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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
4.26 AVERAGE
1.01k reviews for:
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
4.26 AVERAGE
so i don’t think many people would consider this a riveting beach/pool honeymoon read but to be fair many people have not spent their own time in russia or gotten degrees in russian and history and political science
anyways. kind of embarrassing to say how riveted i was by some white guy doing capitalism in russia but man. this was an excellent read. i’ll probably go off and do my own fact checking after this but a lot of this happened like. almost a decade before i got invested in politics at all, let alone russian politics, and it really does help fill in the gaps for me
anyways. kind of embarrassing to say how riveted i was by some white guy doing capitalism in russia but man. this was an excellent read. i’ll probably go off and do my own fact checking after this but a lot of this happened like. almost a decade before i got invested in politics at all, let alone russian politics, and it really does help fill in the gaps for me
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This book has:
1. A really interesting story about starting a (I believe the first) foreign investment fund in Russia. I especially enjoyed this part and it thought me a lot about business in general.
2. A compelling human rights story that gave me a clear opinion on Russia's government.
The benefit of an autobiography is that it gives a lot of juicy details about specific events, the downside however is that it sometimes misses a more general perspective that for example a journalist could have given. This becomes more apparent towards the end.
1. A really interesting story about starting a (I believe the first) foreign investment fund in Russia. I especially enjoyed this part and it thought me a lot about business in general.
2. A compelling human rights story that gave me a clear opinion on Russia's government.
The benefit of an autobiography is that it gives a lot of juicy details about specific events, the downside however is that it sometimes misses a more general perspective that for example a journalist could have given. This becomes more apparent towards the end.
One of the most intense non-fiction books I've ever read. To say it made me insanely angry is a gross understatement. Gripping story, very easy to read.
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Tremendous true story - first two thirds of the book are a captivating tale of a banker that used the dissolution of the USSR to grow a huge financial business, but the last third is a very different somewhat (understandably) repetitive story about the ramifications that are felt today.
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emotional
informative
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
Fascinating topic (the corruption of Russian oligarchs) and a level of violence I didn’t realize occurs regularly. The writing is on the melodramatic side and I think Browder could have been harder on himself in terms of his role in the situation. He comes across as sentimental instead of authentic.