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Blown For Good: Behind The Iron Curtain Of Scientology (2009)

by Marc Headley(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0982502206 (ISBN13: 9780982502204)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

BFG Incorporated

review 1: While this is not a well-written book, I found it interesting to hear from someone trapped in Scientology's Sea Org without having a strong belief in it. But it won't answer any questions you might have about how people justify staying or what makes them leave, because Headley recaps the facts but doesn't always include his thoughts or emotions about those facts. For example, he gets married, and then 13 years later when he wants to leave he's desperate to contact his wife. But we never hear about his wife in between those mentions. I assume he loved her very much because he helped her escape and they are still together, but you wouldn't know it from the book. What was happening to her? Was she happy, sad, supportive, in the RPF, etc etc? He mentions wanting to leave sever... moreal times but not what made him stay: lack of resources, changed his mind, persuaded to stay?The most interesting part to me was how he got involved in the first place, lacking other choices as a teenager because of his irresponsible parents. After that though, we don't hear much about his beliefs or lack of them. The incident that makes him decide to leave doesn't seem better or worse than other incidents of mistreatment he describes, so why leave then? I would have liked to know more about his thought processes, since any book can tell us the history of the group but only ex-members can give us any insight about what people think about it during their time there or with the benefit of hindsight afterwards.
review 2: I don't know how much of this book is truly believable I would hope very little. But we all know when given too much power over a group of people awful things can happen. I remember reading books by L Ron Hubbard "Black Genesis," "Dialectics", battlefield earth" but I didn't really accept any of it as true. I'm not even sure why but my common sense just said no. Back then he was a known racist and homophobe as stated in this book. But because this was said about many people back then it didn't majorly influence my opinion. If what He has written here is true I hope his family will also leave this "cult". If he is just angry at those in power I hope he grows beyond. Because as much as I hate to see anyone hurt or suffer. I do believe in freedom of religion and expression. And I hate a witch hunt. less

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