librarymouse's review

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dark emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

The pacing of this book made it engaging despite the gravity of the information being discussed. Farrow is straightforward with his explanation of his own history with the issue of sexual assault, growing up in the shadow of what Woody Allen, their father, did to his sister Dylan, and the media shit storm that ensued. Intwining his own story, growing as a person and apologizing to his sister for the role he played in the covering up of her own trauma, kept this story grounded and away from the sensationalized scandalous text it could have become. In 2024, it is especially interesting and upsetting to see the intentional disruption of American news news to destroy information and skew political outcomes as done by Israel's government-backed Black Cube.

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ozymandias272's review

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challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0


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jamiejanae_6's review

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informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0


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aserra's review

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challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.25

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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heather_freshparchment's review against another edition

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dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0


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cfell's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.75


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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0


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4.5


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4.25


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dark tense fast-paced

4.75


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