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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

3.9 AVERAGE

camaellia's review against another edition

3.75

informative medium-paced

bookbabe1129's review against another edition

3.75

challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

emugo's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective medium-paced

rainbowteachersaurus's review against another edition

5.0

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

chloe_v's review against another edition

4.0

funny informative sad medium-paced

elliottmoonbrook's review against another edition

informative reflective

leosaumure's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective medium-paced

montereads's review against another edition

3.0

funny informative reflective medium-paced

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This was an entertaining, breezy read, and made some interesting points, but ultimately I wanted it to be much more linguistically focused than it ended up being. This felt more like pop culture commentary vaguely focused around a language-related thesis. YMMV.

_crookshanks_'s review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective fast-paced

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As someone who’s always been fascinated by cults and now works as a counselor, I loved this book. Gave me new perspectives on what a cult means in modern day.

caitlinleib's review against another edition

2.25

informative slow-paced

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this is like if you published just a research proposal but without any of the analysis to support the proposal