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Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler
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informative
medium-paced
2.0
Oof I’m disappointed.
As someone who listed to the podcast Cults that this book is based on, this book reads just like the podcast episodes that cover each of these cults. Would not surprise me if they just took the transcripts, cleaned them up, and sent to the publisher.
Beyond that, all of the cults mentioned here are some of the most famous cults that probably everyone already knows about. With how many cults were covered in the podcast, I wish a few more lesser known ones were included here.
Additionally, again as someone who listened to the podcast it’s hard to fathom why the podcast hosts weren’t included in the audiobook narration cast. I found myself wishing Greg and Vanessa were the ones sharing everything as the book was basically just a large podcast transcript.
Sorry to my true crime book club that had to read this for our October 2022 pick.
As someone who listed to the podcast Cults that this book is based on, this book reads just like the podcast episodes that cover each of these cults. Would not surprise me if they just took the transcripts, cleaned them up, and sent to the publisher.
Beyond that, all of the cults mentioned here are some of the most famous cults that probably everyone already knows about. With how many cults were covered in the podcast, I wish a few more lesser known ones were included here.
Additionally, again as someone who listened to the podcast it’s hard to fathom why the podcast hosts weren’t included in the audiobook narration cast. I found myself wishing Greg and Vanessa were the ones sharing everything as the book was basically just a large podcast transcript.
Sorry to my true crime book club that had to read this for our October 2022 pick.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis