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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting read alright. I was left with an overwhelming sense of gratitude that I do not live in America. I don't know if the people in this book were &quot;weird&quot; per se...deluded, sad, broken, sick maybe but weird I dunno. Weird to me is just slightly skewed, eccentric or indivi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52124374">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is lots of fun...Louis Theroux meets lots of very odd people and it could be very snide and mocking but it just isn't, because he appears to be really genuinely interested in them and in what makes them see the world as they do. Even though some of these people have totally vile beliefs -the ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9969021">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a pretty interesting book, in which Theroux follows up with weird people he profiled for a BBC documentary series (Weird Weekends: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux%27s_Weird_Weekends" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux%27s_Weird_Weekends">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Thero...</a>). He does provide enough background information on his subjects that you aren't missing anything if you haven't seen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13841731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Louis is one of my favourite documentary stars, I have watched all his shows and met him when I bought this very book.<br/><br/>If you've seen the shows this book offers and excellent re-cap on some of the stars and throws some surprises along the way.<br/><br/>Well written]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit that I have never really watched any of Louis Theroux's programmes but even still I enjoyed following him on his journey across America looking up a number of old subjects from his documentaries of the last 10 years.<br/><br/>And it just that, the feeling of accompanying him on the jo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24896279">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly enjoyable. I have been a fan of Theroux's since way back in the TV Nation days. I also watched Weird Weekends--where the genesis for these essays comes from. Louis goes back to find what has happened to some of the fringe, subculture dwelling people he met on the show and writes about how the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13215764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable enough book. Unusually, I ultimately preferred the TV series (call me lazy). Interesting enough read about American sub-cultures though. Good to pick up and maybe read a chapter at a time before bed. Entertaining if slightly disturbing. <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Louis Theroux starts this book off with a disclaimer about how he doesn't want it to be another tour of &quot;weird America.&quot; I'm no connoisseur of the genre, but it seems to me like a pretty good description of this book. Theroux tours the country (mostly the west) revisiting people that he ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21919843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures]]>
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    <![CDATA[For ten years, Louis Theroux has been making programs about off-beat characters on the fringes of U.S. society. Now, he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them. Along the way, Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people, and considers whether hes learned anything about himself in the course of ten years working with them. Has he manipulated the people hes interviewed, or have they manipulated him? From his Las Vegas base, Louis revisits the assorted dreamers and outlaws who have been his TV feeding ground. Attempting to understand a little about himself and the workings of his own mind, Louis considers questions such as: What is the difference between pathology and normal weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird, or to be yourself? And do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had seen the series on TV so I felt like I was reviewing it as he ultimately had to retell soem of the first encounters in orer to explain the follow-up.<br/>It was a good effort but I enjoy watching him engage with people more than reading about it.]]></body>
    
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