num_pages: 290
description: No, it doesn't get any weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (A.K.A. Prussian Blue, a white-power folk group for kids) and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade, Louis Theroux has been making acclaimed television programs about offbeat characters on the fringes of U.S. society. Now he revisits the people who have intrigued him the most to try to discover what motivates them-and why they hold their bizarre beliefs. Reflecting on these assorted dreamers, schemers, and outlaws, Theroux entertainingly and unforgettably creates "a moving, funny, and frightening expose of America and its often elusive dream" ("NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC").
language: English
title: The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
titlecomplete: The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures
characters: Prussian Blue, April Gaede, Ike Turner, Lynx Gaede, Lamb Gaede
genres: Biography, Cults, The United States Of America, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Travel, Sociology, Journalism, Audiobook
ratings_count: 6613
publisher: Pan Books