A review by rpotyen
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler
2.0
It had an interesting collection of different cults however the way it was written was astonishingly frustrating. The amount of detail we got for certain points in the writing was widely varied. At one point there was a single sentence dedicated to the issues of violence towards women in one cult and then was quickly followed by an in depth description of how the cult got around building permits for the land they had purchased. I would argue that in a book discussing cults and the people who joined them the violence that the cult had perpetrated would be more important than a building permit.
The author had odd interjections of their own opinion as well. While most of the stories seemed to be factual every once in awhile the author would add a sentence describing why a person in the cult/the leader may have felt in that moment. At one point they even blamed a person's career choice as an actor as to why they would be susceptible to being in a cult? These interjections were just odd and irrelevant.
2 stars tho because the author had some pretty good burns of the cult leaders every once in awhile.
The author had odd interjections of their own opinion as well. While most of the stories seemed to be factual every once in awhile the author would add a sentence describing why a person in the cult/the leader may have felt in that moment. At one point they even blamed a person's career choice as an actor as to why they would be susceptible to being in a cult? These interjections were just odd and irrelevant.
2 stars tho because the author had some pretty good burns of the cult leaders every once in awhile.