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Crash Override
- How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
- Narrated by: Zoë Quinn
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Publisher's Summary
You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet - hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn - but they remain just that: Stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.
Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate - they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the internet a safer place for everyone.
In the years since #gamergate, Quinn has helped thousands of people with her advocacy and online-abuse crisis resource Crash Override Network. From locking down victims' personal accounts to working with tech companies and lawmakers to inform policy, she has firsthand knowledge about every angle of online abuse, what powerful institutions are (and aren't) doing about it, and how we can protect our digital spaces and selves.
Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story - as target and as activist - Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture, along with practical advice for keeping yourself and others safe online.
Critic Reviews
"A worthwhile read for anyone interested in taking action against the realities - and devastating effects - of extreme Internet trolling...an informative and inspiring book." (Kirkus Reviews)
"I tore through this book. Zoe Quinn doesn't just present a clear-eyed examination of the Internet's endemic sickness (though she does that beautifully), she contextualizes her personal nightmare within our current national one. It's a gripping read with historical merit." (Lindy West, author of Shrill)
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- PlayBoyMan
- 10-02-17
A waste of time...And I'm being kind about that.
I listened to this story twice, to make sure I didn't miss anything and went in with an open mind. And the second time I listened to this story (I got the audiobook) I was able to confirm that this is, in fact, a rehash of a series of events being told from a half-assed perspective of the narrator. For those wondering, Gamergate is about Ethics in Game Journalism, something that was uncovered after a lengthy blog post was posted about Quinn.
Quinn mainly had no real part in this, other than talking to her fellow friends who were game journalists who lacked this Journalistic integrity that is to this day so needed in the gaming industry. The threats and abuse Quinn dealt with could've easily been prevented by not talking out of her butt about the whole thing, taking a breakup better and being more careful to whom she talks to about her personal life.
I can't recommend this book, as its just a shameless, rehashed, re-telling of a story that really isn't relevant to the actual issues of online harassment that we all face (myself included), and comes off as a means to stay in the spotlight and make money.
14 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-17
Just what I wanted
At last we get Zoe Quinn's own story in full without any distractions, paired with very good and important advice on how to fight back online abuse, and how we can help heal the damage it has caused. Good stuff.
8 people found this helpful
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- Brian Peters
- 09-13-17
Engaging book about an important issue
This is a well written book covering a topic that should be of concern to everyone. Quinn has a good voice and narrates her own story well, using language that is informative while also being accessible. Even for someone like me, who was relatively familiar with the major events involved, there was a lot of new information and ideas, including practical advice for how to better secure your privacy online.
7 people found this helpful
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- dccern
- 09-09-17
Informative, down to earth, and inspiring
First off, this was one of the best print-to-audio translations I've listened to. Some books lose important details or have really confusing spots when recorded, but Ms. Quinn does an amazing job narrating the images, chapter structures, and other bits that are usually more clear in print.
The book is true to Quinn's "feelings and farts" persona exemplified in her games; her voice clearly conveys the humor, the frustration, and the compassion felt as she shares her experiences and lessons. She also takes care to elevate other voices along with her own, ensuring other perspectives are given their due; additional resources -- and encouragement -- are provided to readers who wish to explore further.
I walked away from this book with concrete actions I can take to help reduce online abuse, breadcrumbs to find more books and people to learn from, and inspiration to live more authentically.
7 people found this helpful
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- Giovanni Medrano
- 09-07-17
Heartbreaking and Hopeful
Whether you're like me and you thought you knew about the dark horror that is online harassment or if you only understand it as the vague spectre of "cyberbullying" that you heard the nightly news ran a story on once, this book will teach you more than you ever imagined there was to learn. Chronicling the tragic events of Gamergate, author and reader Zoë Quinn will tell you not only about the awful events that began one August day years ago, but also about ways to try to protect yourself and your loved ones from this terrifying phenomena. With a message of hope that we can all come together to create a world where something like this doesn't have to happen to anyone else, this is a book you would regret not picking up.
7 people found this helpful
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- TandR
- 09-10-17
Incredibly informative
I don't think that anyone could have turned around what was such a bad experience into a tool for good. This book goes into a lot of what Gamergate is and what it represents of the internet, but it also shows how the book could be such a force for good too. And for anyone worried about their own privacy online, this book shows you the best ways to protect yourself while not resorting to "just go offline" advice.
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- Ellen Shannon
- 09-10-17
Crash override
Interesting and engaging book presented well by the author. Alarming information about how users of the internet are vulnerable to personal attacks. Good suggestions on possible protections.
