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kvothesduet's review against another edition
3.0
Well worth reading for the content, but occasional sentence fragments and style issues make it seem like this book was rushed onto the shelves.
fionak's review against another edition
3.0
If I had finished reading this in December when I first started, it would have been far more interesting. But we know all this information now and, since Harding's prose is functional but unlovely, I kindly suggest wasting your time elsewhere.
blanktarget's review against another edition
3.0
It's really interesting and really boring all at once. I wish it was written with more of a narrative.
siria's review against another edition
4.0
Guardian journalist Luke Harding's book is an in-depth look at the Trump family, their dealings with Russia before and during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the extent to which the Russian government and major financial institutions like Deutsche Bank are involved in worldwide financial corruption and money laundering. Harding does an excellent job at taking the disjointed, murky, and often financially complex pieces of information about what happened and shaping a coherent narrative from them. Coherent, and damning, and likely just the tip of the iceberg. It's ever more amazing to me just how viciously the American electorate cut off its own nose in order to spite its face last year—and to think that maybe a century from now, some poor history graduate student will likely be writing a footnote citing video of an American president soliciting a golden shower from Russian prostitutes as part of a dissertation on a presidency that will surely go down in infamy.
irinagoldberg1's review against another edition
3.0
This book was all over the place and difficult to follow. Also, since I've read many other books on this topic and this book doesn't add much new information. Finally, it's 2023, and Donald Trump is free and planning to run for president again, so reading this book was just so depressing. It reads like a list of crazy conspiracy theories. Even if everything in it is true, does it even matter if Trump is never punished?
March 30, 2023 update: so Trump has been indicted! Maybe I should increase my rating...
March 30, 2023 update: so Trump has been indicted! Maybe I should increase my rating...
oceanwader's review against another edition
5.0
Thorough investigative reporting by a journalist with Russian expertise. Cannot imagine that Fire & Fury by Michael Wolff, noted by many readers as sensationalist, can surpass this. (It's on the To-Read list.) The specificity and sourcing is exceptional. Highly recommend.
whizalen's review against another edition
5.0
I read this extremely quickly, in about 2-3 days total. A complete page turner if you're into this kind of book. I've been following this closely and started following the Trump, Inc. podcast so a lot of the characters and ties weren't new to me.
I've spent a fair few hours looking into a host of conspiracy theories, and we are living in one right now. And it's nice that mainstream investigative journalists are taking this seriously now, rather than in 2016. If you want all the ties nicely laid out between Trump et al and Russia, read this book. Follow that Trump, Inc. podcast.
Fuck this guy and the treasonous Russian Horse he's unleashed inside our government.
I've spent a fair few hours looking into a host of conspiracy theories, and we are living in one right now. And it's nice that mainstream investigative journalists are taking this seriously now, rather than in 2016. If you want all the ties nicely laid out between Trump et al and Russia, read this book. Follow that Trump, Inc. podcast.
Fuck this guy and the treasonous Russian Horse he's unleashed inside our government.
tschmitty's review against another edition
3.0
I have been following this, so not a lot of this is new to me, but it is beneficial to those who need to be informed. Trump is a disaster. Russia helped him get elected. I hope we as a country see a resolution one day. I miss sleep.
brianlokker's review against another edition
5.0
This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the Trump-Russia scandal. Harding does a masterful job of laying out the myriad connections between Trump and his team and the Russian government and financial interests. If there is any truth to the adage that "where there's smoke, there's fire," in this case there's a blazing inferno.