Reddit reviews Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

If you're really interested, and you haven't read it already, I would recommend reading Seductive Poison. Deborah Layton gives her account of People's Temple.

I just finished reading Seductive Poison about the Jonestown massacre and the people’s temple cult. Mormonism isn’t quite there in terms of its level of crazy but it’s only one insane prophet away. Mormons ability to not see cultish tendencies is amazing.

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385489846/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_midgAbXY8H7GR

You might read "Seductive Poison" by Deborah Layton. She accounts her story on how she was lured into a cult and how she survived.

http://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Poison-Jonestown-Survivors-Peoples/dp/0385489846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373763381&sr=8-1&keywords=seductive+Poison

Here is the audio of the event of the mass suicide.
Audio

Documentory about it. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006): Video

Book on the subject. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple: Book

Penny books for the win!

I think this would be a really interesting read, I'm fascinated by weird stuff, what can I say?

lol no. Around the time it happened a group of us were hanging out at our local middle schools playground smoking weed, late at night and saw a bunch of people wearing all black and had white shoes.... They were doing a weird dance on the baseball part of the field for a few minutes then ran off.

There were 4 or 5 of us and I remember we all saw it, so it wasn't just me being paranoid... And I fucking hate weed because this sort of crap happens every time I smoke, but everyone else saw it too, so a fond childhood memory.

Anyways, I'm currently dealing with 2 family members sucked up into a cult and the whole incident popped into my head a week ago, so; make a random reddit handle (I have 50 or so.)

I have a wavy recollection of that incident, maybe one day I'll look more into it, for now I have reality to deal with. :/

I'm sure you've heard of Jim Jones, I randomly stumbled on this book at a goodwill a long time ago, very good read on an actual cult survivor.

I highly recommend the book 'Seductive Poison' if you're interested in finding out more about it. It's a really crazy story.

I think this is probably the most interesting book on my Books WL. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story. I think there are so many sides to one story, so many accounts of the same events. but with this, so many of those who could have told their stories, died, and their accounts along with them. I am a huge non-fiction nerd and a history buff, and I would love to read this book.

Thank you for hosting a book contest.