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Edward Snowden

4.31 AVERAGE

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

Absolutely fantastic. Victim of divorce gets the ultimate revenge. The pole dancing girlfriends response to slut shaming is the secret key to unlocking this AMAZING Greek tragedy. A must read for anyone who remembers learning about hot or not in 2600.

Best 3 star book I have red this year.

It drags a bit in the first part, but I really enjoyed the last part of the book.
Definitely worth a read

Fairly rite and dry recounting. Historical. Good overview of the issues.

I loved the intimate experience reading this book, just me, Ed and the NSA data tracking :)

Excellent. It’s even worse than you thought. Stop worrying about google and amazon. The us government is far far worse. It’s no exaggeration. Readable with a lot of personal history, not at all technical.

fascinating from start to finish, i think a must read for anyone in IT/Tech/Computer Science.
sharepoint really is a helluvah tool

Kind of scared to be living in a dystopian, kind of not going to change my use of technology, but definitely have a huge amount of respect for Edward Snowden.

Listened on audio - easy to follow and pretty quick. Might have liked to hear a bit more about any conflicting feelings he had about what he did or responding to criticism.

Remarkably well written, and there's plenty of grey area for reasonable and intelligent people to agree or disagree on various framings and actions that are covered for what is "right/just". Even though his writing can be grandiose in a way that is eye roll-inducing, I still have a very positive impression upon finishing this memoir.

I come away realizing I was rapt by a book where I disagree with much of the thinking in terms of “I work for the constitution, not the government” - encryption, privacy, and security are all essential tools to our modern existence, but leveraging pieces of paper written in the 1700s to be your primary set of principles for navigating challenges posed by ever-changing technology and its impact on society is naïve at best. And yes, his obsession with the Constitution runs so deep that he published this on Constitution Day...