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“All the stories had a common thread—that somehow the victims had brought the murders on themselves…”

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry

December 20, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I went into this book with a slight bias. My mother and my grandmother saw Vincent Bugliosi give a lecture about the Manson trial at the University my mother was attending, so I had a second-hand opinion on the man himself; my grandmother thought him wonderful, my mother thought him a fascist. The majority of the talk was comprised of two facts: his wonderfulness, and how the “Manson girls”, as he called them, were all laughing it up in Country Club prisons, playing […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: the trial, the true story of the manson murders, Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:151 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: the trial, the true story of the manson murders, Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry ·
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The Trial – Review #5 for AamilTheCamel

February 8, 2014 by AamilTheCamel Leave a Comment

The court doesn’t want anything from you. It accepts you when you come and it lets you go when you leave.

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, 130 challenge, book review, Fiction, kafka, surrealism, the trial

AamilTheCamel's CBR6 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, 130 challenge, book review, Fiction, kafka, surrealism, the trial ·
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