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- Ashley Maclaggan
- 09-07-17
A must read
Essential reading for everyone with even the faintest presence online and how to help protect yourself against the darker aspects of it. Everyone thinks it would never happen to them. I know I didn't. Years after the height of Gamergate, I'm still trying to clean the stalkers and harassment out of my life.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-03-17
Essential reading for understanding abuse
This book is essential if you wish to understand the spread of abuse and hatred on the internet, and what you can do to help. (And sometimes, what we can't or shouldn't do.) Is tough, and sometimes depressing, but not without hope.
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- David Larson
- 11-18-17
I Had No Idea
Wow. My tall white able-bodied cis-gendered mind has been blown. Not only did I learn a ton from this book about the world of online harassment, but the book was actually really funny along the way. I don't know how this woman stays so positive given all the things she's had to face, but thank Goddess she has. Awesome book! I haven't seen anyone this good at fighting evil trolls since I read the 3 Billy Goats Gruff as a kid.
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- K8-bit
- 07-01-18
Harrowing account
Wanted to hear this for some time. Excellent, if harrowing listen. I thought I knew Zoe's story, but it was worse than I realized. Really good book for people with interest in videogames, feminism, activism, and pushing back against online abuse and misogyny.
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- Sam Gregge
- 06-17-18
Great listen, highly recommended.
A heartfelt, well written and well read account of a series of god awful things. Providing a lot of insight not only about gamergate but many of the systems and apathy regarding those systems still in place and affecting the world today. A must read for anyone who spends any amount of time on the internet. It's also a story of hope to, perserverance and the type of strength that never looks like strength from the inside. Give it a go.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-25-21
An excellent account of Gamergate.
Zoe Quinn gives an excellent well balanced account of what happened during Gamergate. Offering mostly her story, well told, but also a larger picture. The later sections of the book on the broader dangers of online harassment and what we can do to combat it were well thought out and explained.
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In 1963 after the death of her mother, 17-year-old Susanna Moore leaves her home in Hawai’i with no money, no belongings, and no prospects. Her journey takes her from New York to Los Angeles where she becomes a model and meets Joan Didion and Audrey Hepburn. She works as a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and is given a screen test by Mike Nichols. But beneath Miss Aluminum's glittering fairy-tale surface lies the story of a girl’s insatiable hunger to learn and her anguished determination to understand the circumstances of her mother’s death.
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Great Story Told in a Distracting Granny Voice
- By Sweet Valley High on 04-19-20
By: Susanna Moore
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Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
- Women, Music, and Fame
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, in Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women fell in love with music, seized their ambitions, and changed pop culture.
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Love this book!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-21
By: Lisa Robinson
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Two and Two
- McSorley's, My Dad, and Me
- By: Rafe Bartholomew
- Narrated by: Rafe Bartholomew
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Story
McSorley's Old Ale House has been serving light and dark ale on the Bowery in New York City's East Village since 1854. Although a Supreme Court ruling forced them to allow women inside in the 1970s, many of the bar's quirks have been constant for over a century, down to the newspaper-covered walls, Houdini's handcuffs, the raw onions, and its sawdust-strewn floors. But it's not just the decorations and attitude that stayed the same; it's the people who work and drink there. Rafe Bartholomew's father has been a bartender there for 40 years.
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It's almost like I was there
- By Gina on 04-04-18
By: Rafe Bartholomew
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The Only Girl
- My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone
- By: Robin Green
- Narrated by: Robin Green
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices Rolling Stone magazine. Green thought she was interviewing for a clerical job like the other girls in the office, a "real job". Instead, she was hired as a journalist. Brutally honest and bold, Robin Green reveals what it was like to be the first woman granted entry into an iconic boys' club. Pulling back the curtain on Rolling Stone magazine in its prime, The Only Girl is a stunning tribute to a bygone era and a publication that defined a generation.
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Self Indulgence at its best
- By GCS18 on 08-31-18
By: Robin Green
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Play Big
- Lessons in Being Limitless from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL
- By: Jen Welter, Stephanie Krikorian
- Narrated by: Jen Welter
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jen Welter became a linebackers coach for the Arizona Cardinals in 2015, she was the first woman to ever break the glass sideline of the NFL. In Play Big, Welter reveals the grit that it took to be a trailblazer in the ultimate boys' club.
