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Going Clear

Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Mar 20, 2019agolanka rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
After watching the HBO documentary of the same name, I developed an insatiable curiosity for Scientology that I hoped this book could appease. Going Clear by Lawrence Wright definitely answered all my burning questions, as well as my glowering, flickering, and even smoldering questions. In fact, I think Going Clear went into such great depth, that I really don’t have any curiosity left for Scientology. Wright covers most points of Scientology in great (and sometimes unnecessary) depth, from founder L Ron Hubbard’s entire life, to current leader’s David Miscavige’s entire life, to Hollywood’s influence and the secretive lives of Scientologists. Don’t get me wrong, I think this book is great, thorough, and very well-researched and I would recommend it to those with the same compulsive curiosity as me. Going Clear is the definitive wild story about the secretive and paranoid “religion.” However, if you want more of an overview of the main points, and don’t need to read ~450 pages of a Scientology investigation, the documentary is a much less time consuming alternative.