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Hella Nation: Looking For Happy Meals In Kandahar, Rocking The Side Pipe,Wingnut's War Against The GAP, And Other Adventures With The Totally Lost Tribes Of America (2009)

by Evan Wright(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399155740 (ISBN13: 9780399155741)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Putnam Adult

review 1: Like Joseph Mitchell or A.J. Liebling (although on less traditional mood altering substances), Wright discovers that even when--or especially when--a subculture arranges things to signal "fuck off" to outsiders, a very minor amount of time acting interested will result in strange people desperate to tell you about their spectacularly ill-thought out worldview and activities. In this collection, culled from Wrights articles for Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, he is the recipient of crackpot wisdom from Aryan Nations newlyweds, eco-terrorists, taxi dancers and their clients, skateboarders, lawyers breeding fighting dogs for prison inmates, porn actors, UFC-addled participants and Pat Dollard.
review 2: This dark, twisted book by Evan Wright made for irresistable ... moreand gleefully perverse reading. Wright is an award winning journalist for "Hustler," "Rolling Stone," and other notable mags. He covers a wide swath from grunts in Afganistan on the hunt for terrorists and sexual release, skateboarders living lives of excess and short-lived glory, taxi-dancers in the Los Angeles inhabitating the twilight world of paid companionship, and of a convict raising viscious canines with the help of some truly warped sympathizers (we're talking beastialty here). Motley Crue tries to relive their glory(?) years in peverse delight. This discursive book, at times graphic, hilarious, depraved and deeply human, examines the cracks in human nature. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. less

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