I don't like non fiction, and I don't really read a lot of it, until I read this book and became slightly obsessed with the way Krakauer writes. Obsessed meaning that I bought every book he's written for my Kindle. I have this thing about FLDS and LDS that just intrigues me, and I want to read about...
I don't like non fiction, and I don't really read a lot of it, until I read this book and became slightly obsessed with the way Krakauer writes. Obsessed meaning that I bought every book he's written for my Kindle. I have this thing about FLDS and LDS that just intrigues me, and I want to read about...
I read this expecting it to be another story of life in the Colorado FLDS, and it is that, but it's also much more. The heart of it is the story of Ron and Dan Lafferty (part of an unrelated fundamentalist Mormon cult) who murdered the young wife and infant daughter of their brother Allen because th...
There's nothing in this book that is untrue, per se. However, Krakauer has a particular story he wants to tell, and so drastically oversimplifies complex historical and cultural phenomena, and draws causal conclusions that are, at best, facile. There's a certain aspect of breathless exposé here that...
The phenomenal adherence, by the followers of the Latter Day Saints to a code of secrecy, and the profound strength of the endowment of G-d-like powers to “appointed” human prophets, makes one truly question the veracity of this group as a religious order rather than a cult. The backbone of the reli...
I read a lot of true crime books, and thus the religiously motivated murders of Brenda and Erica Lafferty were of interest.What I did not expect from this book was a detailed and interesting look at the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) and how the Fundamentalist L...
I remember the events that this book quite clearly. This was an appalling crime, and the fact that it was made in the name of religion quite sickening. Not for the timid, but very well written.For the longer review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/content_147370053252
This was what I grabbed from the hotel book-swap shelf when I ran out of vacation reading! I would have found it more interesting if I knew absolutely nothing about Mormons before reading it.
Wow. This book was so creepy and good. Krakauer is objective and fascinating in his attempts to understand religiously motivated violence by examining the 1984 murder of a woman and her one year old child by Mormon fundamentalists and the history leading up to and surrounding it. You should probably...
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