Friday 7 October 2011

THEM: adventures with extremists - Jon Ronson

Did you know that there are lots of people who believe that the world is controlled by a group of leaders of commerce and government from across the world, all of whom are either Jews or giant green lizards......that's what many people think.

They think that this group meet regularly to plot to rule the world. Ronson spent a year with the believers in these plots and conspiracies, the people who truly believe that there is a secret world order, including members of the Ku Klux Klan.

He goes searching for evidence of the secret meeting places, especially in expensive five star hotels across the world. It took me a while to get into this book, but the writing style is easy and his descriptions of the nutters (although he never calls them that of course) is great, but to be honest it just didn't grab me, perhaps it would have made a better film or television programme?

Maybe some of it is true, I'm none the wiser!

September 2011