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Title: Ridin' High, Livin' Free : Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories by Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman ISBN: 0-06-000603-X Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Helmets Off to Barger and the Zimmermans
Comment: Coming down hard off my last two reads, Saramago's All the Names and Llosa's Feast of the Goat, although great books, I was primed to drop the academy for a while and get high on some hard-boiled treat of American narrative. Behind the well-designed pulp-ish cover of "Ridin' High, Livin' Free," rebels rule, Barger's book calls out, like drag pipes tearing through town, custom painted gas tanks a glint in your girlfriend's eye. Here's the raw, street-wise tone Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett made famous, from tattoos and tears to biceps and the poetry of the search, American style, like Route 66 it never ends. Anecdotal ironies abound, the mystique, the myth, the clubhouse fish tales, stories of life, the other side of life, just trying to get though life, hang on to your life, get out and ride to save your life¯a little sympathy is ok, but don't complain. Don't be afraid to pick up this book, mainstream middle class sensibilities need to be stomped. Professors, assign it for your Literature of the Deviant class. These tales are for and about those who can still think for themselves. And if you like documentary photography, some of these photos helped create the archetype. Ride high, live free, the American code. Helmets off to Barger and the Zimmermans. Thanks for the refresher course. Now I want to crank up my Road King, tear across the states and rip pages from this book in hopes they find windshields.
Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't Put it Down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: This collection of stories from the most famous 1%'er is a must read!!! Everyone who rides for the sense of freedom and escape it provides, will enjoy each and every chapter in this book. Simple stories speak columes of what riding free is all about. For those who are dreaming of riding, make sure this is your first stop in researching the idea. From the hilarious to the humbling, this book is meaningful and well written. Thanks Sonny for another great contribution!
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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