Sharon Tate: A Life

The details of her life.

Ed Sanders does it again with this Sharon Tate book. I felt he held back some out of respect for the family and kudos to him for having class and integrity. Either way Sharon Tate A Life was an interesting read but the price does need to be lower.

This is a very god book with a lot of details about Sharon's life before Manson. I found out a lot about her that was in no other book A++++

Wife enjoyed reading it.

Ed Sander's 1971 book The Family, is considered by many to be the best book written on the Manson case. It's not. It's actually gore porn written by a disillusioned poet eager to find somebody to blame for the death of his beloved hippie movement. While that book and his new one, Sharon Tate: A life does touch upon the truth to various degrees, Sanders allowed himself to get lost in the woods with tales of Satanic cults, snuff films, animal sacrifice and other unsavory topics. Sharon Tate: A Life offers very little new information. A great deal of it is complete word-for-word rehashing of The Family, a book which is long out of date. Among the the few new revelations that prevent me from giving it a one star review, is Shahrokh Hatami admitting after all these years that despite what he said at the trial, he had no recollection of Charles Manson ever paying a visit to 10050 Cielo Drive on March 23rd, 1969 and that his saying so was done out of pressure from prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Col. Paul Tate's private investigator. Myself and many others always knew that story was a cinematic fabrication of the prosecution to place Charles Manson at the scene of the crime, while also serving the purpose to conceal the true nature of his relationship with Terry Melcher. The book also goes a bit deeper than others have when it comes to the marriage of Sharon and Roman Polanski not being the fairy tale it's often portrayed as being in the mainstream press. While a certain degree of respect has to be shown to Sanders for his fearlessness to explore and consider alternative motives for the murders, he ultimately fails by ending the book by strongly suggesting one that is just as unrealistic, if not more, than the one Bugliosi presented at the trial. That Sharon Tate was targeted by a Satanic cult because she "knew too much" and links the assassination of Robert Kennedy to the plot. The Satanic cult he is referring to, but never names, is of course The Process - Church of the Final Judgement. The irony here is that he and others who buy into the theory of the Process being a nefarious cult of criminals hellbent on bringing about the end of the world, is that they themselves are stooges of a very real cult: The Church of Scientology, who implicated The Process with a press release as part of one of their "fair game" smear campaigns. One can't help but to wonder if Sanders heavy suggestion of such a theory is, like the original rumor, spite work for their successfully suing him over the mean spirited chapter he dedicated to them in the first edition of The Family. If you want a more in-depth biography of Sharon Tate the person, I'd recommend Greg King's detailed, yet somewhat play-it-safe biography.

I anxiously awaited this book from Ed Sanders. His The Family book was epic though jumbled and in need of an index. I was highly disappointed. Much of this is speculation and basically info he had in the Family. The beginning sections on Sharon left a lot to be desired and his oo-ee-oos that ran rampant in the Family were replaced by something concerning quicksand. The charm of the style of writing in The Family was not present in this book, and one can find a conspiracy in everything if one looks hard enough. I was really hoping for some revelations, and not the biblical kind. I did not find any. I will keep the book for my collection but it is one that I will not reread.

I'll go two stars on this biography because two of its chapters were interesting. Had I wanted extensive information on her snake in the grass husband, Roman Polanski, I would have invested the money that way. In the first part of the text, Sanders justaposes their two lives, which I found annoying to the extreme. There is some good text about her early career aspirations, but again, Sanders clouds the account with more information than I wanted about Polanski. Also, if you are hoping for poignant pictures, forget it. Sanders apparently could not get past the copywriters on the photos that are right on the Internet, so he got a sketch artist to draw cheesy images. Unless this book is at a super bargain price, I wouldn't waste the money. As it is, this edition is on its way to the thrift shop.

Ed Sanders writes a biography of the beautiful actress who died a cruel death at the hands of the Manson cult. Sanders expands his research digging for the truth of the reason Tate died at such a young age. Was it because she overheard something that Sirhan Sirhan did ? Did a English Satanic cult order and pay for the hit? Sanders continually to valiantly find the truth.

I enjoyed the book. However it didn't tell me anything that I haven't read before about Sharon. Apart from some L A gossip that can't be substantiated. What I did like is that the book was mainly about Sharon, as a lot of the books I have read were more concerned with Manson. If you want to read about the murders, then Helter Skelter is the book for you. If you want to know more about Sharon and her family. I would recommend the book restless souls by Sharon's family members. This book is good if you don't know much about Sharon or the psychopathic murderers who took her life, and the life of her baby. It was spoiled for me by little snippets like telling us when Sharon bought her first vibrator. Why would I want to know that? I'm pretty sure that Sharon wouldn't want to see that in print . Secondly, the author constantly makes reference to life being like quick sand, over and over again. I'm not sure what he's trying to tell us? Other than life is like quick sand!

Fantástico !!!

Ordine arrivato prima del previsto, molto soddisfatta.

Finally there is a book on Sharon Tate, the victim of the horrendous crime perpatrated by Chatlie Manson and his family.