Murder City

[Joseph Tracy]

I agree, Rich ,  that the combination of 2666's endless lists of  
details about women killed and the contrast of academic culture with  
Juarez and Bowden's combination of specific investigation and hard  
headed big-picture analysis are a remarkable combination, giving  as  
compelling a picture of modern insanity and  a country turning into  
hell as can be accomplished with words.

The banks are bankrupt and criminal, oil  and God knows what   
chemicals are filling a huge ecosystem, Drug dealers with guns run  
huge parts of the world, and in the US we can't decide whether we  
want Democrats or Republicans to run the corporate rape we call  
government. IV hardly qualifies as satire. It is hard for satirists  
to imagine a picture so exaggerated that it will not appear as news  
headlines.

On May 21, 2010, at 10:36 AM, rich wrote:

> for anyone who read 2666 you probably want to also read Charles
> Bowden's Murder City and the hell of Cuidad Juarez.
>
> Its beyond sobering...
>
> rich