Hilm

DNF at page 66

DNF at 50% after reading reviews here and figured out the pay off for all these build up is not worth it.

3.5 stars, rounded up. Crisply written but doesn't tell me anything new (and another reviewer here has mentioned the “neutral” tone of the book does it disservice to the message). The gig workers profiled were quite interesting. I finished it in an afternoon.

I'm giving up at Chapter 7. Overall, it's quite interesting but for some reason (time period, perhaps?) I didn't find myself wanting to continue after having this book for months on my bedside.

Giving up at page 106, I wasn't engaged with the mystery—the death of an Iranian filmmaker. Maybe if I had been more familiar with Iran history a lot of the background info dump would have felt richer in texture, but otherwise it felt so heavy and the excerpts of the letters in every other chapters didn't manage to raise the intrigue for me.