Lost at Sea : The Jon Ronson Mysteries (Hardcover)

from gtown

Just an incredibly interesting collection of articles from Jon Ronson on a wide ranging cast of stories and characters. The book is about 400 pages and I would have been happy with double that length. I think the only Much like his book Them, the articles often deal with people on the fringe, eit...

from EmScape

In this collection, mostly consisting of articles he wrote for The Guardian, journalist Jon Ronson investigates many things a lot of us have wondered about, as well as some things we never even thought to wonder about. A short list includes celebrity psychics, credit card offers, Juggalos, Stanle...

from AnnetteOC

Not everyone gets to interview a robot, retrace James Bond's steps in Goldfinger, and investigate a death on a Disney cruise. But we might get the impression that such things are ordinary in the glamorous life of Jon Ronson. The Guardian journalist known for The Men Who Stare at Goats, which late...

from figre

I was pleasantly surprised by this collection. My surprise was not a function of my expecting anything bad; rather, it was because I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that I was getting a collection of articles/essays by the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats. What I got was an incredi...

from msf59

Ronson is a British journalist. Each of these stories were featured in the Guardian. I had not heard of this immensely talented Brit but I do now. He has an uncanny ability to track down, investigate and report, the most fascinating stories out there. In the opener, he interviews the members of t...