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3.25 AVERAGE
3.25 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
Felt disjointed. A little all over the place. Need to have a lot of prior knowledge to have actually understood and know what events were being mentioned
informative
tense
medium-paced
dark
funny
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
The writing itself could have been a bit more polished but boy was this book juicy and painful. Not surprising though sadly. Some guy who is known for his crap reality TV show treats his presidency like a crap reality TV show.
We all knew he was a dumb-dumb. Now the White House is turning into quite the circus. Lovely (sigh)..
Rambles a bit and doesn't exactly reveal anything we didn't pretty much implicitly know regarding the running of the presidency. I did get a better sense for who the personalities are outside of the caricatures they become for the Trump base though and, while I wouldn't go as far as sympathy, I do pity some of the more well-intentioned of the assembled human detritus and lizard people.
My recent political mantra is also "You can't make this shit up", I never knew Sean Spicer and I had so much in common!
My recent political mantra is also "You can't make this shit up", I never knew Sean Spicer and I had so much in common!
Ik weet niet hoe ik dit boek moet waarderen... als fictie, non-fictie, toekomstige historische roman vol Brutussen en een halve gare Ceasar? Staat het vol alternatieven feiten, nepnieuws, gissingen? Geen idee, maar ik weet wel dat het heerlijk luistert en dat al die 'paleis'intriges een geweldige tv-serie zouden opleveren.
Kortom, genieten. Totdat ik met het nieuws geconfronteerd word en besef dat er in ieder geval één ding waar is: DJT woont echt in het Witte Huis ... en verder? Verder sluit ik me aan bij Adam Dalva's review, want beter dan hij kan ik het niet vertellen.
Kortom, genieten. Totdat ik met het nieuws geconfronteerd word en besef dat er in ieder geval één ding waar is: DJT woont echt in het Witte Huis ... en verder? Verder sluit ik me aan bij Adam Dalva's review, want beter dan hij kan ik het niet vertellen.
Once the publisher received a cease and desist threat, I was compelled to purchase this horror story. Now I will go take a shower.
“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.” ― Maya Angelou
This quote always comes to mind when I think of Trump and, in his case, it rings so very true.
I was curious as to this book, in part due to the hype, in part for voyeurism. It's not, in itself, a bad book but it's far, FAR from being a superb read. Is it 'fake news'? I personally don't think it is, not when you know how Trump has always been, mainly a narcissistic egomaniac, a lying, a cheating, and yes, a bigot of a man. All of that has been proven in the past so, really, to believe he would have changed by becoming POTUS is beyond laughable. Also, considering the recent events that have happened since the book came out... well, it does seem Wolff's 45 is not too different from the real one.
I do believe that by perhaps trying to appeal to a wider audience, Wolff did himself a disservice, really. His book reads more like a novel than anything else. I can't help but compare it to one of Noam Chomsky's and see where he went wrong.
The claims made in "Fire and Fury" would not be so heatedly disputed had he been more clinical in his approach and less sensationalist. Nevertheless, it does not mean it is purely a work of fiction, far from it. After all, Trump has shown himself to be who he truly is on more than one occasion, and that is being someone unfit to be president.
This quote always comes to mind when I think of Trump and, in his case, it rings so very true.
I was curious as to this book, in part due to the hype, in part for voyeurism. It's not, in itself, a bad book but it's far, FAR from being a superb read. Is it 'fake news'? I personally don't think it is, not when you know how Trump has always been, mainly a narcissistic egomaniac, a lying, a cheating, and yes, a bigot of a man. All of that has been proven in the past so, really, to believe he would have changed by becoming POTUS is beyond laughable. Also, considering the recent events that have happened since the book came out... well, it does seem Wolff's 45 is not too different from the real one.
I do believe that by perhaps trying to appeal to a wider audience, Wolff did himself a disservice, really. His book reads more like a novel than anything else. I can't help but compare it to one of Noam Chomsky's and see where he went wrong.
The claims made in "Fire and Fury" would not be so heatedly disputed had he been more clinical in his approach and less sensationalist. Nevertheless, it does not mean it is purely a work of fiction, far from it. After all, Trump has shown himself to be who he truly is on more than one occasion, and that is being someone unfit to be president.
This book is like watching a train derail off a cliff and plummet into Oblivion without being able to look away. The allegations of shady dealings by the presidential administration are only matched by the shady tactics used to garner the information that they are based upon.
Perhaps what is most surprising about the book is that it seems to paint Bannon in a sympathetic light. The author basically suggests that Steve Bannon may have been the smartest person in the room for much of the period that this book covers despite his own chaotic and self-destructive tendencies.
Overall, the book is flawed like both its author and it's subject. It is difficult to argue for the absolute veracity of the allegations in the book because of the dubious methods used by the author. However, given the level to which we've seen the president publicly display his impulsive habits, it is difficult to wholly reject the central argument of the book.
Perhaps what is most surprising about the book is that it seems to paint Bannon in a sympathetic light. The author basically suggests that Steve Bannon may have been the smartest person in the room for much of the period that this book covers despite his own chaotic and self-destructive tendencies.
Overall, the book is flawed like both its author and it's subject. It is difficult to argue for the absolute veracity of the allegations in the book because of the dubious methods used by the author. However, given the level to which we've seen the president publicly display his impulsive habits, it is difficult to wholly reject the central argument of the book.