Mike's review
Hell's Angels
by Hunter S. Thompson
Mike's review
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Mike's review
rating:
Hunter S. Thomson's study of the infamous Hell's Angels. His observations are direct and concise, and his deft writing a mastery of form.
On the merits this and his work from the same period, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one begins to wonder about his slow, prolific decline. Drugs can have a curious effect: they tend to produce a double, much in the same way digital CGI effects are a double of the lens/film/light mechanism that was the earlier foundation of movies. Not many of us can dismiss drugs or CGI as irrelevant to how we see things, but if one spends too long in the double's synthetic glow observations become detached from any shared source; instead, they become the source, and remove us from the cruel bounty of life, death, and the objects between.
From what I understand of it, HST's death was involved two projectiles: the first, which obliterated his brain and left his corpse to become the second, to be later launched via cannon at the sky. However explosive th...more
On the merits this and his work from the same period, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one begins to wonder about his slow, prolific decline. Drugs can have a curious effect: they tend to produce a double, much in the same way digital CGI effects are a double of the lens/film/light mechanism that was the earlier foundation of movies. Not many of us can dismiss drugs or CGI as irrelevant to how we see things, but if one spends too long in the double's synthetic glow observations become detached from any shared source; instead, they become the source, and remove us from the cruel bounty of life, death, and the objects between.
From what I understand of it, HST's death was involved two projectiles: the first, which obliterated his brain and left his corpse to become the second, to be later launched via cannon at the sky. However explosive th...more
