review of desierto
Charles Bowden writes efficiently and manipulates your mind to try and think as he does. In the first book I read of his, Blue Desert, he rambles relentlessly about the problems of man and how we constantly fail the land. The next book I read of his, Desierto, is a combination of three different journals, and like the first novel he obsesses with the downfall of humans. The way in which he goes about describing the Seri's, the Drug lords and Charles Keating is almost mind-boggling. He will switch randomly in the novel, jumping from one story to the next; almost as if he didn't have any organization, but I believe that is to stress certain beliefs of his. The setting, fitting for him bounces from the southern Sonora desert, to Baja California and then right to the boardrooms, of Charles Keating in the urban area. I am lead to believe that Charles, like he states in Desierto, is in love with the cruelty display
The way Bowden wrote Desierto, is not surprisingly a little confusing, he switches randomly from story to story and also adds little vignettes, which are surprisingly relevant to what he writes about. His books are at best organized confusion; a paradox of is anger and contempt of American culture. In Desierto, he switches from a drug lord, that of course our Government would love to catch, then back to Keating, a man the government did catch for robbing the S&L industry and forcing the taxpayers to pay a couple of billion dollars for federally insured money. Obviously if the story randomly switches subjects, the setting must change as well. As always Bowden's description of the desert is lively, but this time filled with poor Sonorans who make better money in the drug industry than anything else. Then of course it jumps to Keating's beautiful office, then it will jump to a tiny island off the coast of Baja. It s
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