A review by alleerose
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

2.0

I feel like this would have made for a very good longform article, but as a book-length topic it was stretched pretty thin. I mean kind of the point of the book was to show how there was not that much behind the Hells Angels as the media made it seem, so yeah. And maybe this is just me reading into it, but HST didn't even seem that into it, it didn't have the usual vim and vigor his writing does. Maybe it's also a function of the time... the Hells Angels aren't much of a thing anymore, and a lot of the time I found myself wondering why I was even reading it at all (the answer is because it seemed appropriate reading material to accompany my move to Oakland).

This isn't a very coherent review, but oh well. In summation, the book was kinda meh.