What is Reddit's opinion of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders?

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I totally recommend reading the book Helter Skelter, written by Manson's Prosecutor that goes through the case in explicit detail. It is both fascinating and horrifying to read, but a must read for anyone interested in just how one person could convince others to do evil things without explicitly telling them to do so.

The racial component was seriously strange. Manson believed the Beatles had written the song specifically to teach people about this White Apocalypse that was going to happen where Blacks would finally get fed up with how they were being treated by Whites, and rise up, killing any white they saw. He started to get jaded and disenchanted when it wasn't coming as he had predicted and started lamenting that the blacks may need to be shown how to do it. Shortly after this is when the murders happened, and his followers thought they were "Showing" the blacks how to do it. It's why they wrote things in blood on the wall like "Death to Pigs" and "Rise" on the wall, specifically to try to make their crimes look like they were done by aggrieved blacks, using terminology said by some of the black extremist groups.

After the two sets of murders, they fled to the desert of Death Valley, where they waited for "Helter Skelter" to happen, which it didn't. They were caught shortly thereafter.

Welp. The story of the Manson family murders is right up there. It didn't help matters that I sat up all night on my very first night in my very first apartment reading it (because I was an idiot).

>Mason has a controversial history. It was originally called Manson, named after the serial killer Charles Manson, but subsequently changed by the distributors Emigre after complaints. The original name was chosen to express extreme opposite emotions – love and hate, beauty and ugliness.

I first heard this in Vincent Bugliosi's book on the Manson Murders, Helter Skelter.

You need to read Helter Skelter like, now. (not sure what kind of link to give you here, I'm sleep deprived, sorry. Not trying to sell anything, amazon was just handy and Idk the etiquette) Here.

https://www.amazon.com/Helter-Skelter-Story-Manson-Murders/dp/0393322238

The excellent DA who convicted Charles Manson. If one wants to learn about court dynamics and strategies, I cannot recommend this book enough. He also wrote a few others. It's a long book and a very detailed account though, but not tiresome. Very engaging for me.

Helter Skelter is a classic of the genre and a good read. By the way, there is no such thing as a non-fiction novel. Novels are, by definition, fictional.

There was no "the general wackiness of the Tate/LaBianca murders."

Read Helter Skelter

> Did the Beatles coin the term Helter Skelter

No. A helter skelter is a spiral slippery dip.

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>and what does Charles Manson have to do with it

https://www.amazon.com/Helter-Skelter-Story-Manson-Murders/dp/0393322238