Reviews
"Clever and thought-provoking, this book has the potential to open an important dialogue about faux moral posturing online and its potentially disastrous consequences." -- Publishers Weekly Praise for Jon Ronson "You have developed something...it's almost like a new category of investigative satire. You go and you explore with great intellectual curiosity, but you find a way to make it very funny."--Jon Stewart to Jon Ronson, on The Daily Show "So entertaining...a smarter, nuttier version of The Tipping Point or Blink ...Mr. Ronson...follows his trail of bread crumbs to the realms that really matter...Somehow he is able to keep his book both light and nightmarish...He remains terrifically adept at capturing the horror of these developments without losing track of their lunacy." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Jon Ronson's writing is so charming, so entertaining and strange I would follow him anywhere, including a maximum security prison." --Sarah Vowell, New York Times- bestselling author of Unfamiliar Fishes, "This is a wonderful book." -Jon Stewart "[A] simultaneously lightweight and necessary book." - Esquire "A work of original, inspired journalism." - The Financial Times "[So You've Been Publicly Shamed] is both entertaining and fair -- a balance we could use a lot more of, online and off." - Vulture "Ronson is an entertaining and provocative writer, with a broad reach ...[ So You've Been Publicly Shamed ] is a well-reported, entertainingly written account of an important subject." -The Oregonian "Ronson is a fun writer to read...fascinating." - Fast Company "[So You've Been Publicly Shamed] promises to be the most relevant book of the year." -FlavorWire "I was sickly fascinated by the book. I think it's Ronson's best book." -Mark Frauenfelder for BoingBoing "With confidence, verve, and empathy, Ronson skillfully informs and engages the reader without excusing those caught up in the shame game. As he stresses, we are the ones wielding this incredible power over others' lives, often with no regard for the lasting consequences of our actions." -Starred Booklist Review "Clever and thought-provoking, this book has the potential to open an important dialogue about faux moral posturing online and its potentially disastrous consequences." - Publishers Weekly , Praise for Jon Ronson "You have developed something…it's almost like a new category of investigative satire. You go and you explore with great intellectual curiosity, but you find a way to make it very funny."-Jon Stewart to Jon Ronson, on The Daily Show "So entertaining…a smarter, nuttier version of The Tipping Point or Blink …Mr. Ronson…follows his trail of bread crumbs to the realms that really matter…Somehow he is able to keep his book both light and nightmarish…He remains terrifically adept at capturing the horror of these developments without losing track of their lunacy." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Jon Ronson's writing is so charming, so entertaining and strange I would follow him anywhere, including a maximum security prison." -Sarah Vowell, New York Times bestselling author of Unfamiliar Fishes, "Clever and thought-provoking, this book has the potential to open an important dialogue about faux moral posturing online and its potentially disastrous consequences." -- Publishers Weekly "With confidence, verve, and empathy, Ronson skillfully informs and engages the reader without excusing those caught up in the shame game. As he stresses, we are the ones wielding this incredible power over others' lives, often with no regard for the lasting consequences of our actions." --Starred Booklist Review Praise for Jon Ronson "You have developed something...it's almost like a new category of investigative satire. You go and you explore with great intellectual curiosity, but you find a way to make it very funny."--Jon Stewart to Jon Ronson, on The Daily Show "So entertaining...a smarter, nuttier version of The Tipping Point or Blink ...Mr. Ronson...follows his trail of bread crumbs to the realms that really matter...Somehow he is able to keep his book both light and nightmarish...He remains terrifically adept at capturing the horror of these developments without losing track of their lunacy." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Jon Ronson's writing is so charming, so entertaining and strange I would follow him anywhere, including a maximum security prison." --Sarah Vowell, New York Times- bestselling author of Unfamiliar Fishes, "This is a wonderful book." -Jon Stewart "Gutsy and smart. Without losing any of the clever agility that makes his books so winning, he has taken on truly consequential material and risen to the challenge....fascinating...shocking...Mr. Ronson's gift for detail-picking is, as ever, a treat." - The New York Times "A sharp-eyed and often hilarious book...Jon Ronson has written a fresh, big-hearted take on an important and timely topic. He has nothing to be ashamed of." -NPR.org "A diligent investigator and a wry, funny writer, Ronson manages to be at once academic and entertaining." - The Boston Globe "This book really needed to be written." -Salon.com "It's sharply observed, amusingly told, and, while its conclusions may stop just short of profound, the true pleasure of the book lies in arriving at those conclusions." -The Onion, AV Club "Like all of Ronson's books, this one is hard to put down, but you will absolutely do so at some point to Google yourself." -TheMillions.com "An irresistibly gossipy cocktail with a chaser of guilt." - Newsday "With So You've Been Publicly Shamed Ronson has written a timely, interesting and titillating read for any Internet drama junkie." -PopMatters.com "[A] simultaneously lightweight and necessary book." - Esquire "A work of original, inspired journalism." - The Financial Times "[So You've Been Publicly Shamed] is both entertaining and fair -- a balance we could use a lot more of, online and off." - Vulture "Ronson is an entertaining and provocative writer, with a broad reach ...[ So You've Been Publicly Shamed ] is a well-reported, entertainingly written account of an important subject." -The Oregonian "Ronson is a fun writer to read...fascinating." - Fast Company "I was mesmerized. And I was also disturbed." - Forbes "[So You've Been Publicly Shamed] promises to be the most relevant book of the year." -FlavorWire "I was sickly fascinated by the book. I think it's Ronson's best book." -Mark Frauenfelder for BoingBoing "With confidence, verve, and empathy, Ronson skillfully informs and engages the reader without excusing those caught up in the shame game. As he stresses, we are the ones wielding this incredible power over others' lives, often with no regard for the lasting consequences of our actions." -Starred Booklist Review "Clever and thought-provoking, this book has the potential to open an important dialogue about faux moral posturing online and its potentially disastrous consequences." - Publishers Weekly "Relentlessly entertaining and thought-provoking." - The Guardian "Certainly, no reader could finish it without feeling a need to be gentler online, to defer judgment, not to press the retweet button, to resist that primal impulse to stoke the fires of shame." - The Times
