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Summary: Great Find
Review: Great book, great find, thanks for listing it under your Bookstore's gift ideas. This is a book all high schoolers should be made to read. It's about being alone, afraid and looking for something to join-- SOUND FAMILIAR?
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Summary: Poignant
Review: I laughed, cried, read on and felt the terror of Layton's realization that all of them (her mother and brother included) had been "wholly deceived".
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Summary: No way
Review: This book should have fiction stamped across the cover. Take it for what it is - a well written piece of bull
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Summary: A disturbing, powerfully written insider-experts account
Review: This book gives a rare peek into the cloaked world of an organized fringe group which fronted as a well respected church. It is both educating and haunting.
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Summary: Unbelievably Profound
Review: This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. Why is it such a well kept secret?
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Summary: WOW
Review: I received this book on the first night of Chanukah. I mistakenly thought it was a woman's book. WRONG! I read it in one sitting and felt the hair on my back and chest rise during her brave and ballsy escape. This is a story boys can read and should. There are universal lessons to be learned from this powerful memoir
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Summary: Seductive Posion
Review: Chilling, Courageous, Compassionate and Unforgetable. Listened to a mesmerizing interview with Deborah Layton on The Spirit of Things. It made me sit back and think twice about how I had categorized the followers of Jim Jones. Her voice, her explanation, the book, are all a treat for those like me: world weary and hardened.
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Summary: Magnificent Feat
Review: Listened to the author speak on Sam Morris's radio book show and was delighted to find it again in the Amazon's Great Gifts Memoir section. The new paperback edition is a great gift idea. I had already read it in hardcover and wanted to get it for my gandchildren inexpensively. On the back of the gift copy, the noveelist, Amy Tan writes that it is an absolutely riveting story, with the pulse-pounding suspense of a murder mystery. I want my grandchildren to read this because I believe it will innoculate them against other Search and Seize organizations which prowl our college campuses looking for wide-eyed innocent youngsters. What Deborah shows in her memoir is how the young, naive and those searching for meaning in their lives can become victims to the power of wanting to belong. It should be required reading for all youth. I'm impressed with the courage it had to have taken the author to write such an honest account of her 2,500 days in the cult of the century. Kudo's to you Miss Layton for sharing your life so that we can protect our children.
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Summary: Finally, an explanation that satisfies
Review: Deborah's use of the present tense, allowing us to see into her life, her conversations with an adept psychopath, and how he used every mind control tactic known to man in his interactions with his followers, is fascinating. Seductive Poison is a well written memoir. And, for the unethical, a How To Handbook. I concur with The Nation's review, it is truly, An Emotionally Articulate and Gripping Account.
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Summary: Miraculous escape story and compelling memoir
Review: While listening to Marty Mosscoanne on WHYY I was surprised to find myself interested in this story. The guest/author, Ms Layton was articulate & the way she writes about her seven year experience with Jones' cult is deeply moving. There is an important message that she carries and we the public would be better served being able to hear it again and again.
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