I'm trying to slog through Underworld by Don Delillo. Anyone ever read this book? It's certainly well written but it just, I don't know, doesn't really get me.
As for the books listed above... I recently read the Ralph "Sonny" Barger autobiography (he was the big man of the Hell's Angels for a long time) and while it has the typical "I'm the greatest person in history" stench of all Alpha-Male autobiographies, it's still a good read. Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" is kind of good in a naïve sort of a way. It was written in 1965 when all they did was not bathe often and they beat people up and that was apparently really all they did in those days. It's fun to look back and see what they considered crazy criminal behavior 40 years ago compared to what we hear about now.
I also recently read "The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin" which isn't an autobiography at all and is actually fiction (it's historical fiction I guess) and that's an alright book. He really hated Trotsky (which is obvious since he had him clipped) and it kinda focusses too much on that and the writer can't quite pull off the "shocking part of the book" part but still it's alright.
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