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Book Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats |
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Written by Steve
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 23:52 |
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I read Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists several years ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. (You can read my review here). While I meant to keep up with Ronson's work, he somehow got lost in the shuffle, so I didn't hear about The Men Who Stare at Goats until someone mentioned the movie on their Twitter feed (where I'm now following Ronson, so I'll catch the next one). About a week later I saw the first trailer and decided I definitely needed to pick this one up. Of course, since the only book store in our crappy little town is a Books-A-Million (motto: "If you actually want to read it, we ain't got it."), it took me longer than I'd have liked to track down a copy. With the movie almost out, the book should be a lot easier to find now, except perhaps at Books-A-Million (motto: "If it was relevant a year ago, we've just started stocking it."
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