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An excellent nonfiction book exploring religious fanatacism. Krakauer chooses as his focus a particularly brutal murder that occurred in Utah in the early 80s, committed by two Mormon fundamentalists. Brenda Lafferty and her daughter Erica were murdered in 1984 by Ron and Dan Rafferty, her brothers-in-law, who believed God had ordered the murders. Krakauer relates the events leading up to the murder in meticulous detail, as well as providing a history of both mainstream Mormonism and the fundamentalist sects that exist alongside the official LDS church.
I expected that this would be a very well-researched and well-told story before I even began to read, being familiar with Krakauer's other excellent books. I wasn't disappointed. Krakauer remains carefully impartial, while raising profound questions about faith and fanatacism.
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crowyhead, September 26, 2006
An excellent nonfiction book exploring religious fanatacism. Krakauer chooses as his focus a particularly brutal murder that occurred in Utah in the early 80s, committed by two Mormon fundamentalists. Brenda Lafferty and her daughter Erica were murdered in 1984 by Ron and Dan Rafferty, her brothers-in-law, who believed God had ordered the murders. Krakauer relates the events leading up to the murder in meticulous detail, as well as providing a history of both mainstream Mormonism and the fundamentalist sects that exist alongside the official LDS church.I expected that this would be a very well-researched and well-told story before I even began to read, being familiar with Krakauer's other excellent books. I wasn't disappointed. Krakauer remains carefully impartial, while raising profound questions about faith and fanatacism.
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