Jon Ronson Release Date: December 2006 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780330448321 ISBN-10: 0330448323
A collection of Jon's newspaper features, reworked and with new material, with a common theme: the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense.
In Jon's previous two books, Them and The Men Who Stare at Goats, the nuttiness took place a long way from everyday life – on US military bases, or at Jihad training camps, or during conclaves of powerful men gathered for an annual ritual in a redwood forest. In Out of the Ordinary, the nuttiness is much closer to home – it's mainstream, domestic, ordinary insanity.
Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious, thought-provoking and with an unerring eye for human frailty – not least his own.
