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Great book on the crypto scam

Revisado: 11-01-23

This is the first book or article I’ve read that actually explains what Faux call the crypto casino. Excellent at both explicating the bizarre crypto phenomenon and as a piece of investigative journalism. Far better than the Michael Lewis flash for piece going infinite

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Not worth it

Revisado: 10-25-23

This books seems to have mostly been written before the FTX downfall. Lewis does not reinterpret or revisit events in light of the scandal. Instead, from both laziness and stupidity, he attempts to resuscitate SBF.

Everyone who is against SBF according to Lewis is too dumb to understand “Sam’s world”.
Only SNF and Lewis understand Sam’s world. Ray, the ceo who took over the ftx mess, doesn’t understand anything according to Lewis. Though, Ray’s biggest most damning charges, that SBF funded Alameda with FTX consumer deposits and that FTX and alameda had no controls of any sort, no risk officer, nor org chart and no real structure, are all corroborated in the book.

This book, instead of explaining SBF and FTX, explains what happens when a writer get to enamored with his subject and losses perspective.

Lewis-you struck out.

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Amazing story

Revisado: 11-09-22

This is a must read for anyone interested in the holocaust, societal indifference and what the will of an amazing human being can do to live through these worst years of humanity.
Beautiful told and read by the author.

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Sad legacy of Catholicism

Revisado: 05-16-21

This book is a repudiation of all attempted whitewashing of catholic complicity in modern anti Semitism-including nazism

Kertzer brilliantly demonstrates that catholic anti Semitism was a product of a modern and virulent strain of church sanctioned anti semitism-led by popes, future popes and those close to the pope

Kertzer - using the Vatican’s own archives - traces many of the most caustic and inhumane anti Semitic tropes, including Protocols of the Elders of Zion, jewish domination, blood libels and jewish conspiracies-back to the church, which were either created by the church or promulgated by the church.

It is sad and hypocritical, though, sadly, not shocking, that an institution that preaches confession of sin as part of forgiveness cannot bring itself to confess its own sins.

A truly shameful history, the repercussion of which we continue to live with to this day.

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Courageous account of what really happened.

Revisado: 04-01-19

Neighbors is a courageous telling of the truth of what happened to many polish Jews during WWII. Killed not by nazis or the German army but by their own neighbors. This story is well known to the few victims who survived the murders, but rarely told. Shamefully, Poland still refuses to admit to the less than heroic tale of their own nations part as Hitler’s willing executioners.

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Amazing performance

Revisado: 08-04-17

Gilbert's biography provides a comprehensive overview of a remarkable life in a relatively short book. A great book for those, like me, who know little about Churchill and wish to learn more. One quibble, I wish the book provided more insight into Churchill's psyche. Rodska's performance is extraordinarily.

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Misleading title and partisan history

Revisado: 11-20-16

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

This book subtitled "The rise of ISIS" spends less than a 1/3 of the text actually describing ISIS. Instead, the book details the rise and death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in 2006, long before the Syrian crisis and the true rise of ISIS. Unfortunately, even given this attention, I gained little insight into Zarqawi's character from the text.

What was most disappointing about Joby Warrick’s story?

By focusing in on the rise of Zarqawi, who was killed in 2006, Warrick is able to blame the Bush administration for the rise of ISIS. The Bush policy shortsightedness and failures are well known and better documented elsewhere. However, the Obama administration, oppressive Arabic regimes, the Jordanian government and even Islamic radicalism are all let off the hook by Mr. Warrick. Why? The Jordanians foolishly released Zarqawi from prison, yet Warrick plays the role of Jordanian apologist. Why? The Obama administration failure to respect self imposed "red lines," abandonment of a leadership role in the Middle East and complete failure to see the oncoming extremist threat, despite real time warnings, is not even discussed by Mr. Warrick. Why not? Arab countries willingness and even active participation in anti-American and anti-semitic rhetoric is not discussed as a radicalizing force. Nor, is the oppressive Arabic regimes discussed as possible destabilizing threat. Why not?
The only reason is that Mr. Warrick eschewed a complex etiology for the ISIS rise in favor of a partisan, everything-is-Bush's-fault, ideology. As such, this book fails in explaining anything other than the author's very own prejudices.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Sunil Malhotra?

Anyone who could properly pronounce Arabic names.

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Great story marred by narrator and epilogue

Revisado: 10-09-16

A well deserved, adequately researched and well written account of the Entebbe rescue is marred by the mediocre, tendentious and reflexively anti-Israel, Israel-is-to-blame-for-everything conclusion. Additionally, the narrator either didn't care to learn or couldn't pronounce basic Hebrew vowels and the 'kh' guttural.

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