Interesting, but repetitive
Overall, Quinones' book was very interesting and I really liked the juxtaposition between the pharmacists and the heroin dealers. He treats them as independent entities, alternating his narrative back and forth throughout the book, however still manages to show how eerily similar they both were. That being said, I found the book very repetitive - he must have described the addict's transition from Oxy to heroin at least 15 times in 350 pages (or at least it felt like it). It became somewhat burdensome, and although I tried to tell myself that this was a symbolic narrative representation of the repetitive persistence of drug use and addiction, I found myself skimming quite a bit, especially towards the end.
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