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Another person who reads many books!

Mostly depressing non-fiction in audiobook form, these days.

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Interesting up until...

3 stars

This starts as an interesting and thoughtful take of missing through hikers on the PCT. However, the author, despite expressing significant skepticism about a pseudoscientific douser, seems to uncritically endorse a psychic for the second half of the book. It makes me question her judgment and made the second half of the book much less enjoyable.

Joseph Cox: Dark Wire (Hardcover, 2024, PublicAffairs) 5 stars

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made …

Compelling but lacking anything critical

4 stars

Written like a thriller, Cox covers the rise and fall of Anom, an encrypted phone service run by the FBI.

I do wish that the book had engaged more with any of the actual legal and geopolitical consequences before the last chapter. I also wish that there was more clarity about where the various pieces of information came from, and how he reported on this - I never felt sure exactly what was coming from where.