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A review by relfal
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
2.0
This book is incredibly repetitive. The Xalisco black tar heroin business model is interesting, but the author describes it over and over again, in almost the same words. How many times we do we need to know the story of a cop in a different city figuring out how the local heroin trade worked? Same with the details about prescription pain medications. The book could easily have been cut by 1/3.
I also found it frustrating that narrative jumped around from place to place and person to person. The chapters are all very short, and so we spend a few pages with one character, then jump to another, again and again. Often there is no link at all between one chapter and the next: one chapter is about a law suit in North Carolina, and the next begins with the history of the Russian Pentecostal movement. Such a frustrating read.
I also found it frustrating that narrative jumped around from place to place and person to person. The chapters are all very short, and so we spend a few pages with one character, then jump to another, again and again. Often there is no link at all between one chapter and the next: one chapter is about a law suit in North Carolina, and the next begins with the history of the Russian Pentecostal movement. Such a frustrating read.