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The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Author: Jon Ronson
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.Entrusted with defen...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743270601
ISBN-10: 0743270606
Publication Date: 4/4/2006
Pages: 272
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3.4 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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Cheese avatar reviewed The Men Who Stare at Goats on + 324 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book confused me. At first I thought it was a satirical look at the Government/Military and their secret programs. The author even tied the explanation behind the Waco debacle and the Heaven's Gate mass suicide into what was going on in the book. But the more I read the book the more I started to believe that the author wasn't trying to be funny, that he might actually be serious. I haven't seen the movie. I have been told by numerous people to avoid it, that it was horrible. I wasn't pleased with the book because I couldn't figure out what the authors stance on the whole thing was.
joan13 avatar reviewed The Men Who Stare at Goats on + 47 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Now I don't even know if I want to see the movie. The book was just okay. It started good, but became a rambling meandering government conspiracy documentary going from tangent to tangent, on concepts loosely tied together. Entertaining and strange, not anything mind-boggling. All in all, a bit of a let down. Book was disjointed. I hope the movie was better.
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buzzby avatar reviewed The Men Who Stare at Goats on + 6062 more book reviews
Hmmmm, There may have been more to "Swap a Goat" (PBS offshoot) than I thought. Kind of hard to follow at the beginning, I suppose all of the tangents would come together in the end. Hard to tell whether they were Republican or Democratic proposals, I think they would be untouchable under sequestration.


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