I’m slow-going with Helter Skelter
. It’s about the Manson Murders that took place back in Hollywood in 1969.
. It’s about the Manson Murders that took place back in Hollywood in 1969.I have to admit, I am drawn into the story, but the writers are really dragging me down with details. The book reads at times like a police report, and other times like a well-told story. There are often too many details, and I’m tempted to skim. But I can’t. It’s part of the reason why I’m a slow reader, and I can’t help it.
I’m less than 100 pages into the over 600-page book, and we’re still going over the crime scene and the backgrounds of the people involved in the murders. Charles Manson’s name has not yet been mentioned once. I guess I’ll change what I wrote above, and say that Helter Skelter reads like a court case, and the authors are trying to present a case, though that case is more like history, than one particular viewpoint. Bugliosi and Gentry are not arguing for one side or another, but are, instead, giving me a pretty interesting, though sometimes tiresome, picture of the case. The whole case. Every single detail they could find.
Unlike City of Thieves
, there is nothing funny about Helter Skelter. It’s pretty gruesome, actually. I don’t yet know, and I am dying to find out the reasons, why (I know, I could just go online and find the answer to pretty much any question I might have about this case in less than two minutes) someone would stab another person over forty times. FORTY! One person was stabbed over fifty! What the f...!!! Just try to imagine yourself stabbing someone even twice. I can’t. What the hell goes through a person’s mind when they’re doing that? How can you possibly be that angry, have that much hatred, especially in such a washed out, vanilla (at least on the surface) place as Hollywood? If this were taking place in a war zone, I might be able to better understand it. But from what little I do know about this case, the victims did not in any way harm the murderers or their families. Pure lunacy.
, there is nothing funny about Helter Skelter. It’s pretty gruesome, actually. I don’t yet know, and I am dying to find out the reasons, why (I know, I could just go online and find the answer to pretty much any question I might have about this case in less than two minutes) someone would stab another person over forty times. FORTY! One person was stabbed over fifty! What the f...!!! Just try to imagine yourself stabbing someone even twice. I can’t. What the hell goes through a person’s mind when they’re doing that? How can you possibly be that angry, have that much hatred, especially in such a washed out, vanilla (at least on the surface) place as Hollywood? If this were taking place in a war zone, I might be able to better understand it. But from what little I do know about this case, the victims did not in any way harm the murderers or their families. Pure lunacy. And I love it.
-Bryan
Bryan! What a unique idea for a blog. The site looks great so far - look forward to following along this year.
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