This is one of the stranger reviews Forest of Fortune has gotten or is likely to get: Curtis Dawkins is the chief book reviewer for BULL Men’s Fiction. He’s also an inmate of Michigan Reformatory in Ionia, Michigan, and he writes the appropriately titled prison reviews. Dawkins’s reviews are fascinating because they offer a glimpse of his life behind bars. For instance, in this review he talks about getting gassed.
This particular extraction apparently required tear gas and through the open windows or ventilation system, the gas found its way to sections of the blocks around the actual gassing. We didn’t know they were extricating or gassing someone, of course, so I had no idea what was going on when my eyes began watering, my throat burned, and I began to sneeze.
The review is mostly positive, though I question his math when he break downs Pemberton’s cocaine consumption. $100 a gram? Now that, my friends, is a crime.
