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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi

4.05 AVERAGE

hanwithabook's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark informative slow-paced

emilyelizabethwriter's review against another edition

5.0

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Not for the faint of heart, this nonfiction book read like a novel. Although a dense read, it kept me captivated the whole time.

pennylan3's review against another edition

3.5

dark informative tense slow-paced

lbb220's review against another edition

4.25

dark tense fast-paced

box_wine_hero's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Pregnancy

lily_benavides's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced

roses_are_rosa's review against another edition

4.0

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This was really intense but super interesting. I would probably not recommend it as an introduction to the case, but since I have already read about it a lot beforehand I really appreciated all the information. I feel like despite it being so detailled and documenting police and court proceedings it was hardly ever boring or dry. 
While the subject matter itself is probably enough of a disclaimer, readers should still be aware that there are very graphic descriptions of murder and physical and psychological abuse in here. 

aliciagoeser's review against another edition

3.75

dark informative medium-paced

kabate6590's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative slow-paced

jbaysinger_1069's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder