The Manson Women and Me
Monsters, Morality, and Murder

This book is severely lacking focus: Although it is marketed as being a current portrait of Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel, it is in fact a memoir of Nikki Meredith that contains parts in which she talks to the aforementioned women and some of their relatives. I guess that Meredith's basi......more

Thank you to the publisher Kensington Books who provided an advance reader copy via NetGalley. This book focuses primarily on Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel, members of the notorious Manson family imprisoned since the 1970s involving the Sharon Tate and LaBianca murders in LA. While author......more

W moim odczuciu książka bardziej potrzebna samej autorce niż jakiemukolwiek, zainteresowanemu tematem czytelnikowi. Kończę lekturę zawiedziona, nie zaspokoiwszy mojej ciekawości odnośnie tematu, odnośnie kobiet. Wątki biograficzne szczególnie nietrafione, bo zamiast zachęcać do zrozumienia czy pochy......more

Journalist Nikki Meredith spent more than twenty years getting to know Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie Van Houten and takes a deep dive into studying how they became involved with Charles Manson. She does a very involved look at what it takes to get to the point that they were at when they committed......more