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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
3.88 AVERAGE
1.09k reviews for:
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
3.88 AVERAGE
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informative
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This was really interesting, but it kind of just felt like a bunch of information loosely packed together. It makes sense because of how long he spent reporting on it that he wanted to have something to show for it, and some of the things he learned were really wild, but it just feels like there were a few too many loose threads.
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All of my sympathies to the author. It's not that this book was had to write, it's that this book was merely impossible to write. He does as good a job as any person could do or has done to write a non-legally actionable cohesive story that is about more than meets the eye.
I can't say I enjoyed it since it mixes the fine detail of academic journalism with sensationalism, but it's a much better book to have read than it is in the reading. Like, it's a slog at times, but it's a worthwhile slog. Again, this book was impossible to write, but the author did a really good job anyway.
I can't say I enjoyed it since it mixes the fine detail of academic journalism with sensationalism, but it's a much better book to have read than it is in the reading. Like, it's a slog at times, but it's a worthwhile slog. Again, this book was impossible to write, but the author did a really good job anyway.
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CHAOS reads like a true crime fever dream, but the scariest part is how much of it is documented fact. I went in hoping for a clear smoking gun, some moment where it all clicked neatly into place. But like O’Neill, I realized the real story is messier, more layered, and more unsettling. He doesn’t make wild claims, he pulls on threads until the whole fabric of the official story starts to unravel.
The connections between the CIA’s mind control programs, FBI coverups, Manson’s baffling treatment by law enforcement, and the strange Hollywood ties whisper conspiracy over and over. It made me feel unhinged at times, but never without reason. And once you see how flimsy the Helter Skelter motive is, you can’t unsee it.
This book is about unanswered questions, deliberate distractions, and the stories we’re fed to keep us from examining the entities entrusted to protect us too closely.
The connections between the CIA’s mind control programs, FBI coverups, Manson’s baffling treatment by law enforcement, and the strange Hollywood ties whisper conspiracy over and over. It made me feel unhinged at times, but never without reason. And once you see how flimsy the Helter Skelter motive is, you can’t unsee it.
This book is about unanswered questions, deliberate distractions, and the stories we’re fed to keep us from examining the entities entrusted to protect us too closely.
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