A review by ktxx22
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

3.0

United States government you dirty scheming bastard. Snowden goes into detail on his life, how he got interested in computers, and how he went to work for the government. I found the early stuff really interesting and the ending equally so. Unfortunately, that middle 1/4 of the book was extremely technical and kind of felt like an info dump especially for someone who is basically a computer novice; in regards to programming. I think Snowden speaks candidly about his life and the reasoning behind him going public with what he found out about the mass surveillance the government was doing. That part of the book is worth the read if you are even moderately interested. This is not for everyone though. 3/5