Product Description

This will be a totally different kind of anthology to anything we've seen before, filled with everything but the predictable. Howard Marks has gathered together all of the unpublished material sent to him over the years from drug users, traffickers, smugglers, prisoners; people from all walks of life. Along with such insightful, funny and original work Marks will add his own personal collection of some of the best contemporary writing on drugs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111157 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Daily Mail
‘A folk legend…Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone’

FHM Magazine
‘Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction’

From the Publisher
Howard Marks’ Book of Dope Stories will take you on an electrifying journey through the discovery, consumption, and trade of mind-altering substances.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Useless !!
I have read Mr.Nice & found it excellent. However, if ever a book was rush released to cash in on an authors previous book, this was it. This book is complete drivel, period !

not what it says on the cover
Howard Marks' Book of Dope Stories is firstly, not about cannabis, the automatic first association with Marks, and secondly is not a book by Howard Marks.

Rather than a wide boy's bible, guaranteed to sell on the authors notoriety, this is an anthology of writings losely themed on the ideas of intoxication and drugs, of all sorts. The sources range from Thompson to Baudelaire and Marks is largely a silent partner. He has contributed a few pieces, mostly warmed over versions of earlier writings, and offers no commentary or notes on the pieces which make up the bulk of the work; something which would have enhanced the book as a whole.

That criticism withstanding, the book as a whole is a strong collection of well-chosen pieces. It is well-structured, though in places it becomes repetitive and dull. It is not a book to read from start to finish in a single sitting; like any anthology, each individual piece deserves to be read properly, and not just in the context of the book.

My main reservation with this otherwise very readable and useful anthology is in its misleading branding. It is not a book of dope stories by Howard Marks. The bulk of the material is philosophical or intellectual in tone, and comes from a huge range of writers.

If Marks is playing the game of luring people to this valuable material using his name and notoriety i have no problem. Introducing the uninitiated to Sabbag et al can only be good.

If, on the other hand, he is just cashing in on his name to sell books, without even bothering to write a book....

I think, given his background and intelligence, there's a bit of both in the truth.

I read someone else's copy, then bought my own anyway. it's worth having.

Rubbish dont buy
This book is truly boring and i agree with the last reviewer. He has thrown together a collection of chapters from various different books that have mentioned drug taking and then named it Mr marks book of dope stories. I would be surprised if he had involvement at all in this book other then his agent ringing him for a quick chapter about himself now and then. Truly one the worst books i have ever read.

Save your money and buy another book