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Book Reviews of Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Lights Out A Cyberattack A Nation Unprepared Surviving the Aftermath
Author: Ted Koppel
ISBN-13: 9780553419986
ISBN-10: 0553419986
Publication Date: 10/18/2016
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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2.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Broadway Books
Book Type: Paperback
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hmills96 avatar reviewed Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath on + 9 more book reviews
Every book sounds good on late night talk shows. It's the host's job to provide enough witty banter to make the book sound exciting and accessible to everyone. There's a reason it's called "The Colbert Bump."

However, I quickly learned that Lights Out was not written for me. It's probably extremely well-researched, informative--even interesting. I just couldn't get into it. It just went over my head from the very beginning. You really need to have a solid foundation in military structures and acronyms to get more than 20 pages in. After that you start to lose the thread quickly. I had zero idea of what he was talking about.

I'll put this on my shelf, and I wouldn't be surprised to see my husband pick it up eventually. He's way more into military nonfiction than I am, and I know he was interested in Koppel's Colbert interview too. I'm disappointed that I couldn't get further into this, it sounded like an interesting (albeit terrifying) theory. (