Garbage People: The Trip to Helter-Skelter and Beyond With Charlie Manson and the Family [Paperback]

John Gilmore (Author), Ron Kenner (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Amok Books; Revised edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878923072
• ISBN-13: 978-1878923073
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,687,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars coming down fast...., February 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Garbage People: The Trip to Helter-Skelter and Beyond With Charlie Manson and the Family (Paperback)

I suppose a fascination with this kind of thing tends to brand one as a sicko, but I'll wear that label with pride, as I am unlikely to shrug it off. One of the better books around on Charlie and those famous family values that so fatally skewered the peace and love generation, though scattered with some strange errors. Written by an outsider to the case, unlike such offerings as Helter Skelter and is a rather more distanced and unsensationalized read as a result. The photos supplied by our author are certainly grisly, and are a further sobering reminder of just how unglamourous such violence is. Not for the squeamish, but then would you be here if you were?

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, July 3, 2002

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Rhiannon Bishop (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garbage People: The Trip to Helter-Skelter and Beyond With Charlie Manson and the Family (Paperback)

Don't attempt to try to track down Garbage People. It has been released under "Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family by John Gilmore, Ron Kenner".

Save your money. Don't bother with this book. See my review of "Manson: The unholy trail" for more information.

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible book. Vague. Exaggerated., December 29, 2010

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J. Cook "Scabboy" (Buffalo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garbage People: The Trip to Helter-Skelter and Beyond With Charlie Manson and the Family (Paperback)

Stay away from this pile of crap. It's a waste of time and recycles information and exaggerates other information. The book has three chapter on Beausoleil, which was interesting but skips over key Family members like Squeaky and Mary and only focuses on the more known ones. The book obviously intentionally uses adjectives like "Hypnotic" and "evil" over and over again to make innocent situations seem evil. It's just horrible tabloid-esque writing.

It's too bad because the book has some useful information wedged in piles of crap.

The writer obviously had no clue about the case other than the silly "Helter Skelter" fairytale. He skips over key people like Deane Morehouse as simply an "admirer who gave Manson a piano." and Mary Brunner as "Marie, a pregnant girl..."