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An incredibly important, thorough, riveting book. Farrow displays a high standard for journalism that I think is not observed often anymore. Engaging writing style. Strong morals--Farrow doesn't just say that he wants the focus to be on exposing this horror in the interest of stopping it, he shows it.

What keeps the book from a solid 5, for me, is a layout choice; it could have been very helpful, I think, to have a list/glossary of the people in the book somewhere, perhaps before or after the bibliography. There's a lot of names, and I, personally, struggled to keep track of everyone (which also augments the repugnance of what is uncovered--so many people impacted, so many people complicit).

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challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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5.0

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5.0

Farrow tells such a gripping story. It is astonishing how strong the network that protected these men was. Listening to the audiobook, I oscillated between enraged, frustrated, and hopeful.

I was also amazed by the fact that the whole thing came about not because this one journalist was determined and incorruptible, but because many individuals chose to do the right thing at great personal risk. Not just the women who went public with their names and faces, but the PI who was hired to intimidate a journalist and chose not to, the NBC producer who was pressured and chose to carry on, the leak in the espionage agency who sent Farrow documents because she believed protecting rapists is wrong. Damn.

Re the accents Farrow does in the audiobook: do I wish he'd done them better? Yes. Did I find it impossible to look past? No.

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4.0

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4.75

I saw this book on my bookshelf today while I was packing, and on a whim checked to see if the audiobook was available on libby. Ended up immediately listening to it without putting it down once, fully captivated in the (completely true) spy thriller pacing of the book. The corruption and coverups run so much deeper throughout the entire political and media landscape than I ever dared think. Ronan not only brought very important allegations of sexual misconduct into the public consciousness on behalf of silenced women, he also proceeded to lift the veil on systemic issues within NBC and other news organizations.

Of course, five years after #metoo, I knew where the story would end up, but that did not detract from my engagement with the plot. It is also very important for us to see how difficult it was to break the Harvey Weinstein story within NBC, the very real threats made against journalists, and how enmeshed all top execs (across industries) are in this big cabal to keep victims silenced.

I did wish Ronan Farrow did not attempt to do accents for all the quotes - they were mediocre and distracting. He comes off as a bit self-righteous at times, but honestly, I kind of think he deserves to be.

One of the most engagingly written pieces of investigative journalism I've read. I do read around 30% nonfiction, and Farrow wrote this in a way that I think fiction readers would not find intimidating. To all the readers out there scared by nonfiction: pick this up. You won't regret it.

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4.0

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