Border Crossing: A Novel

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Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the life of someone whose past, as well as his future, he feels a sense of responsibility towards. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny Miller was tried for murder as a ten-year-old on the basis of Tom's testimony, and assessment of him as a psychologist and an expert witness. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his life—beginning with his past—Tom is drawn into a lonely, soul-searching reinvestigation of the child murderer's case.

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of the *Regeneration* trilogy comes a probing, suspenseful portrait of a pyschologist entranced by his subject: a young man who has grown up guilty of murder.

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excellent job - format may be improved.......2007-04-08

I have loved this engrossing novel ever since reading the book one year ago (hurrah for Pat Barker). The audiobook format offers new possibilities of enjoying it when hands are busy but brains are not. And, of course James Wilby's voice adds a lot of pleasure. I was going to give it 5 stars, but the only thing spoiling the picture is the audiocassette format - a CD would have been easier to use.

Psychological thriller.......2004-10-03

The only other Pat Barker novels I've read were those of the Regeneration trilogy, and it's easy to recognize her style in "Border Crossing", once again the reader is taken into the intimate relationship between a psychologist and his patient. This one does not have the same scope as the trilogy, really just a novella or extra long short story with only 216 pages, a page turning psychological thriller that's easy to read in a night..

One day while walking by a river Tom witnesses an accident and rescues a man from drowning. Coincidentally this man turns out to be Danny, a child murderer now released who once was evaluated by Tom to judge if he was fit to stand trial in an adult court. Tom decides to begin therapy sessions with Danny to help him understand his past, and more questions are raised than answered. Readers that like nice clear cut endings might be disappointed with this, what is good and what is evil are very ambiguous in this story; and certainly will give pause for thought about child criminals, especially children who kill.

I gave this a 4 star rating because of the plot line involving his wife - while interesting this was somewhat disconnected from the story. The ending has been left wide open for a sequel and I wouldn't mind hearing what becomes of Danny Miller.

Two person play as a novel.......2004-05-27

I will admit that I listened to this Audio Book on drive to and from Las Angeles to Los Vegas. I thought it a good chance to be introduced to Pat Barker who seems to get such rave reviews. This is basically a two person character study in the guise of a psychological thriller that is not all that thrilling. I found the store interesting enough and the writing crisp, but the
secondary plot of Tom Seymour and his wife seems lost as she walks out of his life just when he is consumed with this former child patient who returns to extract his revenge. Or does he? I will give this a marginal thumbs up because the two main characters are well written and vivid, with Danny Miller the tormented child murderer an excellent character. But in the end I did not find this very satisfying to listen to and doubt I would have finished it if I had picked it up as a book.

"Regeneration" revamped.......2004-03-08

When child psychologist Tom Seymour pulls a would-be suicide from a river, he recognises the young man as Danny Miller, the child whom Tom's assessment had helped imprison for the brutal murder of an old woman thirteen years ago. Now out of prison and supposedly starting a new life, Danny has hunted Tom down in the hope that he might be able to help him understand the killing. With his own life troubled and his marriage collapsing, Tom succumbs to the temptation to travel into Danny's past.

The problem is that what he finds there is not particularly riveting, and certainly not unusual enough to account for an act which society regards with horror as completely beyond the boundaries of "normality". Unlike, say, Peter Shaffer's "Equus", when Danny finally remembers the murder there is little depth, no sense of climax, no sense of a mystery unravelled, not even much horror. The novel sets up the idea of a journey into the mind of an outcast, the child who kills, but never lives up to what it promises.

The second problem is the characterisation. Danny Miller is a pale reworking of Billy Prior, Barker's brilliant creation in "Regeneration", complete with Prior's unpleasant father, manipulative charm and "wintry smile", but nowhere near as interesting (especially once you recognise him as Prior). Tom isn't even a shadow of "Regeneration"'s Dr Rivers, and there is even less substance to the supporting cast, his wife, his colleagues, and the people whose lives Danny has passed through. Although there are hints that there will be trouble between Tom and Danny, since Danny seems to blame Tom for his imprisonment and is renowned for getting people who deal with him to "cross the invisible line", the relationship barely develops, again being a lack-lustre echo of the intense but still professional relationship between Rivers and Prior.

Barker is capable of extraordinary writing, as evidenced in her superb "Regeneration" trilogy, a remarkable exploration of people who kill and what it does to their psyches. It's a pity that she seems to have been rewriting it ever since.

