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Hardcover
Publisher: Dove Books
Mike Walker
Format: Illustrated
Now the world can hear Nicole Brown Simpson speak in her own voice, in this private diary. Here is a tragic story of a woman trapped in a violent cycle of fear and abuse. 2 cassettes.
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| "She said, he said," and then a hand grenade dropped in the middle of the floor |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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Even if one were inclined to give Ms. Resnick the benefit of the doubt here (which I find it difficult to do), this expose about her closest friend -- as her own kind of self-proclaimed martyrdom and savior of abused women -- still leaves all of her motives up in the air and in serious question.
Was she just trying to get back at O.J. because she was sure (before the fact) that he was the murderer? Was this book just a cheap maneuver to profit from her friend's death? Is it indeed an honest attempt to warn other women about the perils of domestic violence? Or did she just want to share with the world what the glamorous life in "Hollywood's fast lane really is like?
Judging by most of the women reviewers, only a handful trusted Ms. Resnick's motives. But as a reader, I believe that her motives are all beside the point when one considers the full context of their respective lives: That is to say, when one considers how empty and debauched their respective lives were. And while we have no choice but to accept at face value at least a large portion of this "steamy" and "seamy" expose because that is all there is: There is nothing else here? It is all indiscriminate sex and drugs and "playing men against each other," etc? And even though both of these women are mothers, there is no normal life for them or their kids here?
And therein lies the problem: Judging by this context of emptiness and Ms. Resnick's own words, one can only conclude that she and her best friend were just a couple of "sluts," "hos" to use the ghetto vernacular, plain and simple, nothing more nothing less. Given the nature of the life she and Nicole shared, their whole lifestyle in the "Hollywood fast lane," was devastatingly empty, mindless and debauched. These women were lost in a haze of indiscriminate sex, drugs, and mind games being played on men. That is like walking around with a loaded gun pointed at one's own head and asking someone to pull the trigger. This is not to suggest that that alone is enough to justify one of them being murdered, but red lights were flickering in every direction, and red flags were going up all around them, yet, inexorably and according to Ms. Resnick's own account, together they just plunged full speed ahead.
A sure measure of this emptiness is that Nicole's impulse towards self-destruction was topped only by O.J.'s own (apparent) double murder. If Ms. Resnick can be believed, Nicole dropped a hand grenade right at her own feet and asked OJ to pull the pin when she began screwing a "younger most virile version" of OJ: his best friend Marcus Allen. Even after repeatedly being warned by Faye herself, and knowing that OJ had her under tight surveillance, Nicole began a torrid sex affair with OJ's best friend and was "doing him" on the day she was killed, according to Ms. Resnick.
At best one can only conclude from Ms. Resnick's story that: nothing from nothing leaves nothing: Nicole's self-destructive impulses led inexorably to her death. OJ's led to him having to spend the better part of the rest of his life behind bars, and Ms. Resnick's? Who knows? Marcus denied it all and is still doing TV sports color commentary. Has he written a book yet? What a disgusting mess? Two stars
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| Faye Where Are You? |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Are you OK? I know it's hard to lose a best a friend or 2 or 3....
Please know Nick heard/read you.!
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| I liked this book |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This book was well written. It was about a lifestyle very different from most people. It is Faye Resnicks perception of events surrounding Nicoles life. I thought it was very insightful and a good read.
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| Shockingly truthful and real. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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People who thrash and despise this book fail to understand something--Faye Resnick wrote it in order to warn other women involved in violent and demoralizing relationships about what CAN happen to them if they remain in these tragic relationships. The stories about O.J.'s viciousness and cruelty toward Nicole and his ruthless manipulation of her family are (in retrospect) 100% true. I admire Ms. Resnick very much because of her courage and willingness to tell and talk about truths that many were not prepared to face or accept. This book is as real as can be and highly recommended for anyone wanting to know more about the painfully tragic relationship between Nicole and O.J. and the events that led up to this horrific double-murder.
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| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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I thought this book would be a chronical of Nicole and OJ's relationship from the get-go, and how things eventually devolved to the sad state they were in at the end, but instead, it focused more on Faye Resnick's scatterbrained rantings about restaurants, clubs, sexual partners, vacations, and utterly soulless, vapid "friendships"...all provided in non-chronological order! There was relatively little information about the relationship between the famous couple: strange in a book that purports to be about that very subject. I feel sorry for Faye and Nicole, because I come away from reading this disjointed, rambling, bizarre account of seemingly disconnected events with the impression that both of them were seriously emotionally damaged women. So at least that was conveyed well.
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