Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

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I love looking in on people, and this book is just full of it. And in almost short story format too, no less! It's a delight to be given titbits of people, and delve into small snapshots, especially when it's on the wilder side. This book covers so many facets and people from all walks of life, it's hard to know where to begin. I found all of them entrancing. We pull into the port. This is where Mike and Ann came on 25 March after receiving a call from Disney executive Jim Orie to say Rebecca was missing. They were here in time to see the passengers disembark.

Have You Ever Stood Next to an Elephant My Friend? Jon interviews the Insane Clown Posse. Hilarity ensues. Completely mad. Jon Ronson’s 2012 book “Lost at Sea” looks at the many weird cases he has reported on. There are loads. Over the years Ronson has covered many memorable stories and scandals. That ship absolutely seethes with rumours,” Melissa says. “Yes. She was in a relationship, and there were problems, and it was upsetting her. It was a very, very intense relationship. It was great and then it was awful. They were both fiery, passionate personalities.” They shook their heads. “We would have liked to have asked more, but by the time we’d flown over we were jet-lagged,” Ann said. “We hadn’t slept since the Tuesday. We flew out on the Friday. We hadn’t eaten…” Doesn’t Everyone Have a Solar? An investigation into artificial intelligence in which Jon ends up interviewing several robots. Surprisingly moving - he even managed to humanise this topic.Part Five: 'I know it's bitter. Just keep drinking. Put your finger over your nose and chugalug it all down.' — Stepping Over the Line Think of where those cruise workers are from,” he said. “They’re low paid, from third-world countries, on those ships for nine months at a time. The sexual crime rate is 50% higher than in the average American city.”

I was thrilled beyond belief to hear he had a new book coming out. Ronson's writing style is forever readable, even when it's on topics I don't care to read. This book is a compilation of short pieces divided by loosely defined categories. The pieces range from the ridiculous to the infuriating. Is She For Real? The “psychic” Sylvia Browne sounded like a real bitch. Jon went on a Mediterranean cruise with her.

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The New York Times-bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances. On Wednesday a very elegant man called Hugh delivers the gleaming silver Aston Martin to my house. 'Wow!' I say, politely. But I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.

Then he meets up with Robbie Williams to attend a UFO Abductee convention. Seriously, you couldn't make this stuff up. In this short journalistic story, Ronson interviews the Insane Clown Posse about their recent claim that, for the last 20 years, they have been promoting Christianity through their music. And yes, it is just as ridiculous as you might imagine. My jaw dropped while reading this and stayed open the entire time. I made my friends read it. I brought it to work to share with co-workers (and successfully avoided HR). I giggled on my dry morning commute and will be forever bringing up anecdotes from this book (alongside other Jon Ronson collections - the Psychopath test and Them are others which I would strongly recommend. I spend my spare moments narrowing my eyes at colleagues and weighing up their points on the Psycopath test at least once a week, and you should too, it's a brilliant past time). This is a collection of journalism by Jon Ronson, published in various places and over a period of around 20 years. My plan was to read a chapter at a time, interspersing them with other books, but I ended up devouring it in one go over a couple of days - it was just so addictive.

Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including The Guardian and GQ America) are the best of his adventures. Always intrigued by our ability to believe the unbelievable, Jon meets the man preparing to welcome the aliens to Earth, the woman trying to build a fully conscious robotic replica of the love of her life and the Deal or No Deal contestants with a foolproof system to beat the Banker. There’s a man in Ireland had a 15-year-old daughter,” Carver said. “One cruise served her eight drinks in an hour. She went to the balcony and threw up and went overboard. She was gone.” Have you any idea how many people are lost at sea on cruise ships> No? 171 since 2000 Here Ronson tries to get to the bottom of one of these losses. I found this piece more irritating than gripping, but was intrigued by the subject - one that nobody talks about. Part Three: 'Their eyes met and exchanged a flurry of masculine/feminine master/slave signals.' — High-Flying Lives The Hunger Games. Jon investigates the world of competitive eating in the US. Interesting but overall pretty depressing.