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Painful

Revisado: 10-14-24

I have read a bit about this story and was looking for a new take. Leave it to Rosamund Pike to make it painful.
Her overly sympathetic tone towards the Murphys and dragging out the Rosenbergs’ delusional son is not a good look. Her narrative style is as wooden as her roles in Radioactive, Beirut and Wheel of Time. The subject matter and the interviews with the fbi is the only saving grace here.

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Good primer on how to think about people different than you.

Revisado: 07-30-24

Lots of good guidelines here about giving people who differ from you a bit of grace.
They lost me a bit at the end of chapter 4 by elevating the Hearing Voices movement of the 80s, but otherwise it is a helpful eye opening listen

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This didn’t age well

Revisado: 05-28-24

William Perry is a smart guy, but hopelessly naive.
RF behavior since the fall of USSR is not the fault of western provocation, but an attempt to reset history so they are a major actor again.
Reducing our deterrent forces in response to RF protests is taking liars at their word as proven by the events in Eastern Europe today.
We need to update our deterrence, harden communications lines in the west and prepare for what will arguably be a surprise attack which RT is preparing for by the recent deployment of space weapons on their part.
Since 1945, we have refined our NC3 with every false alarm. The reliability of our sensors today is orders of magnitude better than it was even in the 90s.
William Perry wants disarmament at all costs because it’s his life’s work, not because the evidence shows that we are just seconds from a mishap, which we aren’t.
A strong nuclear AND conventional deterrent at a state of high rediness against at least two major powers is the right way.

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Whyyy?

Revisado: 05-09-24

I don’t know why I do this to myself.
I’ve listened to a few Annie Jacobsen books over the years and they are always overwrought and questionably sourced, but she picks subjects I love so I buy them.
This is no different.
Thin on substance, thick on editorializing.

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Opinion masquerading as research

Revisado: 05-09-24

The narrator is great.
The material is bad.
Less than 10% of the book has anything to do with authors actual research findings. The rest is cherry picked anecdotes (available from many other sources) of failures of classification, mixed in with the author’s opinions on what the government would be better off spending time and money on.
The author means well, but their writing is so chocked with biased rhetoric that it makes it seem as if they are using their grant $ to pursue an agenda vs identify actual problems and solutions.
Hard to take it seriously.

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40 years later and still relevant.

Revisado: 05-02-23

The only thing that has changed is the speed of the computers and the level of public apathy have both gone WAY up.

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Outstanding

Revisado: 11-28-22

A great book. I was delighted and saddened, thrilled and terrified by the things these amazing people go through. Her wit is sharp and her writing accessible.
The reader did a great job bringing it to life.

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Kind of reaching

Revisado: 11-23-22

The author makes quite a few speculative leaps to get to her hypothesis that Lyme Disease is related to government weapons research.
Fun read, but no slam dunk case.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 11-13-22

The performance is quite good.

The book itself however is tedious. The author spends about 50% of her time talking about her family history and the history of the surrounding county. 30% is parroting facts from other’s works. The remainder is overwrought pearl-clutching and leaps of imagination to connect her life to the Unabomber, and in doing so, make it something more than average.

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Amazing

Revisado: 06-20-21

This is a great story of outstanding women.
I cried great sobbing tears in my work truck for their triumphs and their setbacks.

Thank you WASPs

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