The Immersion Library

Responsibly sensational!

What? In this information age, is there a nastier oxymoron? Ronson’s accounts of fantastic experiences with conspiracy-driven extremists depict scenes on the verge of fiction – flirting with the collapse of readers’ trust in his story-telling.

However, Ronson’s calm demeanor, nonchalant approach and journalistic integrity lead the reader into a reality as skewed upon experience as it was upon rumor. Undoubtedly, the reader will laugh. The reader will also stare wide-eyed at sequences of words that denounce their best predictions at what would happen next.

And to finish this book, which succeeds in its mission NOT to make any points or prove any theory, is to surely see extremism as an illness of the human psyche – manifested on both sides of the spectrum – centered on displaced paranoia and insecurities; not factual reality.

That’s what you thought before? So you think – have a goodread.