Surprising page-turner!.......2004-03-07

Pat Barker has won many awards for her fiction & here it's easy to see why. It's the story of a psychiatrist who accidentally meets a young man he once evaluated...evaluated to say whether he could stand trial. The patient has grown up and wants to talk about his childhood. Meanwhile, the therapist's personal life is falling to pieces. American bestsellers in the genre of your choice are fun reads. Reading a book by an excellent storyteller and writer like Barker points up just how flimsy, vapid, and bland many of those NYT bestsellers are. She has an amazing facillity with language and story construction. Her World War 2 "Regeneration" trilogy won all the awards and got press (mostly in Britain) but try this page turner or "Blow Your House Down." I had to read the latter in one sitting!

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Border Crossing : A Novel

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Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art

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Entering The Creative Space Of Toni Morrison
Folklore--"the boiled down juice of human living"
This book enlightens and forces the reader to engage in it.

Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art
Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
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Entering The Creative Space Of Toni Morrison.......2004-02-13

This book is for anyone who craves a deeper
comprehension of Morrison's seminal work. In
fact, it's indispensable for the "active" reader or
student who wants to observe how Morrison has seamlessly
interwoven myth and folklore into a complex
tapestry which reflects the afro-american experience
in America. CROSSING BORDERS deftly unravels each thread
for the reader, but paradoxically and exquistely leaves the
tapestry in tact. Kudos to Dr. Brown!

Folklore--"the boiled down juice of human living".......1999-10-23

Folklore--"the boiled down juice of human living," as the writer Zora Neale Hurston defined it--has always been employed by displaced African people to reaffirm their identity within the dominant culture. In the 1960s, when the separation of the black and white worlds was challenged, black artists began to use folklore as a means of "crossing the borders" that maginalized African Americans. By embracing folk idioms (legends and tales, quilts and dolls, and even archetypes and steretypes like Aunt Jemima and Sambo), these artists, who were frequently women, devised a new aesthetic that reclaimed and redefined their multiple identities. In this study, Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown, an associate professor of English at Spelman College, takes a close look at how four African American female artists--writers Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall and visual artists Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar--have mined folklore for the evocative images that have enabled their work to transgress social, cultural, and political borders from the 1960s until today.

This book enlightens and forces the reader to engage in it........1999-05-05

In "Crossing Borders" Dr. Billinglsea-Brown gives the reader an in-depth analysis of the components that surround borderlines. Anyone who reads this book will become enraptured with Dr. Billinglsea-Brown use of language to convey the ideas that surround a complex identity such as the African American woman. Her book is reflective of historical, cultural, and social movements. Through this book I have gained the knowledge to come to a point where I can understand part of the meaning and significance of folklore and its connection to the Afrcian American literary tradition. I enjoyed this book not only for its light language but the author's ability to weave the reader into the world of Morrison, Satyr, and other African American women writers that influenced our history and cultural outlook.

Las crónicas de Jackson Heights (Jackson Heights Chronicles): Cuando no basta cruzar la frontera (When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough)

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Bravo!

Las crónicas de Jackson Heights (Jackson Heights Chronicles): Cuando no basta cruzar la frontera (When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough)
Orlando Tobon
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Jackson Heights Chronicles: When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough

ASIN: 0743286596

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Bravo!.......2007-04-04

After having lived in Jackson Heights for nine years, i enjoyed reading about the characters in this book. Some I probably know. I liked Mr. Tobon's writng style, it was original and kept me interested and focused throughout the book.
I can't wait to read it again and share with a friend!

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Breathless
Riveting
Survival of the Fittest
Great Story
Crossing

Crossing
Manuel Luis Martinez
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ASIN: 0927534800

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Novel. In CROSSING, Manuel Luis Martinez explores the American obsession with mobility, the irrepressible hope that there must be something better somewhere and the relentless desire to move on in search of this elusive goal. Inspired by a newspaper account of thirteen undocumented workers left to suffocate in a boxcar outside El Paso, CROSSING tells the story of Luis, a boy who leaves his small town in Mexico to seek his fortune in the United States. Martinez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and is now an assistant professor in the English department at Indiana University in Bloomington.

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Breathless.......2006-03-13

I felt like I was in the smoldering box car with the characters. Could hardly breath! Made me want to do something, anything to help.A very timely story.

Riveting.......2002-11-27

This novel keeps your eyes glued to the page in white-knuckled suspense. Can't wait to get ahold of Martinez's much anticipated second novel, _Drift_, due out from Picador in April 2003.

