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Bezig met laden... Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Crazinessdoor Jon Ronson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Brilliant. Collection of Ronson's hilarious pieces from The Guardian. ( ) I am in a Jon Ronson phase of reading at the moment. I love the way he seeks out and pursues the quirky and the offbeat, observing and commenting on real-life characters through the prism of his own psyche. The result is both witty and revealing. This collection of his 'Guardian' columns has some fascinating gems, including a long piece on the misdoings and subsequent trial of pop impresario Jonathan King and the obsessive collecting habits of film director Stanley Kubrick. Every Jon Ronson article, though, is ultimately about Jon Ronson,and there lies the real delight. A book of two halves - first part, a collection of short pieces and a 'diary'; the second, four longer features. When he's not writing about himself , Ronson is a wry observer of 'ordinary insanity' - there are excellent articles here about religious groups, Jonathan King, the Millionaire 'coughing major' and the obsessions of Stanley Kubrick. But reflections on family life are only mildly amusing and a little tiring after a while. Worth a selective read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious, thought-provoking and with an unerring eye for human frailty - not least his own. Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the Guardian, he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense - mainstream, domestic, ordinary insanity. Whether he finds himself promising his son that he will be at his side for ever, dressed in a Santa costume, or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster, he demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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