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May 10th, 2008
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Um... Can I Have A Glass Of Holy Fuck?
I've always admired Vincent Bugliosi as one of the greatest legal crime writers of all time. His book Helter Skelter was a masterful look at how you need to sum up the prosecution for what could have been a sketchy murder case. Outrage was a thorough indictment of why O.J. Simpson was guilty, guilty, guilty, and how the prosecution bungled what should have been an open-and-shut case.

I figured with the release of his lapbreaking tome The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (which, yes, convinced me it was just Lee Harvey Oswald), he would have set his sights on the biggest murder case of all time and be done. How can you top JFK, I thought? You can't do it. That's as big as there is, right?

But he's managed. Seriously. Trust me, just click on the link. And if he does this with his usual precision to detail, I'll be there reading it on Day One.

(Tell me I'm full of it)

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From:[info]angelbob
Date:May 10th, 2008 06:37 pm (UTC)
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See, with that lead-up, I immediately thought, "ooh! He's doing a murder trial summary for Jesus?"

I'm not even religious, I just think it would make an awesome book. I'd buy a copy.
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From:[info]mattador
Date:May 10th, 2008 07:36 pm (UTC)
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That was my *exact* thought.
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From:[info]mazlynn
Date:May 11th, 2008 02:44 am (UTC)
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Me too. That would be awesome.
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From:[info]zpdiduda
Date:May 10th, 2008 06:39 pm (UTC)
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Holy fuck. *preorders*
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From:[info]lysystratae
Date:May 10th, 2008 06:42 pm (UTC)
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oooooooooooooooo
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From:[info]theinfamousmom
Date:May 10th, 2008 07:11 pm (UTC)
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Got my name on the hold list at the library. They haven't even got the book yet and I'm sixth in line.

Although I plowed through the JFK book and came out thinking he was full of crap, I think he did a fine job on his other books.
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From:[info]merle_
Date:May 10th, 2008 07:53 pm (UTC)
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Um... Can I Have A Glass Of Holy Fuck?

Based solely on the post subject, my first thought was "they only give out the body and blood, not the semen". That probably counts as my sacrilege for the day, if not the entire week...
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From:[info]calliopepurple
Date:May 10th, 2008 08:24 pm (UTC)
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Thank you for making me choke on my bean burrito.
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From:[info]mysterg
Date:May 10th, 2008 08:28 pm (UTC)
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Interesting; not my usual fair, but I might actually check that out:)
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From:[info]jeffpalmatier
Date:May 10th, 2008 08:31 pm (UTC)
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I'd love to read Bugliosi's analysis of the JFK assassination but I doubt I'll buy it until I can get my hands on a less expensive copy. In any case, Gerald Posner's much shorter Case Closed convinced me that it was Oswald and Oswald alone who killed JFK.

It's surprising that I still haven't bought or even read anything else by Bugliosi since I've reread Helter Skelter a lot of times over the years.
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From:[info]thetathx1138
Date:May 10th, 2008 09:55 pm (UTC)
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"Case Closed" is superb, no doubt about it, but Bugliosi's book is highly useful because it's basically every bit of research in one place.

I will be intensely curious to see the reaction to this book, but I probably won't be reading it unless the reviews are stellar.
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From:[info]ijk
Date:May 10th, 2008 09:07 pm (UTC)
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[keanu] Whoah [/keanu]
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From:[info]crimson_planet
Date:May 10th, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC)
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I'm disappointed to find you weren't talking about space-rock instrumental band Holy Fuck (or Holy F or Holy F***).

Because they rock. By the glass, by the bucket, or by the drop.

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From:[info]meyerweb.com
Date:May 10th, 2008 10:40 pm (UTC)
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Okay, so what is it actually about? As in, for what particular maurder(s) is Bugliosi prosecuting? The title gives me nothing.
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From:[info]robyn_ma
Date:May 11th, 2008 12:14 am (UTC)
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'In 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers [it is now more than 4000 GIs killed in Iraq] fighting the war in Iraq. Bugliosi sets forth the legal architecture and incontrovertible evidence that President Bush took this nation to war in Iraq under false pretenses -- a war that has not only caused the deaths of American soliders but also over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children [the Lancet survey projected out now would make that more than a million dead]: cost the United States over one trillion dollars thus far with no end in sight: and alienated many American allies in the Western world.'
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From:[info]jaxia
Date:May 11th, 2008 01:42 am (UTC)
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Thanks for posting -- I, too, was wondering who was murdered.
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From:[info]jacobford
Date:May 11th, 2008 05:54 am (UTC)
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But wasn't the JFK book meticulously researched and therefore incredibly long? At 350-odd pages, the George Bush trial seems rather, well, brief.
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From:[info]particle_man6
Date:May 11th, 2008 11:42 am (UTC)
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LIkely it is an easier case to make.
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From:[info]blairwitchgreen
Date:May 11th, 2008 10:02 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, I was pretty shocked at the bold title, and agree-- I'm there! However I will make sure to pay cash and decline to use my Borders Rewards card...
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