Max

Probably should be more stars, but that was a little too dark and close to home for comfort.

Nice return to form after Cibola Burn's clunker storyline.

Kind of hagiographic at some points, but still really enjoyable.

Not sure how Ready Player One was that good and this was so incredibly schlocky.

Probably the most bafflingly written thing I have ever read. A lot of great information trapped in a horrible, unclear, drama-less style.

Good Lord.

Very funny, super dark and mildly unnerving ending. Winner.

Read this now. Then read it again.

This got so incredibly good at the end when it became a personal story. The rest of the time I felt like there was a much more complete book to be written by someone else. Probably only after Putin dies and records possibly become more available.

I made it to roughly page 50 before the urge to give up overpowered anything else. This is a shockingly bad book, especially given how necessary its warnings are. Every sentence is unnecessarily convoluted; every paragraph is more disjointed and baffling than the next. It's virtually impossible to learn anything because wading through the prose and the useless asides takes so much effort. This is a total waste. Put it aside and wait until someone else writes the book this should have been.