Wednesday, December 28, 2011

THEM ADVENTURES WITH EXTREMISTS by Jon Ronson

Finished Sunday Xmas Day

This was kind of a weak effort, and I skimmed it from about the middle to the end. It's not nearly as good as THE PSYCHOPATH TEST which I thoroughly enjoyed.

"His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves."

A few of the subjects I followed up on Wikipedia.

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