Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Read this on a long drive from Essen to Berlin, and was really struck by how powerful and insidious the Stasi was. It basically blasted away any Ostalgie I could have been susceptible to - I just kept thinking of those lives destroyed in such covert ways. Ugh. 4 stars just cuz I found the author's presence often intrusive (this was written with a bit of gonzo first-person asides).