3.5/5 Estrellas, pero lo dejo en 3 por el poso global que me deja al acabar la lectura.Siguiendo un poco el estilo del libro, tras acabarlo se me ocurren varias opciones:a) Esto es una ventana a lo peor de la sociedad, el maldito mundo de la droga, que no trae más que dolor y sufrimiento a las personas y a las sociedades.b) Un libro de aventuras en la que dos tipos intrépidos e inteligentes se enfrentan a toda una organización delictiva, sin olvidar a la chica que los acompaña, en plan Cassidy y...

“Your strengths are your weaknesses.The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.” ― Don Winslow, Savages"We reinvented ourselves every day, remade our culture, locked ourselves in gated communities, we ate healthy food, we gave up smoking, we lifted our faces while avoiding the sun, we had our skin peeled, our lines removed, our fat sucked away like our unwanted babies, we defied aging and death. We made gods of wealth and health. A religion of narcissism.In the end, w...

“Savages” is on the surface a full-out action thriller about a trio of Laguna Beach kids who have become very wealthy off hydro farming and their battle with the Baja cartel that wants in on their action. It is fast-paced action that almost never lets up from beginning to end. But, the thing about “Savages” is that that it may be about more than just a drug war thriller. It is about the age-old battle between civilized society and the savages and the thing is that savages don’t play by civilized...

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ “Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it’s good, if you catch the reverse moral polarity of it.” That awkward moment when you are incurring a library fine because you’re too lazy to just WRITE THE G.D. REVIEW ALREADY!!! I also noticed today that this is apparently #2 in the series and I had no idea it was turned into a movie a few years ago until my husband not so kindly informed me . . . What can I say? I’m not so qu...

Each paragraph like a stick of dynamite; it's the paragraph, the singular block that comprises the graphic novel that's very much post-YA, post-Bret E Ellis punch to the face... & of course it's very amoral & gruesome.This novel was alarming to me because, as a zeitgeisty book, it tells of conspicuous consumption which in the 80's was ultra-cool, but in the 2010's equates the acquisition of material things to a biological process-- a need that's as basic & primordial as breathing.The...

12/10/23 addendum: I read this in 2012. Please keep in mind that I was being somewhat hyperbolic in my review. It was strictly for humor purposes. If I offend thee, I'm sorry. That said: I really don't like potheads...First, let's talk about Don Winslow's killer prose. It's brilliant: James Ellroy riffing on Jack Kerouac with the attitude of a Miles Davis song. It's haiku on steroids. Winslow is a punk-rock Shakespeare. Second, let's talk about how Winslow has written the first Obama-era pothead...

There's a good story here, and it's told in a blisteringly fast manner that would work really well if the author weren't so obsessed with showing how "hip" he is by making up pretend slang that no young (or non-young) person has ever used. The corny wordplay and ridiculous geographic nicknames peppered throughout the book are just painful to read. There was much cringing. It's what you would get if you put Diablo Cody's "Juno" character into a movie about a brutal drug war in which a bunch of pe...

“Something they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School.‘Savages, How to Deal With.’Savagely.” The Good, The Bad and the Ugly an infamous trio the three amigos and the three stooges funny trios. When it comes to threesome there are many.One trio you will soon be taking note of are the likes of Ben, Chon and the wonderful O or her real name Ophelia, in this Drug cartel solid thriller from Don Winslow.The story is about lucrative money making with a specially brewed drug herb that th...

If these two wordsmithing masters of dialogue, tone and hip colloquialisms ever had a literary LOVE CHILD…..it would DON WINSLOW.I loved, loved, loved every single page of this thrilltastic story. Don Winslow has instantly become an author whose next book I will buy sight unseen. His writing, his tone, his slick as shit story-telling are all intelligent, original, hiply sparse and kick-ass coolio. The basic plot is very simple (though the execution of it is anything but). Chon and Ben are th...

Ben and Chon are the oddest of odd couples. Ben is a brilliant botanist and liberal do-gooder who spends his spare time in third world countries setting up clinics and schools. Chon (a nickname based on his real name, John) is an ex-Navy SEAL and Afghanistan veteran with a bad attitude and sincere belief that most people are just pretending to be civilized. Despite their differences, the two men are best friends and even knowingly share a girlfriend, Ophelia (also known as O.), who loves sex and...