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Finished reading The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Wants to read Blood Territory: The Death of Jimmy O'Connell
Reviewed Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Uncategorized · November 28, 2019
Catch and Kill
This is one of the more recent books that I have listened to on Audible. I knew a little bit about Harvey Weinstein and some of the crimes he had committed, but I never knew how deep this whole story went. Harvey’s behavior went on for years, with many people knowing about it. There were a lot of people who knew this was happening, and a lot of people who enabled his behavior because he was rich and powerful.
I recommend this book because there is so much more to this story than he did some bad things and lawyers and money kept it secret. There was a systematic effort to make individuals miserable if they dared speak out about what he had done. This was a premeditated, and often recycled plan to harass victims into accepting cash to keep them quiet.
This book also involves very powerful people playing to their best interests, and cold-war era type spies. Yes, spies. Like, check-social-media-to-find-out-where-your-are-to-follow-you-home type spies. The kind of spies that have pens with recording devices in them. The kind of spies that pretend to be informants, in order to glean information.
My estimation of the story when I first heard of it was that some rich guy paid a lot of victims and lawyers a lot of money so he could continue to be a predator. That is sinister, this was worse. This is a great listen, especially for anyone who still thinks that these victims were “asking for it”.
Finished reading Ultralearning: The Essential Guide To Mastering Hard Skills And Future-Proofing Your Career
Rated Anaximander: And the Birth of Science 6/10
The history and science of Anaximander is fascinating, but the book lost me with some of its attempts at broader conclusions towards the end. I am not convinced the role of religion (or lack thereof) is as fundamental to Anaximander’s revolution as the author (laboriously) lays out.