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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Wow, Tommy's mad at W & the current administration. And one can see why, after reading this true story of persecution and incarceration for the crime of being pro-pot in these parlous times. Shameful, that's what it is. Chong sounds like one expects, breezy, zen, a little muddled, but good natured. ( ) This is the tale of how Tommy Chong ended up being sent to prison for selling drug pariphernalia (he sold 'tobacco' pipes through an online company), and of the personal changes he underwent and lessons he learned through the experience. Chong's version of the legal process by which he was convicted is at times transparently self-serving, and occasionally borders on paranoid conspiracy-theorization. On the other hand, the book is surprisingly coherent, poignant, and honest. Chong does not apologize for having a self-serving perspective of how he came to be incarcerated, but the book is in part a story of his overcoming the significant (though simply human) vanity that leads to a victim identity. This story is a chronicle of Chong's transition from being a victim of circumstance to being focused on and aware of all the blessings which have come to him. I found Chong's sense of humor, particularly about his own failures and shortcomings, refreshing and entertaining. His musings on human behavior learned through his prison experience were insightful and intelligent. Altogether, this was an entertaining read with some good life lesson presented without getting too thick or clashing too much with the public persona that is "Chong". It seems somewhat ironic that I stumbled across this book -- which deals with comedian Tommy Chong's federal imprisonment for distribution of drug paraphernalia -- in the airport in Istanbul, Turkey. It's a far cry, though, from Midnight Express. In part autobiographical, the book deals largely with Chong's conviction and imprisonment. He focuses on the perceived unfairness of his sentence given his celebrity status but also makes clear that his stint in the joint certainly wasn't hard time. Although traces of Chong's humor show up in the book and he makes a valiant effort to show the impact of his spiritual ponderings since then, Chong has a tendency to ramble. That's not surprising given his style of humor but it undercuts the book. The lack of direction leaves it coming off more as a work he quickly dictated to a typist than a truly insightful or thoughtful analysis of what his case means with respect to the "war on drugs" and post-9/11 America. Originally posted at http://prairieprogressive.com/2006/12/04/book-briefs-3/ sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON. On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy's California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son's company, Chong Glass; and the Bush administration's determination to make an example out of the "Pope of Pot;" he was sentenced to nine months in prison because his company shipped bongs to a head shop in Pennsylvania that was a front for the DEA. Well . . . now it's Tommy Chong's turn to fight back and tell his side of the story. Beginning with Tommy's experiences growing up in Canada in the forties and fifties as a mixed-race kid and going on to become a comedy legend, The I Chong is at once a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9/11 American society. He tells the unbelievable story of his trip down the rabbit hole of America's war on drugs and of his experiences in the federal prison system, and he offers up timely observations on combating the conservative political forces at work in this country. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, The I Chong is a unique chronicle of one man's life and how his humorous and spiritual point of view saved him during his wrongful incarceration at the hands of an administration without boundaries. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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