A review by cubanpete
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

5.0

The US army doesn't really have any serious alternative than to be wonderful

I had seen the movie so I sort of knew what to expect but this was still a major shocker. I laughed out loud on a few occasions whilst reading it which doesn't happen to me very often. It blows my mind - both in a good and a bad way - that this is not fictional. Other than being gobsmacked at the capacity for lunacy within our military and secret services (I refuse to believe the US is alone in this) I also learned a valuable lesson. Which is that humour and pop culture sometimes are deliberately used to make unacceptable practices okay in the eyes of the society. And that is a serious point. Now for the less serious...my favourite part has to be the use of

an Avril Lavigne CD

by military intelligence in their work. I mean, what?