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Medianoche En Mexico: Un Periodista Desciende Por Las Tinieblas De Un Pais En Guerra (2014)

by Alfredo Corchado(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0804171068 (ISBN13: 9780804171069)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Vintage

review 1: About 100 pages in and I had to call it quits. Was looking for a book about the problems facing Mexico and some insight into how it came to be this way but what I got instead was a book about this one time (in band camp) the author thought he might be the target of a cartel assassination. The author's attempt to build suspense around this yet to be confirmed tip was both unnecessary and unsuccessful in my opinion. Just wanted to learn something not listen to this guy go on and on about his family and how he just HAS to get to the bottom of this possible threat on his life. A threat that in the first pages of the book has the author wondering if he'll be killed leaving his apartment but shortly after (with the hit still unconfirmed) he manages to find the time to take a... more relaxing nap on the beaches of San Pancho. Because who doesn't think to take a nap on the beach after they've just been threatened by one of the most ruthless criminal organizations in the world, in the home country of said TCO no less. Plus I'm pretty sure if you are writing a book about the incident several years later, the threat from the cartels must not have been that serious but whatever. Oh well, guess I'll be sure to read the dust jacket description more closely from here on.
review 2: This book is my first foray into a look at Mexican politics and I thought it would be interesting to look at it from a more "thrilling" perspective. If I read this book as completely verbatim, there is no way I would let anyone travel to Mexico and I'm surprised that the author is still alive. He seemed to not take threats seriously and then way too seriously. I chalk the flow of the book (which I found to be uneven) to his life of journalism. The book was suddenly sensational, and then dry, and then riveting!! and then political. I'm not even sure I would recommend it to someone but I did find it interesting. Meh? less

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