4.05k reviews for:

Under the Banner of Heaven

Jon Krakauer

3.95 AVERAGE

leothetiger1313's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

mollybyrne's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

sissen's review against another edition

3.0

dark informative sad tense

allaboutfrodo's review against another edition

5.0

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Horrifying and mesmerizing. John Krakauer writes the best nonfiction that reads like fiction. Had a couple of Mormons drop by the book discussion.

awoods3's review against another edition

4.25

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

hannahj_brown's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

emcole77's review against another edition

3.0

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creepy!

robwcote's review against another edition

4.0

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Jesus, what a whacky religion Mormonism is. Shocking that it is growing, shocking that it ever managed to spread in the first place, and shocking that there are lunatics out there for whom vanilla Mormonism is just not enough.

Great book looking at all this stuff. You would not believe what Mormons got and get away with.

radummer's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative medium-paced

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I felt it was more of a “Mormon: The History and The Mystery” than a typical true crime book. Very interesting listen. Some very concerning points that made me, an Evangelical Christian, uncomfortable, but still interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death

Moderate: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault

if you are sensitive to the death of children, skip through the latter half of Chapter 16 when the men go into the apartment. You don’t need to read/listen to the rest. Just know they were killed.

corgigirl's review against another edition

4.0

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This is my 2nd Krakauer book and although I found the material fascinating, the layout was choppy and disorienting. If you enjoy this book, I recommend The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner - a memoir about her experience growing up in a polygamist Mormon colony as the thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two children.