3.0

I had to take a long break with about a quarter of the book left because a) I fell into a library holds all coming in at once sequence as inevitably you do and b) I got frustrated with Jeffrey Toobin as inevitably you do. He has a weird relationship to Patricia Hearst in that I think he thinks she's full of shit after a certain point in her ordeal where the trauma is no longer a ruling factor in her behavior which somehow invalidates both her trauma and any other experience she has as authentic. He's of the mind that she follows whatever course of action the situation best dictates. I think one of the lasting impression he wants to leave is that the violent crimes that she participated in were never fully held to a normal standard of justice because her presence--and her insistence that her presence was coerced which exonerated her of culpability--overshadowed the crimes committed, including the death of a bystander. Which: yeah, it's a good point. But I was also pretty fed up with the book as a whole by the time he made it, so that was less great.