The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

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by Louis Theroux
Narrated by Louis Theroux
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LENGTH

3 hrs and 48 mins
RELEASE DATE

05/06/2007
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PUBLISHER

Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Publisher's Summary

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them. Along the way, Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people and considers whether he's learned anything about himself in the course of ten years working with them. Has he manipulated the people he's interviewed, or have they manipulated him?

From his Las Vegas base, Louis revisits the assorted dreamers and outlaws who have been his TV feeding ground. Attempting to understand a little about himself and the workings of his own mind, Louis considers questions such as: what is the difference between pathology and "normal" weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird, or "to be yourself"? And do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?

What the Critics Say

"Alternately fascinating and sad." (Kirkus Reviews)

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By Colin

London, United Kingdom

26/06/07

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"One of my favourite downloads so far"

If you love Louis, then what are you waiting for. I have his DVD box set of Weird Weekends at home and have always been fascinated and appalled with some of the excesses of humanity he's interviewed. Yet, I've always wanted to know...'What happened next?' Well, Call of the Weird will tell all...
This download, superbly and personally narrated by Louis, is HIGHLY recommended.

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By Chris

Bury, United Kingdom

23/04/12

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"This book does not disappoint!!"

It's everything you could possibly want from a Louis Theroux book. PLUS, it's read by the wonderful man himself!!

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