My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir
Extraordinary ... Brown is an activist associated with the hacker group Anonymous, and a political prisoner recently denied asylum in Britain, all of which sounds a bit dreary until we hear tell of it through Brown’s unhinged self-regard ... Brown’s looping, musical sentences are flirtations, bending reason toward satire, hovering always on the fine edge between absurdity and profundity ... Deranged, hyperbolic and as true a work as I have read in a very long time.
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The book snapshots a pivotal moment in online activism, and pulls no punches ... Brown is a showman, a gifted writer in the tradition of William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson.
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[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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