This is a pretty fair assessment of Catch and Kill. I had to remind myself that the resulting journalism was about the women and the victims, while this book was totally about Farrow, the investigation, and how it affected him; I hadn't heard him say it's definitely not about him, which rings disappointingly false.
Meanwhile, in my ever-failing quest to read something simply for the sake of entertainment (most recently, I picked up Jeff Vandermeer's Borne with the intent of reading some fluffy sci-fi, but instead got an abstract, thoughtful and sometimes-heartbreaking wasteland story), I'm reading Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the start of his Aubrey-Maturin series. Adventure!
It probably was my fault for not paying close attention to what it was about when it came out. I am quite sure I just assumed it was a story about the women. But even with it being about his chase of the story, it came across whiny. You know when someone is so into a particular field that they can't see through anything but the lens of that field? That's how the book was. Again, probably my fault for assuming it was something else. Also, Matt Lauer is disgusting, gross, a pig and many more names that I'll leave to the imagination. And the parts of the book that went after him were my favorite.
I also just didn't find it well written. Lol