Re: Books I\'ve read, bought, or might read
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The Last Opium Den (Nick Tosches) - About a guy's quest to find a genuine opium den, treks across Asia etc. OK, definitely not great.
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Wow I've never heard of this book before you mentioned it, but someone stole my dream!
Care to post a review about it?
+ Did he find one?
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I read an excerpt from this in a magazine someplace. The thing that stuck with me was a statement about opium addiction. The author mentioned what horrible overkill heroin and morphine were, compared to the slow, tea ceremony pace of opium smoking. Opium smoked this way, he said, was no more addictive than cigarettes.
Not that that's great, I suppose, but at least you wouldn't find yourself retching and wishing to die in some fleabag room.
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