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Title: Ridin' High, Livin' Free: Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories by Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Kent Zimmerman, Keith Zimmerman ISBN: 0-06-000602-1 Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a wild ride of a book
Comment: One of the better books I have read in a while. Sonny Barger is a real American legend. I love it when you read a book and there is honesty in the writing, this book delivers that. After reading this book I felt nostalgic for the fact that in todays overly litigious world, there are so few men left like Sonny Barger. Men who are willing to stand in the middle of town at high noon to fight for what they believe in. Having just read Michael Tenaglia's "Anti-Hero", I couldn't help but feel that Sonny Barger has unknowingly influenced, young writers like Tenaglia in so far as their ethical reasons for living outside of the law. In todays world, we need more Sonny Bargers, and less politicians. I recomend this book to all.
Rating: 2
Summary: Quite an exxagerated tale
Comment: Throughout the book, Sonny talks about one of the Oakland Chapters members, who he referrs to as Cincinatti. Now, whether this person is himself or not, I think that this person has imbibed in way too many foreign substances. There's multiple stories of running around and talking to ghosts, taking ghosts for rides on their motorcycles, then hooking the ghost up with ol' ladies in the ghost world, etc. There were other typical Sonny Barger hidden slams about other clubs selling their old ladies in houses of ill repute, when in reality, it's much more believable were it to have been a confession. Either way, I really like the quote from Freewheelin Frank in his own book (a 60's paperback, now out of print) where he Quotes Sonny as saying: "When I make money from the patches on my back, I will no longer be a Hell's Angel". Bravo. And to think, ghosts riding on your motorcycle, eh?
Rating: 2
Summary: Hell's Angel
Comment: Zimmerman's easy read of Barger's memories is a bit of history. One begins quite quickly to realize this history lacks credibility. Barger has reinvented the story of the gang-beating of Hunter Thompson. Skip Workman himself admitted in a 1967 television interview that women once in a while needed to be beaten like a rug. A woman's beating is the reason Thompson expressed his disapproval and was subsequently beaten (Workman's comments were specific to the Thompson beating). Barger softens the story in the book, as part of his overall attempt to change the reputation of the club and make them appear to be heroes. Barger further hopes to canonize himself through this self-fashioning. Once this credibility is broken, one cannot help but question the account of Barger's wife's accidental death while attempting to self abort. Barger freely admits he did not want children. As long as you are ready to indulge the over 60 Barger's attempt to use this quick read to convince you he is an American hero (he supported the Vietnam war), take a peek, it won't take much of your time.
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Title: Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club by Sonny Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman ISBN: 0060937548 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Dead in 5 Heartbeats : A Novel by Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Kent Zimmerman, Keith Zimmerman ISBN: 0060532513 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Street Justice by Chuck Zito, Joe Layden, Joseph Layden ISBN: 0312301243 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: I Was a Killer for the Hells Angels : The Story of Serge Quesnal by PIERRE MARTINEAU, JEAN-PAUL MURRAY ISBN: 0771054920 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Hell's Angels: "Three Can Keep a Secret If Two Are Dead" by Yves Lavigne ISBN: 0818405147 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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