serene’s posterous

I thought this book by Jon Krakauer was only average.  He uses the account of the murder of Brenda Lafferty and her baby daughter (by her Mormon fundamentalist brothers-in-law, Dan and Ron Lafferty) to examine Mormon history and roots of their beliefs.  While I don't think this is an anti-Mormon book, it certainly does reveal some less than flattering parts of the Mormon history.  It seems, however, that the historical parts are not well integrated with the rest of the book, as Krakauer moves from chapter to chapter.