A review by marisbest2
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

4.0

This book says pretty much what you'd expect. Cults use language to push their message. MLMs are cults. Fitness groups can be cultish. Cults are complex.

The book goes back and forth and is interesting throughout but never really wows. Sometimes theres good personal anecdotes. Sometimes theres half baked anti-capitalist/anti-Protestantism arguments.

But overall worthwhile listen