This is a fascinating collection of stories that don’t always have any obvious connections to each other, other than the strangeness of life in this world. Each of these articles were previously published in The Guardian newspaper and the author Jon Ronson covers an impressively diverse series of topics from the Insane Clown Posse to unusual religious groups, a Christmas themed town to the economic disparity in this country, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes to assisted suicide. Not all of the topics are ones I would have chosen to read separately on my own and yet I was fascinated by and am glad that I read each one. I felt that each topic was covered seriously and respectfully no matter how quirky or sometimes even unpleasant it was and some of them made me uncomfortable but they all made me think or exposed me to a segment of society I was unaware of or just hadn’t previously paid attention to. He doesn’t always wrap up each story with an opinion or even a real conclusion, sometimes they just end, or at least his involvement in the story ends, which is sort of how life is. Real life doesn’t always end neatly or conveniently and sometimes there really isn’t any sense to be made from what happens, sometimes its just worthwhile to know that the story happened at all. This book made me thing and question and exposed me to people and experiences I never knew existed and for that alone it was very worth reading.