The CIA Book Club by Charlie English

3.79 AVERAGE

klumsykitsune's review against another edition

4.0
dark informative reflective slow-paced

pemdas97's review against another edition

3.75
adventurous informative medium-paced

christina_swan's review against another edition

3.75
informative medium-paced
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notesfromthebookdrop's review

While the narrator was great, it was hard to pay attention. It’s also hard to read anything about dictatorships and censorship and government oppression right now.
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bookish_niamh's review against another edition

3.0
informative reflective slow-paced
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bookbookgoose's review

4.5
informative reflective medium-paced
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soljordan's review

3.75
informative mysterious tense fast-paced
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andiesmith's review against another edition

4.0
Have you ever joined a decades long book club where you risked your life to spread information and books? Me either. The story of the distribution of books and information behind the iron curtain is fascinating. Made me feel privilege I could read a book about it, but also scared that we maybe an iron curtain soon. 
 
This is pretty current history, spanning throughout The Cold War.
 
Well researched. almost 25% of the ebook was citations (huge fan).
 
A Pope took part in this.
 
Books are the scary to fascists and dictators.
 
Many risked their lives for information to be spread and books to be distributed.
 
Thank you NetGalley and Random House  #TheCIABookClub #NetGalley

summy1001's review against another edition

3.0
hopeful informative

conanmacg's review

Never properly started listening, found hard to keep up and somewhat uninteresting. Was not bad by any means. m