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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.210484
EAN: 9781416534402
ISBN: 1416534407
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: March 04, 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Sales Rank: 20765
Studio: Free Press
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Product Description:
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the Sierra Madre, which is home to bandits, drug smugglers, Mormons, cave-dwelling Tarahumara Indians, opium farmers, cowboys, and other assorted outcasts. Outsiders are not welcome; drugs are the primary source of income; murder is all but a regional pastime. The Mexican army occasionally goes in to burn marijuana and opium crops -- the modern treasure of the Sierra Madre -- but otherwise the government stays away. In its stead are the drug lords, who have made it one of the biggest drug-producing areas in the world.
Fifteen years ago, journalist Richard Grant developed what he calls "an unfortunate fascination" with this lawless place. Locals warned that he would meet his death there, but he didn't believe them -- until his last trip. During his travels Grant visited a folk healer for his insomnia and was prescribed rattlesnake pills, attended bizarre religious rituals, consorted with cocaine-snorting policemen, taught English to Guarijio Indians, and dug for buried treasure. On his last visit, his reckless adventure spiraled into his own personal heart of darkness when cocaine-fueled Mexican hillbillies hunted him through the woods all night, bent on killing him for sport.
With gorgeous detail, fascinating insight, and an undercurrent of dark humor, God's Middle Finger brings to vivid life a truly unique and uncharted world.
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Richard Grant does not take Gonzo journalism to the places that Hunter S Thompson did, with the amped up, drug fueled non-stop self abuse that was written in the 1970's, but his version is the same premise.
Go to a God-forsaken place where one's life is randomly spared each day the sun comes up, and live to write about it.
At the soul of the story is Joe Brown, a seventy something author who has lived at the foothills of the Sierra Madre, and braved a rough, hardscrabble ... Read More
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"God's Middle Finger" reminded me of a much racier version of articles from the old men's adventure magazine, Argosy. The writing here is proficient, and each of the many episodes included in the book is eminently readable and fun. Ultimately, what I didn't get about this book was why anyone would want to go into the Mexican Sierra Madre. If Richard Grant's description of the area is half accurate, there's not much there but dust, heartache and the great risk of dying a violent death. There's ... Read More
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This book is a travel memoir of the author's trips through the Sierra Madre in Northern Mexico. Grant, a writer from Britain, developed a fascination with the area and decided he would travel through the region to see what he could see. He was not looking for scenic vistas, however, but death defying adventures. Along his route, he met drunks, drug traffickers, farmers and ordinary folk just trying to make a living.
I never heard of the Sierra Madre before reading this book, and I ... Read More
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One of the great cliches of horror fiction involves the character - often a reporter - who decides to go to a forbidden area. The place has a bad reputation and people warn him not to go, but he plays down the threats and goes anyways, only to find himself in over his head. When reading a horror novel or watching a horror movie, we often wonder if the guy is a bit of an idiot. What then, should the reader think of Richard Grant, the author of God's Middle Finger?
Grant decides to make ... Read More
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This book began as an inspiring romp into the last vestige of the old west. The canyon land of the Mexican Sierras was described for us gringos who've never gotten this far south of the border, and the culture, from an outsider's perspective, somewhat illuminated. However, somewhere around the middle of the book I began to find the author's account somewhat superficial and in fact, a bit dull. He promised us Hollywood style theatrics on the first page, but delivered neither these, nor a serious accounting ... Read More
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