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The Cartel
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What can I say about "The Cartel"? Its characters live in a world where it's uncool to speak without swearing, wrong to use words of more than one syllable and unthinkable to speak in the English that grown ups use. The men are muscle bound hunks and spend most of the time waving their weapons (both kinds) around; for some reason all the women have gigantic asses.
It's like a 12 year old has been told to rewrite Scarface in the style of Kidulthood with all the characters played by cartoon versions of the imaginary offspring of Snoop Dog... and then ordered to remove anything that resembles a plot. The book even ends mid-scene! I know it's part of a trilogy, but come on!
For the first few pages "The Cartel" was quite amusing, but the heavy handed "Whassup?" style of writing soon began to grate... which brings me to the one positive note; like a filling at a good dentist, it was over mercifully quickly.
Update... as a footnote, I'm now sampling the delights of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep". It's a great example of how to use words to make the English language cool, unlike the misjudged attempt in The Cartel.
It's like a 12 year old has been told to rewrite Scarface in the style of Kidulthood with all the characters played by cartoon versions of the imaginary offspring of Snoop Dog... and then ordered to remove anything that resembles a plot. The book even ends mid-scene! I know it's part of a trilogy, but come on!
For the first few pages "The Cartel" was quite amusing, but the heavy handed "Whassup?" style of writing soon began to grate... which brings me to the one positive note; like a filling at a good dentist, it was over mercifully quickly.
Update... as a footnote, I'm now sampling the delights of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep". It's a great example of how to use words to make the English language cool, unlike the misjudged attempt in The Cartel.
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Reading Progress
October 28, 2011
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December 10, 2011
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Started Reading
December 11, 2011
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25.0%
December 14, 2011
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70.0%
December 16, 2011
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Finished Reading
October 15, 2021
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read-2010s
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May 17, 2014 11:43AM
A book plug. How grand!
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I agree the book is amusing but it's not written good at all. I feel like it's so unrealistic as well.
Quite clear this series isn't for you or for you to understand lol you wrote all of that and are still wrong but only because you weren't meant to understand it or the language used.