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Own Your Impact
- By Marisa Cali on 11-19-20
By: Jen Welter, and others
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We Are the Nerds
- The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
- By: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet". It's the third-most visited website in the US - and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is. We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving cold-case crimes and spurring tens of millions of dollars in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and landing Donald Trump in the White House.
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Blah
- By Jonasz on 12-04-22
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Miss Aluminum
- A Memoir
- By: Susanna Moore
- Narrated by: Susanna Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In 1963 after the death of her mother, 17-year-old Susanna Moore leaves her home in Hawai’i with no money, no belongings, and no prospects. Her journey takes her from New York to Los Angeles where she becomes a model and meets Joan Didion and Audrey Hepburn. She works as a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and is given a screen test by Mike Nichols. But beneath Miss Aluminum's glittering fairy-tale surface lies the story of a girl’s insatiable hunger to learn and her anguished determination to understand the circumstances of her mother’s death.
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Great Story Told in a Distracting Granny Voice
- By Sweet Valley High on 04-19-20
By: Susanna Moore
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Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
- Women, Music, and Fame
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, in Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women fell in love with music, seized their ambitions, and changed pop culture.
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Love this book!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-21
By: Lisa Robinson
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Two and Two
- McSorley's, My Dad, and Me
- By: Rafe Bartholomew
- Narrated by: Rafe Bartholomew
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
McSorley's Old Ale House has been serving light and dark ale on the Bowery in New York City's East Village since 1854. Although a Supreme Court ruling forced them to allow women inside in the 1970s, many of the bar's quirks have been constant for over a century, down to the newspaper-covered walls, Houdini's handcuffs, the raw onions, and its sawdust-strewn floors. But it's not just the decorations and attitude that stayed the same; it's the people who work and drink there. Rafe Bartholomew's father has been a bartender there for 40 years.
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It's almost like I was there
- By Gina on 04-04-18
By: Rafe Bartholomew
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The Only Girl
- My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone
- By: Robin Green
- Narrated by: Robin Green
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices Rolling Stone magazine. Green thought she was interviewing for a clerical job like the other girls in the office, a "real job". Instead, she was hired as a journalist. Brutally honest and bold, Robin Green reveals what it was like to be the first woman granted entry into an iconic boys' club. Pulling back the curtain on Rolling Stone magazine in its prime, The Only Girl is a stunning tribute to a bygone era and a publication that defined a generation.
-
-
Self Indulgence at its best
- By GCS18 on 08-31-18
By: Robin Green
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Play Big
- Lessons in Being Limitless from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL
- By: Jen Welter, Stephanie Krikorian
- Narrated by: Jen Welter
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
When Jen Welter became a linebackers coach for the Arizona Cardinals in 2015, she was the first woman to ever break the glass sideline of the NFL. In Play Big, Welter reveals the grit that it took to be a trailblazer in the ultimate boys' club.
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Own Your Impact
- By Marisa Cali on 11-19-20
By: Jen Welter, and others
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We Are the Nerds
- The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
- By: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet". It's the third-most visited website in the US - and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is. We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving cold-case crimes and spurring tens of millions of dollars in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and landing Donald Trump in the White House.
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Blah
- By Jonasz on 12-04-22
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns
- A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
- By: Dar Williams
- Narrated by: Dar Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters", Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and drunk in their bars. She has seen these communities struggle, but also seen them thrive in the face of postindustrial identity crises.
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Three or four stars.
- By D. Frrazier on 02-11-21
By: Dar Williams
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Hear's the Thing
- Lessons on Listening, Life, and Love
- By: Cody Alan
- Narrated by: Cody Alan, Keith Urban
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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For Cody Alan, one of country music’s most famous on-air radio and TV personalities, listening to other people has always been a crucial part of his role. It was by fostering his ability to hear others that he discovered the person he most needed to listen to was himself. Listening ultimately led him on a journey of self-discovery where he found the courage to come out as gay, the openness to question spiritually, and the strength to explore a new definition of parenting and family.
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Great and heartfelt story
- By Anonymous User on 11-11-21
By: Cody Alan
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Never Stop Walking
- A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
- By: Christina Rickardsson, Tara F. Chace - translator
- Narrated by: Siiri Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside São Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger brother were suddenly put up for adoption. When one door closed on the only life Christiana had ever known, a new one opened. As Christina Rickardsson, she’s raised by caring adoptive parents in Sweden, far from the despairing favelas of her childhood. Accomplished and outwardly “normal”, Christina is also filled with rage over what she’s lost....
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Needs an editor!
- By SunnySD on 06-25-18
By: Christina Rickardsson, and others