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Nick Reding
Nick Reding is the author of The Last Cowboys at the End of the World, and his writing has appeared in Outside, Food and Wine, and Harper's. Born in St. Louis, he decided to move back to his hometown in the course of reporting this book. show more

Nick Reding is the author of The Last Cowboys at the End of the World, and his writing has appeared in Outside, Food and Wine, and Harper's. Born in St. Louis, he decided to move back to his hometown in the course of reporting this book.
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TeaStitchRead
TeaStitchRead rated it 9 years ago
Steven Suo's work with The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/meth/. Methland by Nick Reding is the story of how Olewein, Iowa (pronounced Ol-wine)became the became the living embodiment of the meth epidemic. There are many angles that Reding investigates to show how complex the...
moving under skies
moving under skies rated it 10 years ago
I got my copy of this from the library and I think some previous patron may have actual cooked meth over the book: it had all manner of gross, weirdly coloured chemical stains throughout. Normally, I would return such a suspicious copy and wait for one to come into my store, but in this case I was h...
Kealan Patrick Burke
Kealan Patrick Burke rated it 12 years ago
Using Oelwein, Iowa as the petri dish, though one could easily substitute any rural farming town in the US that has been hit by economical disaster, METHLAND is a confidently written, well-researched, accessible, and illuminating look into the methamphetamine "epidemic" and it's many probable causes...
Ms. Margie
Ms. Margie rated it 13 years ago
Sort of a hard book to rate. There's good information here, and I respect Reding's attempt to cover the entire scope of the meth epidemic, from Big Ag in the heartland to Big Pharma in Congress, to politics and NAFTA, and including the psychopharmacology of meth in one's brain.At the end of the epi...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it 14 years ago
a sobering look at the effect of the meth epidemic on the mid-east rural environment. The author has done a lot of research here, perhaps too much for such a short book. There is a good balance between anecdotal and socio-historic information. I did appreciate the author's knowledge on the economica...
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