UnitedHealthcare shooter person of interest gave Unabomber’s manifesto four stars on Goodreads: ‘Political revolutionary’

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The person of interest in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to have left a positive review of the Unabomber’s manifesto online earlier this year, praising the killer as a “political revolutionary.”

Police named Luigi Mangione as a “strong person of interest” on Monday after taking him into custody in connection with the murder.

An account under that name on the book review website Goodreads, which also matches photos of the suspect on other social media platforms, gave Ted Kaczynski‘s book a four-star review in January.

“Clearly written by a math prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of the 21st century quality of life,” the review says.

“It is easy to hastily and thoughtlessly write this off as the manifesto of a madman, to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it is simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out,” the review continues.

“He was a violent individual – rightfully incarcerated – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy Luddite, they are more accurately seen as the actions of an extreme political revolutionary,” continues the review of an account under Mangione’s name.

Mangione gave the manifesto of the Unabomber a four-star rating.

Mangione gave the manifesto of the Unabomber a four-star rating. (Screengrab / The Independent)

Thompson, 50, was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel early Wednesday morning by a masked man who fled on a bicycle.

Police received a major clue to the killer’s motives after it was revealed that the words “reject,” “depose,” and “defense” were carved into the live rounds and shells found outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. where the shooting took place.

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after he was spotted at a McDonald’s by someone who thought he resembled the gunman, officials said at a news conference.

He was found with a firearm and a silencer consistent with the weapon used to shoot Thompson, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

He also had multiple fraudulent identifications and a handwritten document that speaks to “both his motivation and his mindset,” Tisch said.

Police are likely combing social media accounts belonging to Mangione. The former University of Pennsylvania student had accounts on X, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Kaczynski's book was an argument against modern industrial society.

Kaczynski’s book was an argument against modern industrial society. (Industrial_Society_Ted Kaczynski)

On Goodreads, Mangione appears to have written about 65 reviews of books on politics, popular science, health and exercise. Among his latest batch of reviews, published in January this year, was George Orwell’s 1984two guidebooks to Hawaii, two books on computer programming and Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax.

Mangione didn’t leave written reviews of all the books—sometimes just giving them a one-star rating.

Last year he posted a series of reviews of books on back pain as well as Kaczynski’s Industrial society and its future, the 35,000-word manifesto that he sent to Washington Post with a promise to end his 1978-1995 mail bombing campaign if the newspaper published it.

He appears to have read several books about Elon Musk, the Harry Potter series and the autobiography of Jackass star Steve-O, titled Professional Idiot: A Memoir.

The memoir written by future Vice President JD Vance was also on Mangione’s reading list. He gave it 3.86 stars.