I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. Following on from his TV show (Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends), Theroux goes back to meet some of the people he talked to for his TV show several years on. I think the main problem I had was the people that he met: UFO nuts, porn stars, neo-nazis, cultists etc. They were weird, sometimes grotesque, sad and sometimes pathetic, but what they weren’t was sympathetic. I didn’t really feel any sympathy or anything in common at all, despite Theroux’s fondness for them (well, mostly).
It made for an interesting road trip book though.