Hunter S. Thompson
273 Pages
The Ballantine Publishing Company
1994
In this book the Hell's Angels roam from place to place all over the California landscape. The two most significant places would seem to be San Francisco and Oakland, where the two largest Hell's Angels groups were in the 1960's. The settings are important to the story in the fact that that's where the largest Hell's Angels populations are. But the events could have happened just about anywhere in California.
There is not one main character in this book, there are several. The two main ones would have to be Tiny and Thompson himself. Tiny's name suits him well, standing 5'4 and a stringy man. But don't be fooled, he will kill you. The …show more content…
The people who were involved were 13 Hell's Angels and 4 teenage girls. The end result of this conflict is that the girls finally cracked and said they had made up the whole accusation, they themselves wanted to have sex with the Hell's Angels. The Angel's were set free.
Hunter S. Thompson has tried to tell his readers that the Hell's Angels are a crazy people and be careful around them, he found out after this book had been released to the public. 5 Hell's Angels saw Thompson in a bar and didn't like what he had written about so they decided to beat the crap out of, lucky for Thompson Tiny was there and saved him, Thompson said "If there's one guy you want to see on your side its Tiny." Thompson was trying to imply that being in the Hell's Angels is not all fun and games, though he did not advise you to not become one. I got this idea from the story by reading it.
The major events that happened in this story were the rape at Bass Lake, the riot in Los Angeles, and the Hell's Angels party at writer Ken Kesey's house. Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Nation. This all happened between 1964 and 1966. It all happened to the Hell's Angels and Hunter S.