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enlightening

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 23, 2022

It's too bad this killer didn't get the reward he deserves. I believed he was guilty at the time of the murders and this book reinforces my belief.

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Tree 374

Interesting read.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 15, 2018

The book arrived in new, clean, and excellent condition. I finished the book in 2 days. He lies and lies, but that's OJ for you. The only relevant content to the title is the confession chapter.

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Ruby Florence

To expensive for Financial gain

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 2, 2016

The book is very expensive now the Goldman family receive the money for it.
I do t like people gaining money from death.
I hope to god nothing happens to me but if it does I hope my sister doesn't write books about it for Financial gain.
The book has been edited to make OJ look like a lier, I prefer the truth.
The goldmans have stooped so low and stole of OJ pushed him to break the law.
I won't be buying goldmans sisters book either because it will feed her to keep talking about that awful night Nicole was murdered has she no respect for Nicole Browns children they lost a mum.

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Tamster

Interest Lost

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 17, 2017

I really wanted to read this book, but now that I know the Goldman family gets the money and have added to it, I'm no longer interested. I wanted the original version but sadly that's no longer possible. Too bad.

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WHY IS THIS IN NON FICTION

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 19, 2007

This book is fiction , totally fiction.
The goldmen family are just money grabbers.

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One of the Worst Books I've Ever Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2016

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Terrible! OJ writes as bad as a first grader and most of it is fillers, repetitions, etc. On a page you'll find the SAME WORD on their repeated over 30 times. Talk about annoying! I feel as if my IQ shrunk significantly putting myself through this book. He's psychotic, negligent, and takes zero responsibility... for anything. There's not really much of a confession. The ghost writer just did it for the money -- and to be honest, he's not much of a writer ! It's a terrible book and OJ didn't even write it. The ghost writer just wrote down what "OJ said." It's bizarre. You pay millions of dollars to entrust a ghost writer and publishing company for a significant "confession story" and they turn out with this crap?! I will never again read a book that is any less than 5 stars. I'm so mad that I even purchased this book. OJ just consistently repeats himself over and over again, and it's annoying. It's like ghetto talk and slang and I can't believe I read 300 pages of it. His machism makes him appear so great, powerful, sassy, "the man" which is synonymous with black rappers and black people in general. If you're looking for a book that constantly has quotes that say, "Man... A'ight; I ain't... A'int nobody... Nicole is crazy..." Or the famous Goldman quotes "THIS BOOK IS OUR JUSTICE." Well, first of all, out of almost 380 pages there's 350+ of them about OJ talking about how crazy Nicole is. And then there's about 3 pages of Ron trying to confront "OJ and his mystery friend Charlie" and the rest of the 27 pages are these inserts in the front and back of the book of these random people who try to affirm the Goldmans that they're doing a right thing by profiting off this book... And they're just as bad as OJ! All they do is repeat themselves! We get it, it's very hard to lose a son, especially by murder. Yet it happens numerous times A DAY throughout the world, and those families don't get the opportunity like this to continuously profit off this! Having lost a son for the Goldman family is both a blessing and a curse it seems. If the Goldman family wanted to give a tribute to Ron, then why not make the book about RON'S life with the 3 page murder sequence confession by OJ instead of publishing all the gross affairs of Nicole and OJ! Like my God, HarperCollins reviewed all of this numerous times before publishing?! This book could have been less than 1/3 of what it is now. The rest is all fillers of bologna! I can't believe I took the time out of my day to read this. I wouldn't suggest supporting any of this. Like Johnny Cohcran said, it's a media circus, and EVERYONE involved in this case, from the families, to the friends, to the judge, to the lawyers, to the police investigators, to the jury, and to the millions watching it unfold all contributed to all of this being blown WAY out of proportion and letting the drama ensue the way it did, and the way it leaves all of us etched with this firm reminder in America's history.

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ROE

Nothing new, real or honest

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2017

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Upon hearing about this book, I was disgusted. "How can people help him make money off murder?" Swore I'd never read it, then (all these years later) I found out that the Goldmans get the money. So I bought it.

And I read it. Unsurprisingly, the best part of the book is Dominick Dunne's afterword. There is something from Kim Goldman, as well, which was pretty well done.

The "OJ" part of the book is extraordinarily disappointing. I thought it would be a confession, much like Ted Bundy's confession - honesty cloaked as a hypothetical. (Odd how lies are presented as truths and truths are presented as lies. It must be exhausting to be these guys, all those mental gymnastics.)

Basically, the OJ story is just BS and not honest at all. Nicole is presented as a decent girl who, over the years, becomes more and more demanding, emotionally draining and irrational.

OJ presents himself as the perfect, stand-up guy who is so put-upon by this whack job, Nicole. He does everything he can do and is always doing the right thing. Even when he lost his temper (which was, of course, all Nicole's fault and ONLY happened those times that were recorded on 911 calls), it was because he was such a good dad and worried about his kids - FOR THE CHILDREN! - he was pushed harder than any tolerant, rational good parent and decent man could stand. Who could blame him for his outburst?!

Poor OJ.

There is a brief description of the moments leading up to the murder, which is all BS. Completely, ridiculously fabricated. OJ reports that Ron Goldman was preparing to fight him, then OJ (of course) blacks out. The next thing he remembers is being covered in blood, seeing two bodies and wondering what happened and who did that?

