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A review by joppen
Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Youngest and Most Daring Con Man in the History of Fun and Profit! by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
2.0
One of the few cases of a movie being better than the book.
The book was fine though, I was genuinely interested in all the details of how Frank pulled off his schemes, enough to willfully ignore the consistent sexism throughout the book.
I was extremely frustrated with the ending, though. Like it ends on a cliffhanger? For no reason? And then there’s immediately an afterword written in the third person briefly detailing what happened to him next. That’s like the part I was most excited to read about from his perspective!!
ALSO there’s a q&a in the back of the book that only paints him as a more horrible person? Like he talks about how the US prison system should be less lenient and also literally says that the TSA should profile people to prevent plane hijackings. What an asshole.
The book was fine though, I was genuinely interested in all the details of how Frank pulled off his schemes, enough to willfully ignore the consistent sexism throughout the book.
I was extremely frustrated with the ending, though. Like it ends on a cliffhanger? For no reason? And then there’s immediately an afterword written in the third person briefly detailing what happened to him next. That’s like the part I was most excited to read about from his perspective!!
ALSO there’s a q&a in the back of the book that only paints him as a more horrible person? Like he talks about how the US prison system should be less lenient and also literally says that the TSA should profile people to prevent plane hijackings. What an asshole.