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Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness

by Jon Ronson - £9.99  Pan Macmillan (2006)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780330448321 | ISBN 10: 0330448323

Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and men who belive 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 rational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunancy 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 hut in Kidderminster, he demonsrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence.
 
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.

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