I just finished UNBELIEVABLE by Katy Tur.

[madaboutharry]

There are several things I learned from this book. Here are just a few: First, Katy Tur seems like a very down to earth and charming woman who is very honest about her weaknesses and vulnerabilities. She also wrote wistfully that she gained so much weight during the campaign that she stopped looking at herself naked.

Second, the relationship between journalists on television is not always one of camaraderie, there is a darker side to it. The competition for air time is fierce and there is a lot of backbiting that no one feels good about.

Third, Donald Trump is a pig. A truly awful pig. He is a lazy ignoramus who told the world well in advance that he was going to be a horrible president. (Tur, of course, said this in a slightly more diplomatic way.) Pity those who didn't listen.

Fourth, Donald Trump is responsible for having made Katy Tur, along with other journalists, legitimately and genuinely fear for their safety and their lives.

Katy Tur's book is well worth your time.

[Lucinda]

1. It's in my queue to read after I finish Hillary's!

I loved the the first two sample chapters from Tur...looking forward to reading it.

[hedda_foil]

4. Where did you find the sample chapters?

[FakeNoose]

10. Amazon has the prologue and first chapter

Click on the link below and it takes you to her book listing.

https://smile.amazon.com/Unbelievable-Front-Row-Craziest-Campaign-American-ebook/dp/B01N6Z4GO7/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505529212&sr=1-1&keywords=katy+tur

Click on the book cover with "Look Inside" and shows you the first several pages of the book.

[hedda_foil]

14. Of course! Thanks for reminding me.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

6. Where do you get sample chapters from?

[FakeNoose]

11. Amazon has the Prologue and first chapter sampled

Link: https://smile.amazon.com/Unbelievable-Front-Row-Craziest-Campaign-American-ebook/dp/B01N6Z4GO7/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505529212&sr=1-1&keywords=katy+tur

Click on this link and it takes you to Kay's book listing. Click on the book where you see "Look Inside" and it shows you the first several pages of the book.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Looking forward to reading it.

Thanks for the review!

[yuiyoshida]

3. You can follow her on TWITTER as well!

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC

Link to tweet

[jayschool2013]

15. Futura!!

The best font ever. Just ask Wes Anderson.

Or should it be Fu-Tur-a?

[yuiyoshida]

16. Fu -Tu-ra

sounds like a classic Kaiju on the loose ready to face down Godzilla....

[alfredo]

5. Off to Amazon.

[DesertRat]

7. I have it on hold at the library

Looking forward to reading it. Thanks!

[NastyRiffraff]

18. So do I, but I may have to buy it

I'm #23 on the hold list. Montgomery County Libraries has one (1) copy among 22 libraries. It sounds like a must read.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Surely they will buy more copies?

As in at least one for each branch?

My local library (Santa Fe, NM) always orders additional copies based on demand. For instance, they already had about 10 copies of "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and have 10 more on order. Similar story with Hillary Clinton's current books. Five copies already at the library, five more on order. Sue Grafton's latest, 10 in stock, 10 more on order.

One really nice thing about the library here is that they are extremely responsive to requests for them to buy a book they don't already have. More than once I've put in the request, and the next thing I know it's been ordered and I'm on the hold list for it.

[NastyRiffraff]

23. I've put in a request

We'll see what happens. They should base it upon demand, like you said. I'll wait a couple of weeks before buying (I've already gone over budget on books!)

[calimary]

8. Haven't got her book yet, but she wrote a terrific article

about her campaign experiences for Marie Claire magazine. Amazing account! I've only been on the road covering a story for brief moments. My most prominent assignment was covering one of the first space shuttle landings at Edwards Air Force Base. A bunch of us were camped up there for several days at this little motel in California City. That was quite an adventure but a microscopic pittance compared to what Katy Tur went through.

And nobody I covered ever threatened or insinuated threats against me or tried to stir up an already rowdy and hostile crowd against me personally! The worst I got was when I very politely asked a grumpy old dude at the next table if he might please not smoke his cigar when our food was about to be served, at a restaurant where our whole extended crew of reporters, producers, and engineers was going to have dinner. He glared at me in the greatest umbrage and loudly replied "I will NOT!"

I returned to our table where about eight of us were seated. One of the guys asked how it went and I said the old cranky dude refused. And one of the other guys who was seated next to me turned toward where the grumpy old dude was seated and thundered "WELL, SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST ASSHOLES!" The whole restaurant heard it. The grumpy old dude and his dinner companions got up and left. So I guess that was one way to snuff out somebody else's stinky cigar.

This was, mind you, before laws were enacted prohibiting smoking in restaurants - which came as as a HUGE relief for someone like me, who loves to eat but has trouble doing so with cigar smoke wafting around near me.

[NightWatcher]

9. It's also available on Tunein Premium as an audiobook

I just added to my favorites and will check it out this next week.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. I have it on hold at my library.

2nd of 8 so far. Actually, the book is on order. But I'll get it soon enough.

I heard her this past week on "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, and was completely enthralled. Can hardly wait to read it.

[MontanaMama]

17. Thanks for the tip about her interview on

Fresh Air!! And, the reminder about that particular program in general. Listening to it online right now. She's very articulate and smart, clearly.

[fierywoman]

13. I hope you put this review on Amazon for her.

[Scurrilous]

20. K&R

[oberliner]

21. Does she talk about Keith O at all?

Or is it just about her time covering Trump?

[madaboutharry]

22. She writes briefly about Keith

Only that they were together when she was in her twenties and that he is a "kind and gentle person" until someone starts flinging bullshit. Also, that Kellyanne Conway made some ugly remark insinuating that Tur got her job because of Keith.

[kairos12]

24. Reading it now.

[Motley13]

25. Your post is perfect except for the insult to pigs

I really like Katy Tur, she flubs her words quite a bit, but she will get better. LOSER 45 was nasty to her & I admire her valor.

[madaboutharry]

26. Pig is my word.

She doesn't outright call him a pig, she describes piggish behavior. She does call him a lot of other names. And she says he really is orange. She writes he is the color of marmalade and his face looks like marmalade on toast. Lol!

[3catwoman3]

27. It has becme increasingly difficult to find...

...words sufficiently derogatory to adequately describe Trump without insulting the chosen species. I am down to various parasites like liver flukes and tapeworms, which, like Trump, have no redeeming qualities. While accurate enough, they are not quite as satisfying as a short, explosive sound like "pig." More's the pity.

Putz works pretty well.

[Motley13]

28. I settled on maggot, but feel I'm insulting them

the moron hates the word loser, he calls terrorists losers, not murderers, or what they are - terrorists, so I finally decided on LOSER 45

[Buns_of_Fire]

29. She was on Joy's show this morning.

Just from what I saw, it looks like "Unbelievable" will be my next download to the Kindle machine.

At least until "Maggot-Infested Pile of Human Offal: The Donald Trump Story" is published.