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Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website (2011)

by Daniel Domscheit-Berg(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

030795191X (ISBN13: 9780307951915)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Crown

review 1: I thought this book was absolutely fascinating. I really liked the insights the author had to offer. Do I believe this guy? Do I think he's lying? I'm skeptical, let's just say. The structure of the book was also very strange. He'd jump around years fairly frequently which made it occasionally hard to follow. I guess it helped that I listened to the audiobook. It probably is easier to listen to than to read.Either way, I really liked the book.
review 2: I am not a much of WikiLeaks fans nor hater, only a curious citizen. I found this book, literally, hidden among other management themed books. I found out later that this book is one the source for the up-coming movie on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, titled The Fifth Estate, played by my favorite ac... moretor, Benedict Cumberbatch ^_^ I often need to arrange my expectations when it comes on biography or autobiography, not all of them were actually good to read, particularly this one. I am not oblivious on the impacts and controversies of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange up to date, however, I am having difficulties on getting away from the impression that this book was written filled with anger by its writer and its sole purpose was actually just smear campaigning. Again, I need to highlight that I have no knowledge about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in particular. So, I might defend that my review was solely based on the way the book flowed. The substance of the book is primarily on the author's relationships, personally and professionally, with Assange. It was quite often I found myself confused on what was the author's aim or what had ticked them off. I mean the quarrels were like something bound to happen when you were working with someone else. You don't always agreeable with someone, yet, I sensed the book was pushing Assange's character as someone difficult, paranoid, irrational, unprofessional, and etc. Meanwhile, the author was exactly the opposite and the victim of his former friend and employer. I am sure that someone with high profile as Assange would have to come with his own eccentricity and egocentricity, so what?! This guy is responsible for all of that chaos on public information and made US on fire, surely there's must be work ethics that could be shared in the book, instead of mentioning : how much he likes to be immersed in his laptop.It's not like Assange is god or immortal or perfect but I just couldn't find that essential moment where their relationships have gone sour. Was it money? Was it authority? Was it technical? The way that the author repeatedly claimed he was not jealous, sort of made me curious. Most of the times, people making denials are usually admitting them. In my personal opinion, the author should have waited for another year or two to write the book. To calm down and just jolted down what was necessary or no. Because, the publishing time (2011) was not quite long after he quit in the end of 2010 which only made people, most probably WikiLeaks supporters, assumed that he had grudges on the founder. Well, I can see that he had hold grudges over the chats between the author and Assange when he was suspended. He wrote that Assange was dictator, but, I found it on his behalf that had started the fire. I think the book's just too premature as Assange and WikiLeaks are developing news so it got the hook. It would be a great book and inspiring for people to defend on free public information campaigns if only it was not too occupied in 'clarifying' the different characters. less

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