Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

WOOF Scientology. That's the overarching feeling I've had since I finished this last night.

The gaslighting! The hypocrisy! The bad/off-policy behavior by church leaders! The whole mess with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' wedding! The amount of tattling on each other the church members got up to! Heartbreakingly, the amount of money the church conned its members into taking on as debt in order to donate to the church coffers in order to remain in good standing with the organization. More heartbreakingly, the disconnection and distrust family members and friends were forced to feel for each other when one of their loved ones left the church.

(Also, since no one that was mentioned in the book ever saw Shelly with their own eyes after her disappearance [which was SO SHADY], you cannot convince me that David Miscavige didn't murder his wife.)

Fascinating and horrifying.