Survival of the Fittest.......2001-04-18

Intrigued by an actual news story relating the deaths of undocumented workers found in a railroad boxcar, Martinez envisions what prompted these deaths in this book. This is an intense story about Luis' crossing to the United States and the unexpected events that take place in the boxcar. Here, Luis must deal with his personal demons and yet stay strong in body and mind in order to survive. Martinez does an outstanding job relating the story with detail and emotion. He gives readers insight to what desperate immigrants attempt at doing in search of a better life and yet no know the risks involved. I agree, this book was hard to put down.

Great Story.......2000-12-18

Martinez does a great job bring you into the story and making you feel like you are on inside the cramped boxcar with the other men. Martinez also uses his superior talent to use dreams to describe past events.-New York Times Book Review

Crossing.......2000-07-06

This book is exceptional. The author really puts you where the story is being held, in a box car. It is so well written that I could not put it down. I read this book in 3 days. I recommend this book to anyone who just reads ordinary novels. This book is not a novel, it will take you on a journey most people never even think about.

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Border Crossing: A Novel
Maria Colleen Cruz
Manufacturer: Pinata Books
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ASIN: 1558854053

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An entertaining novel about a young girl's search for her Mexican roots

When Ceci Alvarez decides to spend time thinking about who she is—and avoid taking yoga or reading books out of the "Self-Help" section when she grows up—she knows certain things. She is twelve going on thirteen. She is four feet and nine inches tall. She is named Cecilia Maryann Alvarez after her grandmothers, one name English and one name Spanish, which "made sense, since one of my grandmas spoke English and one spoke Spanish." But the things the teenager does not know will send her riding the rails from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico to learn about her father's family.

One day while in her Nana's room, Ceci discovers a table brimming with old photographs of people she does not know and places she has never been. "Those pictures were probably the first things in the whole house which had ever interested me." This extraordinary find and the rapid Spanish of her grandmother's accusation that her father is embarrassed to be Mexican, propel Ceci on an odyssey that leads her from the trail of photographs to a new discovery.

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Thomas King is the first Native writer to generate widespread interest in both Canada and the United States. He has been nominated twice for Governor General's Awards, and his first novel, Medicine River, has been transformed into a CBC movie. His books have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The Globe and Mail, and People magazine. King is also the author of the serialized radio series The Dead Dog Café and is an accomplished photographer. Border Crossings is the first full-length study to explore King's art.

Davidson, Walton, and Andrews employ a framework of postcolonial and border studies theory to examine the concepts of nation, race, and sexuality in King's work. They examine how King's art routinely explores cross-cultural dynamics, including Native rights and race relations, American and Canadian cultural interaction, and the artistic traditions of Europe and North America. The authors argue that, by situating these concepts within a comic framework, King avoids the polemics that often surface in cultural critiques. His writing engages, entertains, and educates. This provocative analysis of King's art reads across cultures and between borders, and makes an important contribution to the study of Native writing, Canadian and American literature, border studies, and humour studies.

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Another great Southern novel

Wonderfully Written Family Drama

"He who is penitent is almost innocent."

Almost Innocent

Almost Innocent
Almost Innocent: A Novel (Voices of the South)
Sheila Bosworth
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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ASIN: 0807120669

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Another great Southern novel.......2007-03-05

I just loved reading this book. I loaned out my original copy, the person to whom I loaned it to moved away, so of course I bought another. It is one of my favorite books, made me wished I lived in New Orleans. Loved the descriptions of the place and although I am a little younger than the author, can relate to pre-Vatican II memories.

Wonderfully Written Family Drama.......2002-11-26

Sheila Bosworth has written a novel that is deserving of all the praise it has gotten from the other reviewers on this site. The characters are unforgettable and the story unfolds at such a perfect pace. We are introduced and then guided through this intimate family history by Clay-Lee the daughter who shares with the reader the perspective of a child as she describe events and people that are encountered by her parents and their immediate circle. The childhood recollections are structured in such a clever way that the reader anticipates and percieves motivations that are not clearly evident to the young Clay-Lee as narrator. Her "innocence" doesn't prevent us from seeing something more sinsister implicit in the scenes she witnesses.

In addition to the wonderful characters and plot the novel has the added quality of just dripping with New Orleans flavor. If you love the city and are familiar with the settings described the novel provides that added dimension of placing you right there.

After finishing this I immediately ordered Bosworth's other novel Slow Poison. She is a fabulous writer.

