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Hardcover
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Dominick Dunne
ISBN13: 9780825305887
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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"I'm going to tell you a story you've never heard before, because no one knows this story the way I know it."
The opening line of "If I Did It: Confessions of A Killer" In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges. The victims' families brought a civil case against Simpson, which found him liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to satisfy the civil judgment in part. The Goldman family views the book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson's original manuscript, approved by him, with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary.
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| OJ Confession |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This book gives the whole inside on OJ and how he murdered his ex-wife, He writes the book, in my opinion the exact way he got away with murder..... Justice is what he is now recieving..... God works in mysterious ways....
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| just had to know |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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very easy read. almost too easy. but then again, look who wrote it. curiosity got the best of me. but i saw that Dominick Dunne wrote the afterword so i bought it. and not a penny goes to OJ. yeah.
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| Kind of Boring |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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To be honest, it was kind of a boring book. It starts off with a message from the Goldman family about how the book was about justice and not money (even though it ultimately is ...about money) but I sympathize with them and then also another intro. by the ghostwriter about how O.J. tried to pass this off as something that was pushed on O.J. by everyone else as a confession when it reality it all came from his head and wasn't anyone's fabrication to slader his name. That really gives you (the reader) an idea of how gone from reality O.J. Simpson really is and how in the coming chapters he makes himself into a martyr. Then comes the "If I Did It" book itself. It was nice for the first couple of chapters to get a background on Nicole Brown and O.J. Simpson but it turned into so much egotistical and heavily bias drama. Nicole does this, Nicole does that, police come and go, news, OJ and Nicole split up and get together and then love and hate each other on and off and on and off for the majority of the book to make O.J. look like a really good guy in a misunderstanding. Then comes the "hypothetical" chapter that is really graphic and may disturb some readers. This chapter is really written well and ties together the book and ending but is really the only part worth reading. The fear, the rush, the down to the detail description makes one wonder "Wow, either O.J. Simpson is a brilliant writer or maybe something else is going on here". The end is a bit sad and I even sympathize with O.J.'s grief a little. If he did it or not it really messed him up. After the end there is a bit of info. about the trial itself and some resources to check out if you are either the victim or related to the victim of a horrible crime and seeking justice. It was worth reading to me as I didn't know that much about O.J. but if you know about his history more or less all you really need to read is that one chapter.
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| book arrived on time. didn't like the book. |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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The book arrived according to the time and date stated by the seller. DIdn't like the book because it was a lie from OJ. He didn't confess to anything in the book, still supporting the lie that he is innocent.
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| Iv made my "Own" Conclusion |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Im a 25 year old legal studies student who just recently became fascinated in doing my "own" research in the OJ Simpson case. Iv ordered several books on the subject simply because I was too young for the trial, hopefully one day that trial will be available to watch in it's entirety. Out of the books Iv ordered this was the first one I received I read it with a complete open mind and came to my "own" conclusion. First of all, I don't go by the media or whats popular or not, I research by myself, for myself and on my own. Second I disagree with the Goldman family being entitled to anything that had to do with this book. And Third I think OJ was very mis represented by the media, and everyone bought into it. It's clear the chapter about the killings was fiction, not a "confession" However I feel the rest of the book was dictated from the heart and that Nicole Simpson was probably what she was claimed to be in this book. It's clear as water that regardless he loved this woman with everything he had. Im not an OJ fan, nor do I think he's an angel in fact I approve of him being in prison for the Nevada crimes, but he was found not guilty in a court of law for these crimes and until Im proven Otherwise Im convinced he is innocent. that is my "own" Unbiased conclusion
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