[Brown's] style—bumptious, pithy, manic, and full of equal parts self-aggrandizement and self-deprecation—isn’t easy to sustain, or to tolerate, across four hundred pages. What comes off as charming over a few thousand words begins to grate over a long afternoon of reading ... The real trouble is that Brown has written one short, compelling, sharply observed book about prison, and then wrapped it in two half-formed volumes about his hacking and media exploits and his trials and prosecutions.
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