![]() The book also feels like an advertisement for Alcoholics Anonymous at times. For example, the descriptions of pot use by Hal, Erdedy, and Kate Gombert are pretty similar. The author is a total drug nerd who loves showing off his encyclopedic knowledge of both recreational and prescription drugs, but it get repetitious. ![]() We get a firehose of extraneous information pointed at us. The book is way longer than it needs to be with extended descriptions of things like a building’s intake and exhaust fans. If this wasn’t bad enough, several of the endnotes have footnotes of their own. The shorter ones could have been parenthetical statements, and the long ones should have just been chapters in their own right. Annoyingly, many of the endnotes didn’t need to be endnotes. There are over a hundred pages of endnotes, so you have to keep flipping to the end of the book while you’re reading. Where to begin? First off, its run-on sentences, paragraphs that are pages long, and chapters in which nothing much happens make it a chore to read. ![]()
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