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false <![CDATA[The Men Who Stare at Goats]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg 1824 11 Just when you thought every possible conspiracy theory had been exhausted by The X-Files or The Da Vinci Code, along comes The Men Who Stare at Goats. The first line of the book is, "This is a true story." True or not, it is quite astonishing. Author Jon Ronson writes a column about family life for London's Guardian newspaper and has made several acclaimed documentaries. The Men Who Stare at Goats is his bizarre quest into "the most whacked-out corners of George W. Bush's War on Terror," as he puts it. Ronson is inspired when a man who claims to be a former U.S. military psychic spy tells the journalist he has been reactivated following the 9-11 attack. Ronson decides to investigate. His research leads him to the U.S. Army's strange forays into extra-sensory perception and telepathy, which apparently included efforts to kill barnyard animals with nothing more than thought. Ronson meets one ex-Army employee who claims to have killed a goat and his pet hamster by staring at them for prolonged periods of time. Like Ronson's original source, this man also says he has been reactivated for deployment to the Middle East. Ronson's finely written book strikes a perfect balance between curiosity, incredulity, and humor. His characters are each more bizarre than the last, and Ronson does a wonderful job of depicting the colorful quirks they reveal in their often-comical meetings. Through a charming guile, he manages to elicit many strange and amazing revelations. Ronson meets a general who is frustrated in his frequent attempts to walk through walls. One source says the U.S. military has deployed psychic assassins to the Middle East to hunt down Al Qaeda suspects. Entertaining and disturbing. --Alex Roslin 819599 book 2004 The Men Who Stare at Goats total:669|5:114|4:280|3:220|2:45|1:9| 669 2452 1204 175 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 3 4 false Wed Nov 12 07:48:52 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 19:34:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 5 2 false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 14:26:16 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 07:37:33 -0700 2008 real hard. Ironically, much of this stuff had its origins in the army's post-Vietnam funk, when esprit de corps was at its low...more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 5 2 false Sun Aug 10 03:55:14 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 04:03:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 0 0 false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:28:11 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:36:27 -0800 2009 Stop Smiling Review of Grant Heslov's film adaptation of Men Who Stare At Goats

Postwar: The Messenger and The Men Who
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Smugness marches on in The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney and directed by his bestie, actor Grant Heslov. While I...more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 3 0 false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 18:30:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 18:40:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 4 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:53:55 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 17:17:26 -0700 2009 One Strange Trip

This book came to me as a recommendation from a science teacher I work with and the premise of the book was too unique to pass up. In the late 1970's the post-Vietnam U.S. Military went through an identity crisis and started looking for different ways of achieving their ...more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 3 0 false Sat Nov 29 14:13:16 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 14:24:13 -0800 2008
I picked up this book because I saw it was George Clooney's next project (inspiration comes from the strangest places) and I saw the basic plot outline. Once I started reading it, I was intrigu...more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 4 0 false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 12:08:58 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 10:35:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 3 0 false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 17:39:20 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 21:25:33 -0800 2009
In my hometown in the 1940s, the Italians, from the ‘old-country,’ called it the “evil eye.”

Jon Ronson’s book, ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ is filled with the kind of bizarre conspiracy-theory stories ...more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 3 0 false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 09:37:36 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 10:00:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1824 0743270606 9780743270601 562 148 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959702m/1824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1824.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 4 1 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 20:08:46 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 20:20:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 833970 0330375482 9780330375481 33 7 The Men Who Stare at Goats 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178759343m/833970.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833970.The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats 2 1 false Thu May 24 09:12:35 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 06:27:07 -0700 2007
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Unawares, of course, at the time.

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