‘Chirpy, inquisitive, funny.’
—Craig Brown
‘The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . and you will, I guarantee, zip merrily through it.’
—The Observer
‘An entertaining exploration of madness.’
—The Sunday Times
‘Ronson has a fine journalist’s nose for sniffing out the most entertaining monsters to interview . . . chirpy, inquisitive, funny.’
—Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
‘Let me state for the record: at his best, Ronson is one of the finest comic writers working today. I began The Psychopath Test late at night, tired, dispirited and ill – then found myself laughing like the proverbial loon for page after page… By constructing his books so that they start off achingly funny then at a certain juncture become naggingly painful, he does indeed force us to think more deeply about the subject at hand.’
—Will Self, The Guardian (read full review)
“Because of Ronson’s relentless self-deprecation and goofy, British humor, it’s easy to tag along without fully realizing the rigor of his reporting, which is itself frenzied with compulsive questioning and obsessive research.”
—The Boston Globe
“A rollicking, page-turner of a book… no ordinary piece of investigative journalism… Ronson’s storytelling skills are strong enough to enliven even the necessary reflections that would be one yawn after another if entrusted to a lesser writer.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“…A book that manages to be as cheerily kooky as it is well-researched.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Engagingly irreverent…”
—New York Times
“[A] fascinating and humane book…”
—Washington Post Book World
“…Both terrifying and hilarious.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
Will Self in The Guardian
Carolyn Kellogg in the Los Angeles Times
Meredith Maran in the San Francisco Chronicle
Alice Gregory in the Boston Globe
Janet Maslin in the New York Times
Andrew Mueller in New Humanist
Peter Shawn Taylor in Maceans
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