in one thrift store session

[thrifty hippie]

i found some damn killer books! some of which i traded to my favorite used book seller for a killer book on charles manson!

one stop at value village yeilded me-both the godfather and the sicillian by mario puzo
the second at the one in a close by city yielded

siddhartha and steppenwolf by herman hesse
in my words by malcom x.
a few really nice oversize books on hinduism, and some great "hippie" type books on trancendal meditation.

[Good Buddy]

killer book on charles manson

Ha ha.

Which book about him?

If you like true crime, be on the lookout for:

Mindhunter
Obsession
Journey into Darkness
Anatomy of Motive
& The Cases That Haunt Us.
All of the above books are by John Douglas. he helped pioneer the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, a.k.a. profiling.
Cookie got me a copy of The Cases That Haunt Us and a photo signed by JD and his co-author, Mark Olshaker, when we first started dating.
John Douglas was the creative consultant on The Silence of the Lambs. Scott Glen's character, Jack Crawford, is based on him.

Those books and others by Roy Hazelwood and Robert Ressler are must reads for any true crime buff.

By the way, Charles Manson never killer anyone. He just manipulated his followers into evil deeds. So says John Douglas.

[foutchie]

I don't have the others, but I do have The Cases That Haunt Us - very interesting read!

[SeSo_Says_So]

i found some damn killer books! some of which i traded to my favorite used book seller for a killer book on charles manson!

one stop at value village yeilded me-both the godfather and the sicillian by mario puzo
the second at the one in a close by city yielded

siddhartha and steppenwolf by herman hesse
in my words by malcom x.
a few really nice oversize books on hinduism, and some great "hippie" type books on trancendal meditation.

Very impressed with your Hindu and TM finds. Care to elaborate on the titles? Anything by Satchidananda--he's the Guru who gave the blessing at Woodstock in 1969? Peter Max, the ultimate 60s artist who was (is) a student of Gurudeva's. Do share!

Like the Hesse

My Sicilian heritage is very impressed with your Puzo finds

[thrifty hippie]

im part itallion myself..although my german blood makes me all pale looking..my brothers are both very itallion looking though..

i got the bhagda gita, a book about krishna..i think its the second in a three part set on krishna..i dont remembet the TM books off hand yet because i ended up trading them for some crust metal records

i actually found a copy of helter skelter a while back at goodwill--about the same time i found a very goregeous queen shirt for $1..the manson book i traded for was called "the family" and its waaay better then helter skelter for sure..it goes with my collection of vintage serial killer books that i have found at used book stores and thriftstores, i have a few good ones on ted bundy and the boston strangler..still no book on the zodiac killer though.

[SeSo_Says_So]

GB is a Zodiac fan. I just saw the movie last year on cable. It wasn't bad. My understanding is he was never caught. Is that true?

Kudos on the Queen tee. Is Freddie Mercury in it?

[thrifty hippie]

its got a sort of crest on the front...

http://www.80stees.com/products/Queen_t-shirt_freddie.asp

i found it on the link above..it was a sweet sweet find..on of the main reasons i find thriftstore shopping so rewarding is the hunt and digging up treasures lol..

[mccoysnina]

GB is a Zodiac fan. I just saw the movie last year on cable. It wasn't bad. My understanding is he was never caught. Is that true?

Kudos on the Queen tee. Is Freddie Mercury in it?

Nope, the Zodiac was never caught.  For a time it was thought it might be the guy who turned out to be the Unabomber as he was in SF at some of the same time but he was ruled out.
The last man the SF police thought might be Zodiac died a few years ago.  But DNA on an envelope from a letter to a SF newpsaper ruled that guy out too.
A sdie note, it was a SF schoolteacher and his wife who broke the code used in the Zodiac's letters.  The police had been unable to do it.  This guy was an English teacher I think.  He and his wife did it by assigning the most commons symbols to the most common letters in the alphabet. Once they figured those out, they broke the code in an afternnoon.
Funny what ordinary people can do.
Jeannie
 

[SeSo_Says_So]

its got a sort of crest on the front...

http://www.80stees.com/products/Queen_t-shirt_freddie.asp

i found it on the link above..it was a sweet sweet find..on of the main reasons i find thriftstore shopping so rewarding is the hunt and digging up treasures lol..

I LOVE that shirt! Esp. because of the astrological connection (I'm a Cancercian myself with some Leo in my chart) What fun. Congrats on your groovy find, at a great price.
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Jeannie---what common symbols did they use? Like an apple for A, for example? I'm intrigued.

[Good Buddy]

The school teacher and his wife figured the guy was an ego maniac, so the letter I would be used first and often. Then they figured his next most common word would be kill, so they looked for 4 letter words with double letters at the end. Then they just kept plugging away.

[SeSo_Says_So]

I love how the school teacher and wife figured it out. When you think about it, it was very intuitive of them, wasn't it?

[mccoysnina]

The school teacher and his wife figured the guy was an ego maniac, so the letter I would be used first and often. Then they figured his next most common word would be kill, so they looked for 4 letter words with double letters at the end. Then they just kept plugging away.

They also used certain rules of the English language.  For instance E is one of the most commonly used letters in the English language.  So they looked for the symbol most comonly used with other symbols.  Even the Zodiac couldn't change rules of spelling and grammar.  Pretty ingenous for the couple to figure it out when no one else could.
Jeannie