Finally picked up a copy of Under The Banner of Heaven in the SLC airport
 

on my way back home. About 1/3 of the way through it. He does a "great" job of interweaving mainstream LDS with fundies to make it sound one and the same.

Jerkwad.

I don't know. Coming from someone with no dog in the fight I didn't come away with the idea that you all were busy marrying and bedding multiple underage girls.

I like Krakauer, he lets the facts do the talking without a lot of editorializing on his part.

yeah, krakauer is an impartial dispassionate neutral observer.

To reiterate, I've no dog in the fight and it seemed pretty even handed to me. Is it possible that your own biases are coloring your opinion of Mr. Krakauer and his work?

We can't all be as impartial as you are, Mike.

Black who works on the project does Big Love.

As landpoke stated he creates the allusion he is relying simply upon facts, when what he presents are skewed versions of facts.

Here are some valid critiques of Kraphead's work.

http://bjornisageek.blogspot.com/200...en-review.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/bo...ll.html?src=pm

http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/...erOfHeaven.htm

shit book about to be shit movie.

It will be carefully designed to malign the Church and any LDS presidential candidates.

Well, I don't know how accurate his account of Into the Wild was, but I did enjoy the movie. If one of my sons ran away like that I would be so incredibly heartbroken. It was a selfish dumbass thing to do to people who love you.

Opie Taylor has made a few good movies. I will at least have to check this one out once it gets to Netflix.