Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

Author: Hunter S Thompson Publisher: Random House Published Date: 1966 Genre: "Gonzo" Biography Pages: 284 Amazon Price: £6.39 ***Who is Hunter Thompson*** *The Career* Quite simply, the King of Gonzo. Thompson is considered one of the controversial American greats and the choices of how he lived his personal life are almost as widely-known as his writing. Thompson started his writing career working for numerous newspaper and magazine publications, notably with Playboy and *Rolling Stone Magazine - *with whom he sustained a relatively enduring relationship. From there, Thompson was crowned as ...  Read the complete review

Hunter S Thompson made his name with Hell’s Angels in 1966, the book which marked the beginnings of Gonzo journalism. In some ways he struck it lucky by hitting on the right subject at the right time. The Angels were ripe for a detailed account, following their sudden rise to fame in the US press in 1965. Despite being in existence since the end of the Second World War, the Angels had been relatively obscure until an incident known as The Monterey Rape. The Californian papers picked up on the alleged gang rape of two young women on a Monterey beach by a gang of Angels. The story took off, and soon the New York Herald Tribune, Newsweek and Time were running ...  Read the complete review

Amazing! This book is truly one of the greatest accounts of the infamous Hells Angels, who took America by storm during the 1960's. Hunter S. Thompson's brutal writing style perfectly captures the sights, sounds, and even the smells of the Bikers! He takes us on a journey that will remain in the viewers memory for a long time to come, it is a journey that features raw pain and emotion along with great feelings of achievment. I found it more interesting than a lot of other Thompson work for the reason that this is a REAL story that actually took place, and he does the job of recreating this very well. I would recommend this razor sharp book to anyonr interested in ...  Read the complete review

This was the book that made Thompson and his own brand of Gonzo, this is where his real subjective journalism becomes apparent, submeriging himself in the life of hell's angels chapter and documenting everything, the first few chapters written more in the style of an academic essay really set up how obejective journailsm fails and proves how what he goes on to write, a subjective account in the style of literature, is really alot truer than any objective story you can find in any news paper. If your a journalism student wanting to learn about 'new journalism' then start here, it's not heavy and doesn't involve the grasp of politics needed for his ...  Read the complete review

This book was written before Hunter S Thompson had founded Gonzo Journalism, but his distinct writing style is very evident, the smooth metre and cruel ironic humour. However as opposed to gonzo - which is written in the midst of the moment, and intended to be sent to the printers in that form, with the minimal amount of editing or reworking - this book was written more in retrospect and is heavily structured as a commentating essay. The action jumps around over the year that HST rode with the Angels. I enjoyed ‘Hell's Angels', but this did make it occasionally hard to follow and place in respect to time. Also at one point it becomes quite ...  Read the complete review