title: Them : Adventures With Extremists
author:  Jon Ronson 
description: Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie, Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, The Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists. His first fictional screenplay, Frank, co-written with Peter Straughan, starred Michael Fassbender. He lives in London and New York City.
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  Jon Ronson
  
  
  United Kingdom
  
  
  Out of the Ordinary
  
  
  True Tales of Everyday Craziness
  
  
  
  
  
  2006, EN
  
  
  Jon Ronson’s subjects have included people who believe that goats can be
  killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the
  world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In _Out of the Ordinary_ , a
  collection of his journalism from the Guardian, he turns his attention to
  irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we
  sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect
  sense – mainstream, domestic, ordinary insanity. Whether he finds himself
  promising his son that he will be at his side for ever, dressed in a Santa
  costume, or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people
  would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster, he
  demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that
  grow to inform our everyday existence. _Out of the Ordinary_ is Jon Ron