Hell's Angels
A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson is the writer you want to read if you want to pull all those cool guys. They all love him, it seems, so just make a trip to some hipster café, open one if his books and wait to score. I didn’t go for the obvious “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” but instead I read his debut, a non-f......more

I felt this was just too long. I don't want to read a 300 page magazine article that doesn't have a cohesive story.......more

"By the middle of summer 1965 I had become so involved in the outlaw scene that I was no longer sure whether I was doing research on the Hell's Angels or being slowly absorbed by them.", pg. 46 This strange and terrible saga tells the tale of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Thompson was able to ri......more

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 interesting......more

The Hells Angels were founded in California in the late 1940s and rose to infamy in the mid-1960s following several high-profile events of alleged mass violence and sexual assault. National media coverage terrified both the public and authorities. However, they were also a morbid spectacle. These un......more