men who stare at goats by Jon Ronson (who’s name has three ‘on’ s?!?)
I saw this trailer for a film coming out soon:
and it looked so good that I thought I would pick up the book since I had seen it in Biblocafe (the title had kind of stuck in my head).
Well – I’m not going into it too much but all I would say is don’t. The book is rubbish and the key thing about the film seems to be ‘inspired by…’ it is a true story – the US military have messed around with psychic powers, mind bending experiments, subliminal messages, etc. but the book really doesn’t present the evidence or investigation in a very easy to follow narrative structure – rather a loosely connected series of stories that jump back and forth in time and it isn’t always clear who is involved. Don’t read the book but I still think the movie has promise.
