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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

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poisoncaprisun's review against another edition

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4.75

super enjoyable read. i have nothing but admiration for the clear devotion to research and compilation of data/testimony/history that is here

i do agree that it is quite repetitive at times. i especially hated how she would say "and things were horrible.... JUST like they would be x years later in iraq....." after every single example leading up to iraq lol. i think at some point i wrote down "we get it it happened in iraq too." and yes she basically says the same conclusion after every country has gone through the outlined disaster course, but i dont think she included 'too many' examples. she could have gone through them a little more quickly instead of framing them as if they all revealed something new but more proof is not a bad thing.

interesting to me that people are critiquing her lack of a solution. i felt the ending paragraphs quite clearly described what she viewed as a preferable alternative to privatized disaster relief and war industry. but at the same time, i dont think authors of books like this necessarily owe anyone a solution, especially when the primary focus is reporting/journalism.

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brynalexa's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

A very important read and extremely relevant now with the current genocide of the Palestinian people. It’s all connected.

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5.0

Wow. A must read.

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ccerpa's review against another edition

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5.0

So damn good… she had me hooked and coming back to listen (to the audiobook) whenever I had a free moment, which is often hard for me with non-fiction books, much less one about economics! This has been in my TBR list since 2020 and I’m ashamed it took me so long

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challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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zosiablue's review against another edition

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dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

7000 stars. I'm always going to remember reading this slowly over two months at Wild Grind each morning as summer turned to fall, and feeling the most bonkers emotions from grief to rage to hope. There has never been a book that so cleanly makes the case that free market capitalism and the US's involvement in "rebuilding" other countries is a blatant and cruel scam. And this was published in 2007! To know what's transpired since publication is to know the worst was yet to come. Astonishing,

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spicewitch's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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wetsokcs's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

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hirundo's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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dark informative medium-paced

4.5

Accidentally did the abridged version audiobook so take my review with a grain of salt I suppose.

Really great book, as a genzennial ('00) I was really blown away by the uncensored accounts of events I was too young or unborn to understand. However maybe I am not the ideal reader, imo the "shock" metaphor was a liiiittle heavy-handed at times if you are already on board with the idea that economic policy is just as/even more oppressive as social policy.

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