Reddit reviews Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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I don't know how many of you guys have read the book Methland but it's about Oelwein, Iowa, one of the Midwest's meth capitals for the last 35 or so years. I lived about 10 miles from Oelwein until I moved to college this year. I read the book a couple years ago, and the story that stuck with me was about a meth cook. A guy named Roland Jarvis. He was high as hell, and got paranoid, started seeing snipers in the trees (decapitated heads, no bodies mind you), and helicopters in the sky. He got scared he'd get caught with a meth lab. So he blew it up. When the shit involved in a good sized meth lab goes up in flames, it's pretty goddamned hot.
So this crazed bastard runs outside screaming. He feels strange, and starts pulling at the skin of his arms. It's melting off of him. No shit, he was burning alive so goddamned hot that his nerves instantly melted and he didn't even know he was on fire. He starts screaming "Kill me! Somebody fucking kill me!" and pulling at his melting flesh. Cops can't shoot him, no one can really help him. He gets himself put out, still begging to die, and the EMTs show up and get him to the hospital. He's horribly disfigured, but lives through this and tells the author about it.
Last summer, I'm working in a hog confinement with a former local cop who lost his job(s) for DUIs. Turns out, he was not only on duty that day in Oelwein but was first on the scene. The cop turned swine manager told us it was the funniest fucking thing he ever saw.
TL;DR: I worked with a sadistic former cop who watched a man burn alive after blowing up his meth house.
http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Death-Life-American-Small/dp/1608192075
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Lori Arnold is a major portion of the book Methland, which I recommend highly.
Edit - after reading the article, I recommend Methland over the first-person.
Great book about Iowa's meth problem.
Man, Iowa has got some great corn.
Best thing I ever ate tbh, when I see family up there that is all I eat basically.
On a shittier note though, meth runs rampant despite having a extremely low crime rate. (35th overall in states)
In fact the town my dad grew up in has a book written about it called Methland
He swears to me that he knows well more than half of the people mentioned in the book by name (most of the names were changed) and that a lot of the people in the book were friends/classmates
But other than that, I love how peaceful and old fashioned Iowa is. I wouldn't mind moving and rooting for the mavs from afar.
Methland by Nick Reding
It's brutal
http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Death-Life-American-Small/dp/1608192075/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427633767&sr=8-1&keywords=Methland
I came here to say this. Most meth isn't that domestic crap anymore. For a good read on the meth epidemic and why/how it affected small town America, check out Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town.