readers_block 's review for:

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

5.0

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For me, the measure of a nonfiction book lies not just in the knowledge it imparts but in its entertainment value. To be truly blown away by it, it must read like a novel. Dreamland does just that. With short chapters full of anecdotes and personalities, Quinones intersperses facts and figures so seamlessly that you don't realize how much you've absorbed until much later.

A combination tale of small town in Mexico, the birth of modern pharmaceutical advertising and salesmen, and the big pharma business as well as human nature, pain, and happiness.

Everybody should read this.