Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

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But Ronson is the kind of narrator who has the gift of making all these stories accessibly human, truly fascinating, and weirdly entertaining. Not a badly written book by any means, I just really couldn't force myself to care about the subject matter of a couple chapters. He relates the defensive arguments of Jonathan King, the disgraced pop impresario who abused dozens of young boys. While I enjoyed the first section of the book (with articles on artificial intelligence, indigo children, etc) more than the rest, it's a testament to Ronson's writing skills that he managed to pique my interest even with the pieces on economics.

It's very conversational, and you can hear the memories of the interviews in his voice: meeting Stanley Kubrick's family, the Insane Clown Posse, his re-hashing of the Frank story, the "right-to-die" movement advocates, the "Real Life Super Hero" movement, the Jesus Christians voluntarily donating kidneys to strangers . The story of Maf the dog is a hilarious and highly original peek into the life of a complex canine hero – he was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn’s other person affects. In diesem Buch sind viele Kolumnen von Jon Ronson gesammelt, die er im Guardian bereits veröffentlicht hat.because that is obviously something that should be included in any chapter concerning the anal rape of underage boys. I've been a fan of Ronson's written work since coming across Them some years ago, his style of writing always seems to bring the subject alive without indulging in any deep seated judgement.

This is a book for enquiring minds, but possibly its English-centric focus might make it a bit confusing for anyone who doesn't, for example, know who the coughing major is. I preferred his other works such as So You've Been Publicly Shamed and The Psychopath Test as they had an overarching idea or theme to them. He follows and interviews Richard Bandler (Neurolinguistic Programming guru), and Paul McKenna (hypnotherapist), who have teamed up together. There are a couple of cases in this book that he didn't even attempt to find apology for, and with good reason.Though not all the topics were easy to read about, it's one of the first books in a while that I wanted to continue, so I will definitely be checking out his other collections. His work includes the international bestsellers Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. It’s his third collection of such articles, and while the first two are more about himself, this one picks up the thread in his earlier work Them: Adventures with Extremists. Collected here from various sources including the Guardian and GQ America are the best of his adventures.