing so he creates hyperboles of his own. This was his trademark as a writer — the subtle blending of fact and fiction so that you aren't sure which is which any more.<br/><br/>Hell's Angels was one of his early books and it shows. He repeats himself too much, trying desperately to get his points across. Not much actually <em>happens</em> in the book, which I think is what made it so difficult for me to finish — there is no incentive to pick it back up. I'm not sure I'm a non-fiction kind of gal. I need more suspense and investment in a story.<br/><br/>Not to say this book is bad, by any means. It's just that I've read better work, both by Thompson and others.]]></body>
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