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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
sheetsandink's review against another edition
3.0
Nothing really new here, and I felt like there were jumps all over in time, which was hard to follow (I was listening to the audiobook). Still, an interesting story and more proof that DT was a massive ball of turds from the very beginning.
tealgreen's review against another edition
5.0
This book is compelling and well-written. The family dynamics are fascinating. To think families like this exist is hard to believe, but it explains why Donald Trump is the way he is. It's a warning about the future too if he stays in office. I highly recommend it.
beatchik's review against another edition
3.0
The book was fine. Well written. It’s sad. But I had to stop reading 1/2 way through because I just never want to hear about Trump ever again. I don’t know that it matters why he’s an asshole & petulant man-child, just that he is exactly that.
italianlemons's review against another edition
3.0
This isn’t my kind of thing. I suppose I ordered and read it as an outlet for my own anger.
I admit that I couldn’t help but doubt the author’s motives and character at times. She is, after all, a member of this same family. (Knives out). I noted with an eye roll that she mentioned her support of Syrian refugees with odd timing and gladly agreed to ghost write a book promoting Trump after college graduation - among other things.
Still, it’s also likely that she was truly harmed in many ways - her father’s death, her loss of dignity when being expected to play the family game, and being cheated out of a fair inheritance are fair points of legitimate anger.
It’s also seems possible that she had far more of a chance to develop a moral compass, and maybe the book is her way of demonstrating that. I can’t imagine the shame of sharing the Trump name, and it’s reasonable to believe that she is as emotionally wounded by his presidency as the rest of us.
I may just dislike the book because I generally think a tell-all is like airing dirty laundry - and it’s not like we didn’t know that Donald Trump is a fraud before she published.
Perhaps I am just too sick of Donald Trump to appreciate a book about a pack of soulless grifters - even one so critical of them. Election Day can’t come soon enough.
I admit that I couldn’t help but doubt the author’s motives and character at times. She is, after all, a member of this same family. (Knives out). I noted with an eye roll that she mentioned her support of Syrian refugees with odd timing and gladly agreed to ghost write a book promoting Trump after college graduation - among other things.
Still, it’s also likely that she was truly harmed in many ways - her father’s death, her loss of dignity when being expected to play the family game, and being cheated out of a fair inheritance are fair points of legitimate anger.
It’s also seems possible that she had far more of a chance to develop a moral compass, and maybe the book is her way of demonstrating that. I can’t imagine the shame of sharing the Trump name, and it’s reasonable to believe that she is as emotionally wounded by his presidency as the rest of us.
I may just dislike the book because I generally think a tell-all is like airing dirty laundry - and it’s not like we didn’t know that Donald Trump is a fraud before she published.
Perhaps I am just too sick of Donald Trump to appreciate a book about a pack of soulless grifters - even one so critical of them. Election Day can’t come soon enough.
de_cadence's review against another edition
3.0
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Tolstoy