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Cult Insanity: A Memoir Of Polygamy, Prophets, And Blood Atonement (2009)

by Irene Spencer(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0446538191 (ISBN13: 9780446538190)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Center Street

review 1: This book was a unique experience. It was harrowing, and surprisingly different than the books I had read about the Short Creek/Colorado City polygamist colony. It offered a look at stunning and almost unfathomable violence through the eyes of a warm-hearted and selfless narrator. The things Ms. Spencer has gone through in her lifetime could be called unspeakable, but I thank her for braving her past and showing us that people can come out on top even in less-than-ideal circumstances.
review 2: Wow...this book took me a long time to wade through. It doesn't have the same zing as other cult books I've read, but the story is every bit as penetrating. The thing that strikes me most about this book is that the author never seems to regret living a polygamist lifest... moreyle, and even though her husband abandoned her and her children repeatedly, she still held him in the highest esteem. I went into the book thinking it was going to be about how Spencer and her children escaped polygamy and a cult, but the book was more about how power can really mess with peoples' heads. The book reads almost like the Bible... there are false prophets and successions of patriarchs and begats, lots of suffering and multiple wives and hundreds of children, but scariest of all: blood atonement. It's frightening that a charismatic, intelligent man can turn into a murderer who people continue to follow and believe in. less

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