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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

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librarymouse's review

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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celinbean's review

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challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

“In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out. And stories—the big ones, the true ones—can be caught but never killed.”

the bar for men is so low that it’s basically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here they are, limbo dancing with the devil

this was a very powerful book and i admire everyone who risked so much to finally get this story out. i honestly went into this somewhat blind. I knew about weinstein and what he had done but not much more. I had to google ronan farrow and read up about the whole story a little more while reading this. there were also a Lot of names to keep track of that are probably very easy to follow when you live in the states and keep up with the media and networks. But for me as a non American it took me awhile to get the names straight. this was still a well written and engaging account of how the weinstein story got published and what that process revealed about the silence around powerful predators.

i also listened to the audiobook and you can tell that farrow has done podcasts before. there was music played at the end of every part and he had different voices for different people he quoted. overall felt like a true crime podcast at times and i mean that in a very positive way

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bseigel's review

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challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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sneepsnorp's review against another edition

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informative

2.5

wichtiges buch, leider ist farrow kein besonders guter schriftsteller und die übersetzung tut ihm auch keinen gefallen

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ozymandias272's review

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challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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yikeslou's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

firstly i devoured this book in three sittings. i could not put it down. farrow writes like he's talking to you and i found it extremely easy to read in terms of sentence structure. the content was another matter entirely.

all i want to say is that farrow expertly shows the reader his process of compiling very painful stories with so much care to keep what's important at the center, realistically showing the toll it took on him without censoring his missteps or centering himself in a story that isn't really his. i respect him deeply for this and i can't recommend this book highly enough if you want to know more about how weinstein was brought down and why it took so damn long.

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