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Review title: Not a cut-and-paste job
Product review: When Madman or Messiah first came out, I thumbed through it and noticed the long quotations by people other than the author. I figured the book was just some structureless compilation of ex-scientologist's little stories. (Tilman Hausherr, in his well written review in this thread, sees the book this way.) For years, I didn't bother to read it. Recently, I picked it up again, after having read many other books critical of Scientology. I now think my earlier view of Madman or Messiah was mistaken. There is a substantial chronological, autobiographical structure to the book, in which the long quotations from other ex-scientologists play a supportive role. The richness of detail and the clarity of presentation make this book one of the best of the many good books by ex-Scientologists about Scientology.
