A review by alisonhori
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich

3.0

This book was a very fun read and Thad is really a bizarre but interesting person. This book is a non-fiction book telling the story of the theft of a quantity of moon rocks from NASA. While it is non-fiction, it is definitely not a journalistic, non-biased telling of the story...it is very much from Thad's kind of amoral POV which has pluses and minuses. It is fun to get inside his head though it is odd since it logic is so completely off-kilter. I would very much have liked to hear from other POV's as well especially the two women who were involved in the heist. I believe that they were both contributors to the book but I don't know how much of their POVs they wanted to share...but this book left me curious about they possibly could have been thinking. The other weird thing is that the book kind of contend that the heist was basically about impressing the girl and the cash was secondary but the time line of events doesn't add up...the plans were in effect long before the girl was in the picture...it is odd because the book keeps repeating Thad's contention that it was about the girl but the argument is made quite weakly...strange to have a book both supporting and undermining the same POV. Anyhow, this was a fun and interesting read and I liked it a lot.