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Title	:	The Men Who Stare at Goats
Author	:	Jon Ronson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	2005 by Picador USA (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Politics. Psychology. War. Military Fiction. Humor

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Jon Ronson

Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 14536 Users | 1249 Reviews

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American military paranoia at its most extreme, insane, amusing -- and alarming Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? And why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying both military practice and the laws of physics, they believed a soldier could become invisible, pass through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Ronson has traced the evolution of these bizarre activities over the past three decades, and poses questions no-one else has yet dared to ask about which of them -- and more -- are happening still.

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Original Title:	The Men Who Stare at Goats
ISBN:	0330375482 (ISBN13: 9780330375481)
Edition Language:	English

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during the cold war the cia was engaged in some strange strange shit -- psychic spies and remote viewings and lots more: agents staring at goats all day long trying to make their hearts explode (some of the higher ups claim to have seen it happen), agents (with badly scuffed noses and foreheads) trying to walk through walls, dosing people with lsd, playing music with subliminal messages, entering the bad guy's lair while cradling a baby lamb in one's arms as a means to overpower the enemy with

I bought this because I loved the movie, but gave up half-way through. It's too matter of fact to be effectively satirical, and too silly to be taken seriously. I found myself getting bored. Time to move on to one of the many other titles on my TBR list.For anyone else who is considering this based on having seen the film - the book is very different structurally, though it deals with the same basic themes.

It's hard to know what to say about this book as it's a light-hearted, somewhat mocking look at the various nefarious schemes of the American Military, or at least of some of the specialised recherche departments of Intelligence. However, the subject is deadly serious and what seems funny on the surface - bombarding Iraqi prisoners with an endless loop of the Barney song, 14,000 renditions over three days - really isn't when you consider that this 'information' was probably released deliberately

What a fucking crazy book! I've never seen the movie, I can't even see how it could be made into one unless it was a fake documentary. It's basically about a lot of really weird supernatural shit the American military has at least tested out the possibilities of, and a lot of other really funny stuff like esoteric martial arts. Considering the super useful things that have come from the military that would have looked like pure magic 100 years ago (GPS is the first thing that springs to mind),

So many emotions. This book wasn't quite what I thought it would be...a humorous account of crackpot guys doing crazy things, such as trying to stop a goat's heart by the power of the mind. Okay well it was that. It also detailed events surrounding Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, 911, Waco, MK-ULTRA and the 'War on terror'. Jon Ronson wrote this in 2004 at a time when Iraq was just being handed back from coalition forces to the new Iraqi government (which of course has been a great success on all

After watching the movie version of The Men Who Stare At Goats, I figured that there must be a kernel of truth to it coated with several layers of Hollywood bullshit so I read the book to get an idea of what the real story was. I thought Id get a funny story about some stupid things the military did once upon a time. Instead, the book turns into a template for starting conspiracy theories that really pissed me off.Oddly enough, the really weird stuff that happened in the film version is the