| BLOWOUT Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth Rachel Maddow New York: Crown Books, October 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-525-57547-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-525-57547-2 | 406pp. | HC/GSI | $30.00 | |
| Page 64: | "Aubrey and the other owners were already auctioning team nicknames: the Brons, the Bsion, the Energy, the Wind, the Marshalls (yes, "Marshalls" with two ls. Who knows)." |
| Punctuation: S/B "Who knows?)". |
| Page 178: | "Much of Europe signed on the dotted line, waving away concerns that it essentially amde the Continent beholden to Russia for its productivity as a region on earth." |
| Capitalization: S/B "as a region on Earth". (In fact, I would shorten this to just "as a region.") |
| Page 187: | "We have already begin to enhance our operational excellence in light of [the Deepwater Horizon] incident and we will continuously make adjustments as new learnings are revealed." |
| Belay the boilerplate. S/B "improve our performance" and "adapt to new developments". |
| Page 198: | "Observant marine and offshore drilling professionals called the voyage "a shambolic misadventure" and a "clown circus." Many, many new learnngs were revealed." |
| This is clearly tongue-in-cheek by Maddow. But I wonder whether she was thinking of Borat and "cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan." |
| Page 286: | "Turns out, ExxonMobil had used the time to just kept drilling." |
| Verb tense: S/B "to just keep drilling. |
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