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Summary: Remember who are the TRUE victims!!!
Review: I did agree with the man who said this book is poorly edited, but David Smith did not set out to be a writer. He was just a regular guy until this tragedy happened to him. So I can't criticize him for those mistakes. I honestly believe him when he said he did not write this book to make the money, but instead he felt like it was a step towards the healing process. I feel so sorry for what happened to this man.
The book was a very fast read and very hard to put down from the first page. I really think it was interesting to find out what was actually happening during that 9 day period. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in that story. And, I do agree with David Smith....everyone needs to remember who the REAL victims were.
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Summary: Pure torture
Review: I titled this "pure torture" because the children killed by their mother were pure and were tortured to death -- she watched the car sink into the water. The whole situation also was pure torture for David Smith and his family. I'm sure he still reels from the shock that he could have married someone who would do this to her own child. The writing of this book must've been very painful for David, as is evident in the perfectly-chosen photograph of David on the back jacket of the hardback book. There simply is no excuse for what Susan Smith did. The book answers questions left despite the wide media coverage after Susan finally broke down and admitted to pushing the car in the river. "Why" is a question to which no one will ever receive an acceptable answer, probably not even Susan Smith herself.
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Summary: She Should Never Have Had Children
Review: Susan Smith is the cruellest person I have ever read about. She drove her car into a lake with her two infant sons strapped trustingly in the backseat, then stood on the shore and watched it sink to the murky bottom. She fabricated a story about an alleged carjacker to disguise her sole culpability in this crime. She shed crocodile tears for her estranged husband, her family, friends, the police, the media, and the world, while her murderous secret remained locked inside her noxious heart. She sentenced her boys to death and David to a life of grief. She sits today in prison. She will never on this earth suffer the consequences of what she did.I started crying two pages into this book, and the tears flowed throughout every aching page. David's pain and suffering is so tragically transmitted to readers that we can almost touch it. But only almost. It is so agonising, so raw, so heartrending, and so horrific, that if Susan Smith were in a room with me I would scream "Why?" repeatedly while pounding her body with my fists! As I write this, there is a lump in my throat, my jaw is clenched, and the tears are welling up. It is instinctive; I simply can't help myself. I will never forget this story, this book, David, or beautiful and innocent little Michael and Alex. Nor should anyone else. Forgetting them would be like forgetting what it means to be human.
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Summary: She Should Never Have Had Children
Review: Susan Smith is the cruellest person I have ever read about. She drove her car into a lake with her two infant sons strapped trustingly in the backseat, then stood on the shore and watched it sink to the murky bottom. She fabricated a story about an alleged carjacker to disguise her sole culpability in this crime. She shed crocodile tears for her estranged husband, her family, friends, the police, the media, and the world, while her murderous secret remained locked inside her noxious heart. She sentenced her boys to death and David to a life of grief. She sits today in prison. She will never on this earth suffer the consequences of what she did. I started crying two pages into this book, and the tears flowed throughout every aching page. David's pain and suffering is so tragically transmitted to readers that we can almost touch it. But only almost. It is so agonising, so raw, so heartrending, and so horrific, that if Susan Smith were in a room with me I would scream "Why?" repeatedly while pounding her body with my fists! As I write this, there is a lump in my throat, my jaw is clenched, and the tears are welling up. It is instinctive; I simply can't help myself. I will never forget this story, this book, David, or beautiful and innocent little Michael and Alex. Nor should anyone else. Forgetting them would be like forgetting what it means to be human.
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Summary: Because we care...
Review: This book is not only very easy to read and very difficult to put down, but will also make you appreciate what you have and not take it for granted. David Smith went through hell and back, but what I appreciated most about the book, was that he never slandered his ex-wife the way the rest of the world did. He is indeed an honorable man. Also, the fact that he included some of his most private letters and poems that were sent to him about the boys was very touching....
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Summary: A poorly edited book.
Review: This book was so poorly edited that I could hardly make it through the story. After a few chapters, I couldn't stand it any longer so I took my pen and made corrections to add flow to the story. It was a terrible tragedy, one of which we will never have any sensible answers for, but for David and his story, justice would have best been served by a professional writer.
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Summary: Rips your heart out
Review: This is an excellent book. It brought me to tears. The love this man had for his children and how his life was shattered by this woman--- so tragic.
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: This is an incredible book. Instead of writing a book and claiming he was the perfect guy and he was the victim, David told it how it was (unlike Susan Smith's mother, who also wrote a book that basically blamed everyone but Susan and the Russell family). He admitted that he was at times a bad husband. Both he and Susan were immature in their marraige. He made mistakes. But, he and Susan were perfect parents. Which makes this case all the more puzzling. Why would Susan murder her two boys like this?! I get so angry. At 14, no one my age understands how I feel. All the way through this book, I kept having to stop and ask myself WHY. WHY didn't she give MIchael and Alex to David. WHY didn't she tell anyone that she didn't want those babies anymore. WHY did she drown them? WHY did she let their bodies rot for nine days?! I sympathize for David. It's happy to report that he has a new wife and two more kids (Savannah and Nicholas), but imagine that, everytime one of your kids do something, everytime something new in a tabloid or the mail shows up about the case, the facts come hurling back to you. David, you are one strong man!!!
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: This is an incredible book. Instead of writing a book and claiming he was the perfect guy and he was the victim, David told it how it was (unlike Susan Smith's mother, who also wrote a book that basically blamed everyone but Susan and the Russell family). He admitted that he was at times a bad husband. Both he and Susan were immature in their marraige. He made mistakes. But, he and Susan were perfect parents. Which makes this case all the more puzzling. Why would Susan murder her two boys like this?! I get so angry. At 14, no one my age understands how I feel. All the way through this book, I kept having to stop and ask myself WHY. WHY didn't she give MIchael and Alex to David. WHY didn't she tell anyone that she didn't want those babies anymore. WHY did she drown them? WHY did she let their bodies rot for nine days?! I sympathize for David. It's happy to report that he has a new wife and two more kids (Savannah and Nicholas), but imagine that, everytime one of your kids do something, everytime something new in a tabloid or the mail shows up about the case, the facts come hurling back to you. David, you are one strong man!!!
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Summary: The father?s story
Review: This is the Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina who pushed her car into the lake with her two little boys still strapped in their car seats. This version of the story is written by her husband and the father of the two boys. He tries to be fair and objective in the first person narrative, but he gets in his opinion on everybody involved including his in-laws and the media. He also reveals himself as a loving father, but a guy working two women at the same time. His wife Susan comes across as a kind of sexy but sick psychopath. According to David's story, she killed the boys so that the well-to-do son of a local business owner might be enticed to marry her. He had told her he didn't want a "ready made" family. Kind of like the lions killing the cubs to bring the lionesses into heat, only here the lioness does it herself. If she hadn't confessed, she probably would have gotten away with it, because nobody, including her husband, could believe she'd kill her two cute little boys. There was a lot of sexist sympathy on both sides of this case, but there's no getting around the fact that Susan Smith is a monster. The sad thing is the son of a business man guy probably would never have married her anyway. This is a quick and easy read, but somehow unsatisfying I think because the real depth of the story needs a larger point of view.
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