Noah Lininger

Mostly foreign policy based

Revisado: 09-13-23

I was hoping for more about the Inflation Reduction Act, the 2022 midterms, or the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. There’s a good amount in here about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, that was interesting, but mostly it’s about failures in Afghanistan and successes in Ukraine. Those are interesting subjects, but I would be very interested in a book focused more on domestic achievements.

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Good story, but not what I expected

Revisado: 05-24-23

I think I expected an optimistic climate change epic like Ministry of the Future. There are glimpses of hope here but the scope is kind of small and the trajectory of the mammoth story made me kind of sad. I also thought the mom and her oldest daughter were pretty insufferable in how self absorbed and negligent they were towards the youngest daughter. This is a story about grief, and grief can make people act strangely, but they both felt too old to be neglecting their youngest family member like that.

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Important, but too visceral in some key moments

Revisado: 03-13-23

History is important to learn and to understand. In light of the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia it is good to go back and study the long history of contempt that Moscow elites have held for Ukrainian independence.

That being said I’m taking some points off because there were way too many graphic descriptions of murder and cannibalism. History isn’t dry or boring or strictly academic, I get it, but after ten minutes of anecdote after anecdote of families turning on each other for food I had to turn this off and go for a walk. For the most part the anecdotes complement statistics in this book, but if you’re an easily disturbed person like me, the limit is reached in the chapter describing starvation.

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Intense story, great narrator

Revisado: 01-29-23

This story is mostly funny and snarky but at one certain points becomes very heartbreaking and intense. The end was great.

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Interesting Book

Revisado: 05-12-22

Broken into three parts: the election, the January 6th riots, and the first year of the Biden administration (focused largely on the infrastructure bill)

Narrated by Kim's boss from Better Call Saul!

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Classic good vs evil

Revisado: 05-25-20

I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a novel this much. Stu Redman, Fran Goldsmith, Larry Underwood, Nick Andros, Randall Flagg, and so many other characters were so vivid and memorable. I loved the good characters and hated the evil ones.

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Lovable and hatable characters

Revisado: 03-14-20

Good character development, the story is about some very good people and some very bad people. I think it could have done without the last chapter, which ends on a very cynical note. Even though the story deals with pretty heavy subject matter the undertones of that last chapter seem much darker than the rest of the book.

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