Just finished reading 'The Girls' by Emma Cline, and started 'White Bicycles' by Joe Boyd. Besides covering the same era (and being endlessly fascinating), they couldn't be more different. 🚲'White Bicycles' is the autobiography of Joe Boyd, who seemed to have been there for every major event in rock and roll history, from bringing American blues artists to European audiences, to being Dylan's sound engineer at the Newport Folk Festival, to running the hippie club where Pink Floyd were the house band. And this is only halfway through the book! I can't wait to read the rest. 🎸🎶 Emma Cline's novel, on the other hand, is an account of a teenage girl mesmerized by the older, cooler hippie chicks of a barely-fictionalized Manson Family. This is the only piece of Manson-related media I've ever come across that gives a plausible explanation for what would lead young girls to commit such brutal murders on command. And it's such a horrifyingly mundane explanation. Highly recommended. 🚺🔪
