The Call of the Weird (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to combine 3 books, including The Call of the Weird, Monday, October 19 2009.

Ulrich submitted a request to combine 3 books, including The Call of the Weird, Monday, October 19 2009.

Cintha V edited the table of contents of The Call of the Weird Wednesday, August 26 2009.

• Prologue
  THOR TEMPLAR
  JJ MICHAELS
  IKE TURNER
  MIKE CAIN
  HAYLEY
  JERRY GRUIDL
  MELLO T
  OSCODY
  MARSHALL SILVER
  APRIL, LAMB AND LYNX
  Epilogue

Cintha V edited the first sentence of The Call of the Weird Wednesday, August 26 2009.

• One cold December day in 1996, I met up with an elderly racist leader named Pastor Richard Butler.

Shelfari edited the description of The Call of the Weird Saturday, August 1 2009.

• "The king of offbeat documentaries sets off across America in search of the weird and wacky. Cool." -- Mail on Sunday (England) No, it doesn't get much weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (who have just formed a white-power folk group for kids called Prussian Blue), and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade now, Louis Theroux has been making programs about offbeat characters on the fringes of U.S. society. Now he revisits the people who have most intrigued him to try to discover what motivates them, and why they believe the things they believe. From his Las Vegas base (where else?), Theroux calls on these assorted dreamers, schemers, and outlaws--and in the process finds out a little about the workings of his own mind. What does it mean, after all, to be weird, or "to be yourself"? Do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us? And is there something particularly weird about Americans? America, prepare yourself for a hilarious look in the mirror that has already taken the rest of the English-speaking world by storm: "Paul Theroux's son writes with just as clear an eye for character and place as his father.... And he's funny.... Theroux's final analysis of American weirdness is true and new." -- Literary Review (England)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Call of the Weird Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Louis Theroux: (Primary Author)