Jon Ronson meets everybody from a Broadmoor inmate who swears he faked a mental disorder to get a lighter sentence but is now stuck there to the influential psychologist who developed the industry standard Psychopath Test and who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths. Combining Jon's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is a deeply honest book unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. The first chapter of this book was the least interesting part, and i was worried the whole novel would go this way. However he slowly started to pick it up by the second chapter. His approach to madness started interestingly, more of an observers point of view of madness, instead of a scientific view. However i found this novelty wore off quickly and he almost felt a bit fake in his challenge to uncover madness. I suppose the fact he just travelled round to meet interesting characters but never really concluded made this book feel a little disjointed.
The content was interesting but the story telling felt in some places a little dull. I could not loose myself in this book as I have others and wish their was a little more content to what he was saying. Some of the case studies he investigated were interested but I felt like their was too much filler to these.
An interesting book from a new perspective - as an observational piece, just the delivery i did not find very interesting. I could not get into this book as much as I would have liked to. I think the most interesting part was about the mad man in Broadmoor and wether he was supposed to be their, the rest just felt like filler around this.
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