Elizabeth R. (esjro) - , reviewed on 7/16/2011 + 947 more book reviews

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Readers new to Jon Ronson may initially be taken aback by his writing style. Unlike a typical non-fiction book, his reads more like a narrative in which he bumbles about and somehow manages to score interviews with all sorts of people. In The Psychopath Test, he meets a charming convict who may or may not be a psychopath, the author of the checklist used to determine whether or not someone is a psychopath, and a Scientologist crusader against the psychiatric industry. Rather than blatantly taking a stand for or against the psychiatric industry, Ronson does what he did in "Them" by pointing out that extremists of any kind can be dangerous.

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