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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by John Bolton
Here's a title of a book based on Hamilton Broadway song "The room where it happened". I wanted to know if John Bolton makes a reference to Hamilton the musical and he does.
I give this book a low rating mainly because it was at least for me very hard to read. Here were my problems:
1. The narrative structure is not exactly chronological. John Bolton starts telling his story right before he became the national security adviser. Then the memoir breaks down to individual international problems he was involved in. A lot of the issues were going on simultaneously, but these issues were sections off into separate chapters. I can understand that this was done to focused on the issue at hand, but it was hard to follow the order of events as a whole in his tenure. A narrative like this to me is hard to see Mr. Bolton's progression of frustration in his job.
2. The language was hard to get into. John interjects a lot of side comments and has a whole lot of run on sentences. He also has a lot of incomplete sentences. It's written in a way that he is talking to his audience. Unfortunately, this is a book and I did not always get the nuances.
3. Poorly written and organization. Did anyone else see typos as well? To me this book was rushed and you can tell.
4. A bit too repetitive, even if Trump repeated himself all the time.
Mr. Bolton explains some changes he had to make in terms of paraphrasing and quotes, but I don't think it would have helped with his writing.
I went into this book knowing that this man had an ego and an ego to defend against Trump. This book is a memoir so the view points will be bias, but I took his voice to be honest. I took his concerns to be genuine. Although, I personally do not agree with his point of view on a lot of the issues at least he is principled. That already says a lot compare to Trump.
I give this book a low rating mainly because it was at least for me very hard to read. Here were my problems:
1. The narrative structure is not exactly chronological. John Bolton starts telling his story right before he became the national security adviser. Then the memoir breaks down to individual international problems he was involved in. A lot of the issues were going on simultaneously, but these issues were sections off into separate chapters. I can understand that this was done to focused on the issue at hand, but it was hard to follow the order of events as a whole in his tenure. A narrative like this to me is hard to see Mr. Bolton's progression of frustration in his job.
2. The language was hard to get into. John interjects a lot of side comments and has a whole lot of run on sentences. He also has a lot of incomplete sentences. It's written in a way that he is talking to his audience. Unfortunately, this is a book and I did not always get the nuances.
3. Poorly written and organization. Did anyone else see typos as well? To me this book was rushed and you can tell.
4. A bit too repetitive, even if Trump repeated himself all the time.
Mr. Bolton explains some changes he had to make in terms of paraphrasing and quotes, but I don't think it would have helped with his writing.
I went into this book knowing that this man had an ego and an ego to defend against Trump. This book is a memoir so the view points will be bias, but I took his voice to be honest. I took his concerns to be genuine. Although, I personally do not agree with his point of view on a lot of the issues at least he is principled. That already says a lot compare to Trump.