I know this book represents an enormous commitment on behalf of the author, but it just 'didn't do it for me'. The first twenty pages of 'inferior white boy' I took with a grain of salt, ya know, it's a book about the world of non-white gang bangers, so I endured it thinking the rest would sort of springboard off of that...it didn't. It's an interesting book, just too one sided for my taste. I mean, you could be talking about giving away free gold bars or the second coming...and I'd want both sides represented. Didn't happen here, at least not to my sensibility.Also the writing style, to me anyway, seemed like it wavered between a fictional novel and a nonfictional narrative, kind of all over the place. I didn't care for that and found it distracting.This is a quality book, but I didn't care for it for the reasons mentioned above.