My Review and Thoughts:
Eye opening.
Disturbing.
Scary as hell.
Truly tragic.
An
exploration of some of the true life horrors taking place, and the tragic
reality that no one seems to care it is happening. Media lies, government
cover-ups.
This is a book that does not sugar coat the real truth.
It does not
promote the untruth that is forced down person’s throats, this book lays it
out, blunt, descriptive, horrifying, and in your face.
Bowden is unapologetic.
He is to the point. He is not scared to speak the truth, write the reality that
is happening. This is a book that everyone should read so that truth can be
experienced and not the cover-ups, lies that are so rampant.
Murder City is a book that is brutally honest.
Most of the
chapters are laid out in a fashion like your reading someone’s thoughts, or a
journal entry of the day, and news that has happened.
The book really has no
structure which makes it all the more unique and interesting, but most of all
brutal because of it’s lack of sanity, because what is written, and talked
about, and explored is true insanity, yet that insanity is all reality.
A
perfection in reporting. Very intense. Dark. Twisted, and yet it flows like an
average report of a day in the life of a victim, or at least those left behind
to experience the victim.
Would I Recommend: In a heart beat. It's a true truth of journalism at it's core. It creates an intensity of brutal reality. The horrible corruption and drug insanity plaguing and clouding Mexico and how the horror's are slowly spreading around cities, towns and states.
Would I Return to: I already have, this is my second time reading this book and it was just as brutal and intense as the first time. I highly recommend that you explore this book many times to fully grasp the horror's of real life.
My Rating: 5 out of 5
Four Final Words: Truthful, Complex, Visual Insanity.
“I’ve never done any kind of drug deal in my life. But I’ve
loaned out scales to friends who felt differently. So drop the notions you
carry about who is clean and not clean. Who is honest or dishonest will get you
closer to reality.” Page 80