WILL STORR is a journalist who has dressed up as a woman to impress the transsexual leader of radical pro-suicide campaigners, trained in jungle warfare with the British army, and has been arrested and then deported under armed guard from Los Angeles. He is the author of Will Storr vs. The Supernatural and has written for many publications and won many awards.
"The subtle brilliance of "The Unpersuadables" is Mr. Storr's style
of letting his subjects hang themselves with their own words."
Michael Shermer, "The Wall Street Journal"
"A tour de force . . . A searching, extraordinarily thoughtful
exploration of what it means to believe anything . . . There are
entire novels that do less than Storr achieves here in a mere 30
pages . . . Running through all these stories is Storr s growing
uncertainty about certainty." Laura Miller, "Salon"
"Drawing upon his well-documented store of inquisitiveness about
superstition, eccentricity, and idiosyncratic beliefs, Storr has
delivered an accessible look at the brain s capacity for adopting
unconventional ideas . . . Storr s distillation of current thinking
on the subject is a nice primer for the non-expert reader."" The
Daily Beast"
"Throws new and salutary light on all our conceits and beliefs.
Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative
journalism of the highest order." "Independent, Book of the
Week"
"Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has
an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson s taste for the
fabulously weird and Louis Theroux s ability to put his subjects at
ease. He is a funny and companionable guide . . . [who] confounds
expectations." "Guardian""
"Mr. Storr has an engaging, first-person style and makes it clear
that his purpose is to grasp why people believe such
irrationalities more than it is to debunk their specific beliefs.
But he gives his readers enough information to test the
verisimilitude of his characters' claim. The subtle brilliance of
"The Unpersuadables" is Mr. Storr's style of letting his subjects
hang themselves with their own words."--"Wall Street Journal"
"The subtle brilliance of "The Unpersuadables" is Mr. Storr's style
of letting his subjects hang themselves with their own words."
--Michael Shermer, "The Wall Street Journal"
"A tour de force . . . A searching, extraordinarily thoughtful
exploration of what it means to believe anything . . . There are
entire novels that do less than Storr achieves here in a mere 30
pages . . . Running through all these stories is Storr's growing
uncertainty about certainty." --Laura Miller, "Salon"
"Drawing upon his well-documented store of inquisitiveness about
superstition, eccentricity, and idiosyncratic beliefs, Storr has
delivered an accessible look at the brain's capacity for adopting
unconventional ideas . . . Storr's distillation of current thinking
on the subject is a nice primer for the non-expert reader." "--The
Daily Beast"
"Throws new and salutary light on all our conceits and beliefs.
Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative
journalism of the highest order." --"Independent, Book of the
Week"
"Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has
an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson's taste for the
fabulously weird and Louis Theroux's ability to put his subjects at
ease. He is a funny and companionable guide . . . [who] confounds
expectations." --"Guardian"
"A tour de force . . . A searching, extraordinarily thoughtful
exploration of what it means to believe anything . . . There are
entire novels that do less than Storr achieves here in a mere 30
pages . . . Running through all these stories is Storr's growing
uncertainty about certainty." -"Salon"
"Drawing upon his well-documented store of inquisitiveness about
superstition, eccentricity, and idiosyncratic beliefs, Storr has
delivered an accessible look at the brain's capacity for adopting
unconventional ideas . . . Storr's distillation of current thinking
on the subject is a nice primer for the non-expert reader." "-The
Daily Beast"
"Throws new and salutary light on all our conceits and beliefs.
Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative
journalism of the highest order." --"Independent, Book of the
Week"
"Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has
an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson's taste for the
fabulously weird and Louis Theroux's ability to put his subjects at
ease. He is a funny and companionable guide . . . [who] confounds
expectations." --"Guardian"
"Throws new and salutary light on all our conceits and beliefs.
Very valuable, and a great read to boot, this is investigative
journalism of the highest order." --"Independent, Book of the
Week"
"Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has
an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson's taste for the
fabulously weird and Louis Theroux's ability to put his subjects at
ease. He is a funny and companionable guide . . . [who] confounds
expectations." --"Guardian"
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