So very, very stupid. Even when presented with the opportunity to tell the truth while cloaking it in hypotheticals, OJ still lies. He must really have convinced himself that there is some story that will explain it all, have him coming across as the good guy and make people not just believe him, but like him and admire him.

Even Ted Bundy told the truth in the end. Not OJ. The guy just cannot tell the truth.

No insight into the mind of a batterer-turned-murderer. No honesty about what he thought or felt. Nothing real. At all.

The only thing I learned from this book is that OJ, even after so much time to do it, isn't smart enough to come up with a decent, close-to-believable lie. So, he's dumber than I suspected he was. That's it.

The ONLY reason to buy the book is because you want to throw a few bucks to the Goldmans. There really isn't anything worth reading.

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JimElzie

If he did it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2007

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Your writer finds it extraordinary and at best morbidly confusing to experience the if I DID IT printed trash.

Additional preparation for this widely considered malicious missive was had by carefully viewing Lance Ito's big show, the Simpson trial, in its entirety. Mercifully something ticked within that prepared me to expect the astounding verdict of not guilty. A key prosecution witness and involved police official lied in such way as to mightily support the defense claim and create jury nullification.

That a freed man uses such material for his book leads one to wonder the motive for such that produced lots of boring information about a troubled marriage.

The book reveals that Simpson has no empathy, a filthy mouth, and set out to make money on the event that so divided the races in this nation. Aside from the bizarre chapter of the actual murder, the only thing within the book worth while to excite morbid curiosity, which Simpson fought mightily to suppress as an afterthought, one might draw no conclusion other than Simpson was an immoral self centered headiness. One with such affliction might take everlasting great joy in literally telling such horror almost exactly as it happened.

In spite of outrage by so many, I did not find the book the horror others seem to feel. It is the very notion and existence of such that is likely most offensive but consider, nothing associated with Simpson can outdo the slaughter of two people and the butchered trial.

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Jeffery L. Smith

Not much new ground here.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 2, 2007

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All I learned from this book was that Simpson blames his wife for everything even more than I suspected. The murder scene is pretty much what I expected. The only thing that surprised me a bit was that he admitted killing the two of them only to be mortified that people thought he could possibly do such a thing. The emperor is wearing no clothes but cannot believe that people think he is naked? Is this not saying that he feels empowered to kill people because of who he is? The people who knew that he committed the murders are probably the only ones to read the book. Those who maintain his innocence don't want to know that he did it. I'm glad that the Goldman family will get some part of my purchase price, but I doubt that the egomaniacal Simpson will ever feel guilty about what he did. Maybe that's what I was looking for in this book...some sign that he was sorry for what he did. Instead, all I got was several hundred pages of why his wife deserved it.

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Clara J. McGill

Piece of trash

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2013

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If I could give it no stars and still state my opinion I would. I downloaded the Kindle version because I wanted to know, after all these years, how OJ "confessed" and exactly HOW he did it. (As I believe this is a confessional) But from the very beginning of the book it is nothing but an abusers account of how he was always the victim in their fights and disagreements, she was always the aggressor, how he had to "restrain" her from hitting him and that caused her bruises. It just goes on and on. A pathetic story we have heard so many times before about how the victim incurs so many accidents in the course of an abuser trying to hold her off. It was always her fault that she ended up black and blue and eventually dead. I got so sick of it that I just skipped to the chapter where he did it, read that, then deleted the book from my Kindle. All gone. Worthless waste of money that I can only justify because proceeds go to the Goldman Family as restitution in their civil case against OJ Simpson.

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Coolfire

Goldman family took over book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2012

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When I got it and saw that the Goldman family had taken over the book and put their imprint on it, as well as having reduced the size of the "IF" of the title to read "I did it," ... I threw the book in the garbage. I watched the entire trial, start to finish of each day, and agree with the unanimous jury of not guilty. It angered me how the media misrepresented what happened at the trial on a daily basis. I fully realize that most disagree with me, but then I watched and did not depend on the media for analysis or reporting - same as the jury. That the Goldmans took over this book, putting their view on it was misleading and very close to misrepresentation of authorship. I fully sympathize with the Goldman family for their loss, but their crusade against Simpson should have been aimed at finding the killer of their daughter, and they should have actually paid attention of the facts brought out at the trial, none of which pointed to Simpson when examined.

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Margaret Kounkel

Truly a pathetic attempt to make the reader think he (O

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2016

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First of all, this book should not be classified as true crime, as 90% of it is fiction created by Simpson to try to exonerate himself. The writing is so biased and stilted, I had a hard time continuing the reading of it. It is completely self-serving as he paints himself as a devoted father and exemplary husband. His bashing of Nicole's character is so transparent. The crime scene itself is so unbelievable since he adds an accomplice, Charley who was there to witness the blood bath. Really? All the hours and hours of investigations by police and detectives and they never came up with this person? Insulting to the reader's intelligence. Truly a pathetic attempt to make the reader think he (O.J.) is not the monster we all know him to be. Disgusting. I got this book for a very cheap price, but regret giving one cent to his "cause". Shameful and disgusting drivel!

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