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kurtwombat 's review for:
American Desperado: My Life
by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright, Mark Bramhall
dark
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
I will admit to a bit of a quandary. The subject of this book is despicable and virtually everything detailed in this book is despicable. This guy deserves an unkind fate. Yet—his story is fascinating and wildly entertaining. Told with a clever directness and bracing humor, I had little choice but to be drawn into the narrative—it’s part of the human condition to identify with the narrator, the act of reading mimics the voice in our own head. So in a sense I was a drug smuggler who beat and killed people. Since this is not how I wish to see myself and the author chooses not to see himself any other way, I chafed at giving this book five stars. Of course, that is the smallest imaginable rebuke for his chosen lifestyle. Any smaller and it would vanish altogether. The compulsiveness, however, with which I devoured the audiobook of this memoir allows me to go no lower. (while the author was always able to go lower) If you are interested in this stuff at all—you will love this.