I came of age during the political scenes described in this book, steeped in radical left wing organizing. I watched many of the events described in this book evolve from an opposite perspective; considered many of the figures written about in this text the biggest threat to Democracy/the organizing my comrades and I were working on.

I’ve watched the investigative pieces the author describes filming; desperate to put together the reasons why the alt right were having such a political and social moment.

Reading this book felt like stepping back into a Time Machine, like finding all the answers to a test two years after the class ended, like reminiscing with someone who had served in the same “war” as I did.

This book is so important. Documenting the hate, the petty squabbles, and the organizational struggles (and successes) of the alt right is important because we must learn from these movements to continue to fight against fascism in the modern era.

Black Pill is a wild, fascinating and frustrating look at the shifting world around us and the people who become radicalized and how and why they believe such hateful and awful things.

I like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me a chance of reading this disturbing book.

While some books have covered the whole alt-right, Q and 45 supporter timeline / time-frame, this book goes into the minuscule details. The hows and why, the things that pushed it into the light. Let's call it the calm before the storm, though in this aspect it's certainly not anything but calm.

This book was absolutely disturbing to read, and the interviews and recorded / typed information presented in this book are equally disturbing. Sometimes while reading a chunk I had to take a step away from my kindle because it just perplexed and disturbed me that a group of people existed like this on the internet, thought this way, acted this way. I honestly wanted to unread what I read.

I encourage any one who is intrigued and wants to read a documented account of someone who was there for some of the big moments of the alt-right agenda / rise.

Thanks to Atria Books and Netgalley for providing this title. Very interesting journalistic recounting of the reporter’s time spent with some of the alt-right organizations and their leaders, and examining how 4chan and 8chan contributed to their growth. The majority of the information I was already familiar with from other readings and shows about Charlottesville and January 6. Recommended if you’d like to learn more about the recent origins of those events.

A really informative book about what has led to some of the violence of the past few years. The author got close to some altright leaders as a known outsider and was able to give us a view into what these people were thinking