Satan's Slaves

Rating:
Summary: Manson: The 10¢ Version
Review: Hilarious, hysterical screed about "hippies", "Manson" and the decadent California subculture in the late sixties by a mysterious Canadian-Brit pulp author supposedly masquerading as a journalist. Wallowing in the kind of salacious, dime novel prose he so willingly condemns the press for using to create the Manson-as-icon, he takes on that annoyingly presumptuous "voice of the characters" style of journalism that hypnotizes mass market readers. Surprisingly, as a quickie-cash-in, the only factual errors he makes are very minor, but Manson scholars will find only silliness here and no one but pure collectors need consider it a necessary buy, unless you happen upon a 1970 1st edition of course.

Rating:
Summary: Manson: The 10? Version
Review: Hilarious, hysterical screed about "hippies", "Manson" and the decadent California subculture in the late sixties by a mysterious Canadian-Brit pulp author supposedly masquerading as a journalist. Wallowing in the kind of salacious, dime novel prose he so willingly condemns the press for using to create the Manson-as-icon, he takes on that annoyingly presumptuous "voice of the characters" style of journalism that hypnotizes mass market readers. Surprisingly, as a quickie-cash-in, the only factual errors he makes are very minor, but Manson scholars will find only silliness here and no one but pure collectors need consider it a necessary buy, unless you happen upon a 1970 1st edition of course.