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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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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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Summary: Remember who are the TRUE victims!!!
Review: This was such a sad bad. Like David Smith said, "Remember who are the true victims in all this, Miicheal and Alex, NOT Susan Smith! It was a good and fast reading and I a book is so much better when it's write by a person who the story concern them and not from a famous writer, is even better when the writer is not a writer, so from people who said this book is good but the editing is bad, I don't see what is bad, I thought the book was very good and it comming from the heart and soul to who that real story had happen, you can feel his pain! Everybody was saying how Susan was too good for David, my God it was the other way around, David was too good for Susan. Susan was picture as like a hot, sexy girl, sorry to me she look like a ordinary house wife and kinda chubby, she come from the South right? Yeah she do look like redneck, the way she dress and wear her hair are out of fashion even in 90th, well I am out of context here but can't help saying that to me see doesn't look hot stuff and one of the book with her glasses and her hair pine up she look like a geek! Like David Smith said, the two persons who love her the most, (their kids), she had killed them, how can a mother do this to her own children and said she love them? Why David Smith want so much the death penalty for Susan, if she got a soul she suffer much more in prison, well if she got one. She seem only to think for herself and feel pity for herself. Killing her children because she was in love with a guy that didn't want a family allready made, so she killed her kids and to have the pity of the man she love she make a a big lie that a man took over her car and push her out put kept the kids. Did she really think she could live with the rest of her life with that story and have back the man she love? She was stupid, he was also having other affair and like I said Susan is no hot thing, why he would go with her? Still a part of me pity her, if she really was having depression it can make you do stupid things, yeah maybe she was really insane!
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Summary: A Tear Jerker
Review: When I read this book; I couldn't help but get teary eyed. Unless you've been where David was, you couldn't possibly understand. Those boys didn't deserve for this to happen but are now sitting in the throne room of God.
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Summary: A highly recommended book re: the Susan Smith story ...
Review: With the recent Andrea Yates story being in the media, I couldn't help but think back on the Susan Smith story and recently read this book. It was an emotional book to read. I can remember so well watching Susan Smith on TV in 1994 and at first believing her story, but then I started doubting her. When she finally confessed, I was horrified for Michael and Alex Smith. The thought of two little ones dying in the cold water alone and crying for their mother, who put them there, is almost too much to bear. I feel such sympathy for David Smith. The story of his marriage is difficult to read at times ... the games that David and Susan played were just ridiculous, and both of them were unfaithful in their marriage. They were really two children playing at being married, I think ... they were very young when Susan got pregnant with Michael and had to get married. At Susan's trial, a lot about her life came out ... her father's suicide, abuse by her stepfather, a mother that didn't protect her, depression and earlier suicide attempts. The girl is clearly mentally ill. Now I've heard that two prison guards have been fired for having sex with her; the discovery was made when Susan visited the prison infirmary and was found to have a veneral disease. It is a very sad situation for both families of Michael and Alex Smith, and I know that both families miss those little boys every day. The other night I saw David Smith on CNN. He cried when he talked about Michael and Alex and said he will never forget them. He is happily remarried and has a new baby girl, and said that when she was born, he promised her he wouldn't be afraid to love her. I was very touched by that and hope he will find happiness and peace in his new life. I also hope that Susan Smith and her family will find forgiveness and peace, too.
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