For those of us who live in the inner city, The Wire is one of the BEST shows on TV right now. It depicts the inner workings of urban life in "Any City", USA(but set in Baltimore). It should not be compared to any Non Cable Network Drama. It captures the essence of what is going on from crime, to City Hall politics, to the police force, to education and how each one affects the other. It is the first TV drama to showcase a 90% black cast and each essential character(whether black or white) are three dimensional characters.

What most of the bloggers speak about or question about how this city is run on this website you will find a lot of answers or understand more how stuff really works. I'd encourage you to watch this show.

Of course this is my humble opinion, but I wouldn't steer you wrong.

Would any other fans agree?

David Simon and Ed Burns are doing amazing and important work. Simon was a newspaper reporter who wrote the book Homicide, which was about a year in the Baltimore homicide unit back when Baltimore was the murder capital of the USA. It came out in the 80s, I read it in the 90s, and it's another 10 years later and nothing has changed. Burns was a cop, a reporter, and a teacher. Together and with great supporting help, they are revealing why things are the way they are and why it hasn't changed in 20+ years.

Besides being important, it is also very involving and entertaining television.

It's great that HBO stayed with it so long and allowed it to get a following. I find references to The Wire from the most unlikely people.

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George Pelecanos writes for the show. If you like the TV drama, I'll guarantee you'll love his novels. I'd recommend Drama City, which is a ridiculously low $7.50 on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Drama-City-Geo...e=UTF8&s=books)

You'll finish his books in 3 days, open the Philly paper, and realize how spot on he is.

Thank you for the tips on his books. I will check them out while on vacation this week.

And hopefully give you an "op/ed" of sorts.

Ive seen it once....and no offense but since that depicts the so called city life to a better degree then people need to wake up and try and better themselves or this city will continue to go down the pooper.

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i'd start with soul circus or drama city. i wouldnt read his most recent, night gardener, until you've read earlier ones.

I can understand your sentiment to an extent. A lot of times you wonder how one person can make it and another can't.

The one thing I realize about life whether you grow up poor, rich, form a two parent household or one, is what usually makes a person a success is the internal drive to succeed and a person(s) believing in them and opening the door for them to succeed.

How many times in your life have you opened the door for someone else?

I think it also depends on how you measure success.

If one is Happy in life then they're a success. It's really that simple in my book.

No one needs to open a door for happiness, it's inherant in our make up, but many are diverted with lofty dreams of what success really is.

Life really does happen while were busy making plans, to quote John Lennon.

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Your right.

An education can make a world of difference in the pursuit of happiness. An education from the streets and academia can be great starting ground for a person's pursuit of ther ultimate happiness.

However, most people have not once in their life took the time out to help a person who wanted more out of life...just dimissed them by their name, their attractivness, their family lineage their skin color I can go on.....

Just a piece of information to a person in need can be the catalyst to their overall happiness. How many times has the average person missed out on making a difference in someone else's life?

This is turn is why I like the Wire so much, because this is shown without it being corny, or "we are the world-ish". The simplest kind act can make a world of difference.

Nobody ever opened this so called door for me...I fought my way to this point in my life, avoided drugs & crime and became successful becuase I wanted to be....It was hard work with blood, sweat & tears but I made it....and I made it on my own without any handouts or "open doors".

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"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though." ~Obama: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance