3.0

While the story of the actual kidnapping and slow conversion of Patty Hearst is fascinating, I don't think I care for Mr. Toobin's presentation, which was often a slog to get through. Interesting events are made to take a sideline to day-after-day banality which I think is done to make a point, but it being a boring point, this is not terribly useful. Hearst herself comes off as a feminist iconoclast and and terrible person, simultaneously, and her confederates more of a collection of clownish asshole murderers than sincere revolutionaries. Seems as though this would have been better as a collection of articles than a book.