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I'm listening to the audiobook. Interesting start and the plot is gripping but I'm ⅔ the way through and am fast forwarding through the tedious monologuing into the minutiae of the science and technology. It's been a while since I've read a Brown book and have always appreciated the injection of background and historical information but it's waaay too excessive in this book, to the point of being nauseating at times. Feels like I'm in a lecture hall for a course I'm not at all interested in.

By blurring the boundaries between the capturing of reality at the front and constructing a narrative at this very same site of conflict, the film becomes an extension of the war apparatus it pretends to examine. As such, it’s an extremely upsetting and dangerous film, especially when it’s presented in the context of film festivals as a way to engage with “the other side” of the story of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine."