Reply #8: I read it when it came out

[pam4water]

It was very good. I skip much of the opening of the book. When Klein used that poor tortured woman and a kind of microcosm of the shock doctrine. It did not work entirely as a microcosm of the effect of the "shock doctrine". I felt she spent too long on poor woman in, a book that had a lot to cover. Also it ground down the reader and the tone was too something... (I can't think of the work right now...) After I skipped ahead the tone shifted and I could stand read about the horrors of the shock doctrine.

The first time I heard about Milton Friedman was in Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. There is a lot of overlap in what the two books cover. Klein did a better job of connected the dots between Milton Friedman and Augusto Pinochet than Palast. And flush out the story greatly.

It's funny I heard the phrase -- "the brick" (Milton Friedman's economic plan in book form)-- referred to ominously a few movies, but I never know what it was until I read the Shock Doctrine.

Here is hoping they don't use the current economics shock to stuff and more "free market" reforms down our throats. I think Friedman is discredited enough so it wont happen.