Category: books

A super fun read and made me feel like I understand more about crypto, but I’m not entirely sure that’s a fair take away.

A lot of characters felt fake and it is hilarious that these are real, not fake people. Sometimes the best fiction is reality. The drama is very very real and the author, Laura Shin, did such a great job in keeping the pace fun and dynamic through a complicated narrative.

Listening to the book with all the 0.0000000000001 read out loud was moderately annoying and amusing at the same time.

Oh I deeply loved this.

the ending was dissatisfying in the short term, but a very pleasant aftertaste.

also a multi-POV book that I can easily see becoming a show.

read for the work book club – speed listened because i forgot about it until like the Friday and book club is tomorrow, Tuesday.

it was… fine. i could see the ending telegraphed from chapter 3, and the characters all seemed very very plain and too basic.

the only thing this made me realize is that if you do want to write a book with a higher probability of making it into a TV show 2 things help:

1. Writing it from multiple first person POV (think wheel of time, game of thrones). Multiple POVS = easier to convert to a script that narrates events.
2. Ideally set somewhere where non American accents exist.

I liked it but I wouldn’t read it again. Interesting to see what a complicated Heist looks like in detail.