La famiglia. Charles Manson e gli assassini di Sharon Tate
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Pochi mesi dopo la premiazione agli Oscar di «Rosemary's Baby», la moglie incinta del regista Polanski, l'attrice Sharon Tate, e altre quattro persone vengono barbaramente uccise. Siamo nell'agosto del 1969. La polizia non scopre nessun movente, se non apparentemente le tracce di un rituale satanico. Due giorni dopo, stessa sorte capita a una coppia di facoltosi coniugi di Los Angeles. Il terrore s'impadronisce della California. Nessuna pista - gioco, droga, vendetta - porta a risultati concreti. Solo un caso porta alla verità. Gli assassini sono dei giovani cittadini statunitensi (con una forte componente femminile) che da un paio d'anni conducono una vita errabonda nel Topanga Canyon sotto la guida di Charles Manson. Sempre ai margini della legge, più volte arrestati, questi giovani avevano dato vita a una comune dai costumi liberi, strettamente coesa intorno al suo leader, cui tributavano un'obbedienza e un'adorazione totali. Che cosa abbia potuto trasformare questi giovani hippie in una banda di assassini e quali fossero le cause dell'ascendente di Charles Manson - un personaggio inquietante che di volta in volta si proclamava Satana e Cristo, che aveva avuto un'infanzia terribile ma che era anche un musicista vero tanto da ispirare Dennis Wilson, fondatore dei Beach Boys - è quanto Ed Sanders si propone di spiegare in questo libro.
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- Data di uscita: 22-03-2018
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Sanders has the information. Being an expert is the only reason he could get away with this total turd of a book. His writing alternates between unengaging and annoying, bogged down with over-worded sentences and his horrible hippie slang. On top of that you get his constant stabs at being clever. F Leggi tutto
this book is awesome in a teenage boy who's really into death metal and smokes pot all day kind of way. also, if you're into group dynamics, the occult, California as alternate universe, or really amazing hippie slang.
I found this book at some used bookstore and gave it to my roommate, known for his interest in the bizarre. Then, months later, wanting something lighter than another reworked, Cambridge-published dissertation to read, I asked him for some recommendations. This book came up and was sitting on the di Leggi tutto
I can only describe this book as "uneven." This book was painful to read at some times (and not because of the content, although that was squirm-inducing, too) but was easy to read at other times. There were times I couldn't put the book down, then other times when I couldn't read a page without nod Leggi tutto
The Family (published 2002) fka The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion by Ed Sanders (E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc. 1971) (301.4494) is a must-read for anyone interested in the Manson Family. This book is sort of the flip-side of Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter . Bugliosi Leggi tutto
Ed Sanders (ex-Fug, leader of the counterculture, circa '67, according to Life magazine) should be commended for the kitchen sink approach he takes to his subject. He includes every unanswered question, rumor and crackpot conspiracy theory related to Manson, his accomplices and their crimes. He tie
Another paperback pilfered from my mother. Bugliosi's HELTER SKELTER is a more authoritative book, but for the pure feel of how freaky the world felt in 69/70, Sanders' voice is quintessential. There's a sarcasm to the style that makes the narrative much more disturbing than the true-life crime acco Leggi tutto
For my two hits of orange sunshine, still the best book on the Manson murders. Written while some of the accused were still on trial, Sanders' viewpoint is immersed in the weird swamp of dark occultism that was LA in the 60s. Full of unspeakable rumor and names that can't be spoken, THE FAMILY reads Leggi tutto
I was seventeen and living in L.A. when the Manson murders happened, so revisiting this book which I read back then was a walk down memory lane (or Reseda Boulevard). Sanders has a unique style, almost ESL, which takes us into the evil empire of Charles Manson. It is discouraging how many young wome Leggi tutto
The book to end all books on Manson, written with great humor, sadness, horror, and--of course--poetry by a counter-culture icon from Independence, Missouri, the founder of the Fugs, and publisher of much wonderful verse, Ed Sanders. Blows HELTER SKELTER out of the water with both hands tied behind
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