Reviews

Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips, Tom Phillips, Jonn Elledge

sophietica's review

4.0

A light-hearted look at the history and current state of conspiracy theories. Funny read, although a bit depressing about the current day.

karo_books's review

4.0

I always enjoy books from this series. They may not be anything revolutionary, but they’re always really funny and have a good storytelling rhythm. Not like your usual non-fiction but still very well prepared and thoroughly researched. This one was no exception, I really enjoyed it, cause instead of going in-depth into specific conspiracy theories it explains the logic behind them, why we fall for them and why we always will.
Really good read overall

hchivers's review

5.0

A very interesting look at how conspiracy theories have evolved over time and the links between them

godlizza's review

3.0

While this book offered some interesting insight into the backstories of a lot of popular conspiracy theories and how they came to prominence, there wasn't a whole lot of new information presented to me in this book. I will say I was a little shook when I found out the pyramid with the eyes isn't an actual symbol of the og Illuminati and was instead an element of a series of fictional novels surrounding the Illuminati that we've all just adopted as fact?

My one actual gripe is not with the book itself but the audiobook, and that's that Tom Phillips is a far superior narrator than John Elledge. Elledge speaks in a very soft, raspy voice, so it sounds like he's muttering whenever he's talking. He also speaks way quicker than Phillips, so any time one of his sections came I'd have to slow the book down and even then I still couldn't understand him the whole time. Phillips speaks in a clear, annunciated voice and even on 2.5x speed I could understand him perfectly. I just wish he'd narrated the whole book tbh.