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A review by annoeing
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T. Smith
3.0
Ahahaha you can really tell that amid his researching, the author definitely got carried away watching a bunch of movies related to Mexican drug trading and passed it off as doing homework. Cause like you'll be reading pages of facts and true recounts and then suddenly the author would be like 'oh yeah this reminds me of this stereotypical mexican movie about trading drugs' and then proceeds to write a detailed - and sometimes over elaborate - summary of the whole movie (like those Wikipedia pages for famous films and stuff). And he also spoils them! Like he'll tell you the ending and everything lol.
I think what makes it the most ironic is that he also states at the beginning of the book and stuff about how these kind of movies and literature cause stereotypes which affect how accurate data surrounding drugs in Mexico are collected. So essentially he would talk and give a whole ass movie review only to be like 'anywaysss that's not relevant' lmao.
But idk this book is like super dense and it just gets a bit too much sometimes where the details become repetitive and starts to get jumbled up and stuff. There's alot of like anecdotes which are really interesting though.
I think what makes it the most ironic is that he also states at the beginning of the book and stuff about how these kind of movies and literature cause stereotypes which affect how accurate data surrounding drugs in Mexico are collected. So essentially he would talk and give a whole ass movie review only to be like 'anywaysss that's not relevant' lmao.
But idk this book is like super dense and it just gets a bit too much sometimes where the details become repetitive and starts to get jumbled up and stuff. There's alot of like anecdotes which are really interesting though.