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Interesting book that interviews and spends time with several different types of conspiracy theorists. The book has been around over 20 years—this is a slightly updated edition. Interesting to see how things have changed and also stayed the same. Ronson finds some humorous and interesting people to listen to and he looks into their claims as best he can. I enjoyed it.

This book is 20 years old and still relevant. There will always be conspiracy theorists, and Ronson talked to several. (Lizard people? Really?) But what impressed me more was seeing the start of how propaganda has been used so effectively in the last 20 years to raise white supremacy and Islamic terrorism to global levels. I will admit that the changes in the last 20 years have frightened me to my core. We must resist. 4⭐️

Maybe not so crazy with what we know about Jeffrey Epstein now. 🤷🏻‍♀️

About the only non-tiring thing that happened yesterday was getting these books from Book Depository. A lovely surprise, as I‘m never quite sure when they‘ll arrive. I started Them last night, and I am really enjoying it!

I love the cover art on these editions, too!

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As the morning commute begins I'm going to delve into this treasure and hope I haven't got my hopes up too high....

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This book had really interesting and sometimes really disturbing content. I just need to stop listening to Ronson on audio because his reading style doesn‘t suit his writing style (for me). I feel mean saying that because I‘m sure he‘s a lovely man!

Knitting and audiobook time! #24in48 #notgoingtomake24butstillgoinganyway

After reading the eclectic lost at sea I found this book a tough ride at first. The first chapters were quite brutal in tone, but after keeping going with it there is plenty to like here. Jon always seems to be able to show the best and worst of his subjects and boy there are some subjects here! David Icke and KKK members are some of many people in this book. If you dig his style or if you like Louis Theroux then this is a book for you 😁

Very twisty book as the author spends time with a Muslim Extremist, Ruby Ridge survivors, at Waco, with Alex Jones, the Klan, Aryan Nation, the IRA, and a few others getting into their headspace & ideas. Some seem crazy, some crazy like a fox, but many share their own conspiracy theories with Ronson and he attempts to track down the secret room full of "rulers of the world" that quite a few of these groups fear. Read by the author on audio. ?

After a few chapters with various White Supremacist groups... this is the part I'm going to share about a cross "lighting". All were disturbing in their own way, but this odd moment made me laugh anyway, and I think it's worth remembering that even the groups you think of with fear are just humans, have the same goofy human shortcomings and conversations, plus if you can laugh about something it loses some of its intrinsic oppressiveness.

Well that can't go well....can it?

I'd say he'd find nothing, but the last time he tried to track down a secret group meeting once a year, he actually found a secret meeting there.

*Plus...don't some of these theories sound an awful lot like the conspiracies that just went around the last election cycle (15+ yrs after this was written). Leave free trade agreements, secret Clinton sex ring in the basement of a pizza place, etc

This book is so twisty and convoluted, and most bizarrely true. The author is traveling around with "extremists" of multiple beliefs and finding that although some of them are crazy, some of them are not completely wrong, as crazy as that sounds. I can't wait to see how he resolves all this, even just for himself & I'm finding myself very glad he took this journey pre 9/11, because I'm not sure that any journalist would have attempted it after.

That's the plan anyway! Hahaha, which I always fail miserably at. 😂

Lots of good stuff coming up, and lots of comics, so looks like good summer reading to me. 🤞

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Finish one audiobook, time to pick another....have to have something to listen to in my car. This will be my second Jon Ronson on audio...his are always interesting and unique and this one sounds like it will break even that mold as he travels with and hangs out with different extremists (Them) to see what they think....and if the world is controlled by a secret cabal can he actually find it and expose it?

This is a review of THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM by Jon Ronson, which isn't in the Litsy database yet. It's a short but scary read, since it was written before the 2016 US election. Ronson illuminates the influences of Alex Jones/Infowars, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort & Steve Bannon on the Republican candidacy. I learned a lot, but it was a painful read because he's fairly confident that Trump would not be elected.

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The Stacks: Part 2, the audiobook addition!
Just because they are on audiobook, doesn't mean they don't stack up. Www.audible.com, I love your sales even when they make me feel like I'm failing behind! #augustofpages