Blood Sacrifice, Amazing piece of journalism on the Jesus Christians, who were trying to illegally donate kidneys to strangers in 2002/2003.

He goes to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams, asks Insane Clown Posse (who are possibly America’s nastiest rappers) whether it’s true they’ve actually been evangelical Christians all along and rummages through the extensive archives of Stanley Kubrick. This kind of material fascinates me, and this book scratched that itch in the back of my brain for just learning about people.The story of Maf the dog is a hilarious and highly original peek into the life of a complex canine hero – he was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn’s other person affects. The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones Jon follows a group of real-life superheroes as they try and fight crime on the streets of America. You can argue that's what all of Ronson's books are about, but in this case, it stops being funny and starts being depressing. It's a soft voice, and Ronson exerts a gust of energy into each utterance before the phrase or sentence softens at the tail, resulting in oddly-placed emphases.

Purportedly, participants on Alpha regularly speak in tongues--Chinese, other foreign languages they've never spoken before, due the power of the Holy Spirit entering them. It was a great book for a busy time in my life where I could only give 20 or so minutes a day to leisure reading. A couple of the pieces could have used more information, one could have been cut in half, but on the whole a very enjoyable, informative read and worthy of your time. It’s his third collection of such articles, and while the first two are more about himself, this one picks up the thread in his earlier work Them: Adventures with Extremists.So if you've been following Ronson in print, you might be disappointed that there is nothing new here. Collected here from various sources including the Guardian and GQ America are the best of his adventures. Perhaps I went into the book expecting too much, and failed to appreciate the small stories that fill the pages.

In diesem Buch sind viele Kolumnen von Jon Ronson gesammelt, die er im Guardian bereits veröffentlicht hat. As clubland decadence turned to darkness, its self-publicised king, Michael Alig, committed one of the most notorious crimes of New York’s recent history – the violent murder of Angel Melendez. Ronson brilliantly investigates the way that those least able to carry debt, are deluged with offers to borrow money. Collected from various sources (including the Guardian and GQ ) Lost at Sea features the very best of his adventures. It's the same concept, and even has one or two character crossovers, but is a lot more in depth and better written - Ronson's penchant for simple present tense really grates (in my view) and makes it read like the witterings of a madman more often than not.These stories range from an investigative profile of an assisted suicide practitioner to coverage of a pop star’s paedophilia trial.

One of the stories involves a man who killed himself because he got in way over his head with credit card debt; another story involves an inventor who murdered his whole family after his fortune evaporated. Send them to my home, mail them, attach them to carrier pigeons, I don't care how you do it, but give me more of these books. There are a couple of cases in this book that he didn't even attempt to find apology for, and with good reason. Published two years before the financial crisis, this investigation (obviously couched in the most accessible and human terms possible) of subprime lending and credit culture was extremely perspicacious.Ronson then presents the Alpha Course leader Nicky Gumbel's mention of the Book of Joel as a "message from God" (the chapter title) because Ronson's own son is named Joel, but he does not attempt to point out that he was signed up for the course ahead of time, under his own name, and that his family members' names can be easily discovered online. But Ronson blithely observes: "Frantz talks a lot about respect and the opposite of respect--humiliation. King's friends are interviewed, and are used as the conduit to read the victim statements, so that we can have the full force of things like: "Deniz reads the statement with mock, burlesque horror. As he covers real people who have been affected, you wonder what kind of world we live in where openly preying on "subprime" people is an acceptable way to earn a living.