"He who is penitent is almost innocent.".......1999-12-24

With this quote from Seneca, author Sheila Bosworth capsulizes the theme of innocence lost and nearly restored in "Almost Innocent," her first novel. Set in New Orleans and evocative of the sights and sounds that any native will recognize, Bosworth's novel traces the process by which the main character, Clay-Lee, attempts to reconstruct her mother's life through stories and memory. In the process of facing herself through her mother's life, Clay-Lee finds redemption for her perceived guilt in her mother's death. Her penitence restores her innocence and allows her to shape her own life and move on. This novel was both entertaining and thought-provoking. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone who has ever borne the guilt of a burdensome secret--or who simply wants a taste of New Orleans.

Almost Innocent.......1999-12-12

Almost Innocent is a rare find. I read this book several times and found something different to love every time. The second novel, Slow Poison is also another classic. Sheila Bosworth is an incredible storyteller. Her characters leap off the pages and become a part of your existance. Her writing flows as smoothly and certainly as a river. This would make a wonderful movie. Please Ms. Bosworth, more!

Almost Innocent.......1999-12-12

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GREAT READ
This was my favorite Jane Feather novel
Awful waste of time
Well written but the main character was disappointing.
Unsatisfying and Frustrating

Almost Innocent
Jane Feather
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553573705
Release Date: 2001-05-01

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Dear Reader,

Almost Innocent is a romance that is particularly dear to me, with a heroine who surprised me with her strength and resourcefulness, and a hero who will always be one of my favorites.

Growing up behind the impenetrable walls of an English fortress, young Magdalen does not know that she is the illegitimate daughter of a powerful English prince and his murdered French mistress -- or that she has been a pawn in the struggle between England and France ever since she slipped from her dying mother's womb.

All she knows is that she longs for excitement. And then one day, as if in answer to her prayers, the splendid figure of Guy de Gervais, a true knight in shining armor, rides into her cloistered world and spirits her away.

For Magdalen it is love at first sight. The one and only love of her life. Yet Guy sees only his responsibility to keep Magdalen safe until she can be wed to his nephew and thus fulfill her political destiny.

Then duty calls Guy to the bloody battlefields of France, and when he returns, time has transformed Magdalen into a stunningly sensual beauty. Suddenly the noble knight is fighting the fiercest battle of his life: against a searing desire for a woman he cannot have.

I hope that you will be thrilled by Magdalen and Guy's passionate love story, and that you will have as much pleasure reading it as I had writing it.

Warmest wishes,

Jane Feather

P.S. Don't miss my latest novel, The Widow's Kiss, featuring an enchantress who has been widowed no less than four times ... and the formidable hero who finds himself reluctantly falling under her spell.

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GREAT READ.......2007-07-11

I LOVED this book.
The first I have read by Ms Feather
No issues, just a wonderful historical romance with an intriguing plot.
A page turner from start to finish!

This was my favorite Jane Feather novel.......2007-03-02

I LOVED this book. It reminded me of the stories of King Arthur, Sir Lancelot and Gwenivere; the love triangle between the three. This was one of the rare occasions I've read a novel purposely slow - wanting to savor the story and enjoy the images created rather than just reading quickly to find out what happens. I loved Guy, Magdalen and Edward. I felt for all 3 of these characters - wanting Magdalen to appreciate Edward's love, but knowing she had to stay true to her heart. I was not offended by the "immorality" of her cheating because her marriage was arranged. It was never her choice to marry Edward. Had she chosen him from the start, giving herself body AND soul to him and then decided to cheat, then I would have had a hard time liking her character. As it is, I found this one of Jane Feather's best novels - it was powerfully passionate and I felt myself torn between Edward and Guy, much as Magdalen did toward the end of the novel. A great read!

Awful waste of time.......2006-05-04

There was nothing romantic about this book. The characters were dull. The heroine purposefully set out to commit adultery and did so, without a modicum of guilt. This is especially disturbing b/c her husband, Edmund, was not a bad character at all. The hero is somewhat, just there,he's not compelling at all. The only thing that was notable about him was the fact that he only committed adultery/cuckolded his nephew because he thought he, Edmund, was really dead. Meanwhile, the heroine "just knew he was alive" all along and didn't give a care. When the heroine supposedly "grows into a woman", I find myself rooting against her until the end. She is amoral and immature. This book is a huge waste of time/money.

Well written but the main character was disappointing........2006-01-26

This book was very well written. However, I found a lot lacking in the main character Magdalen. I thought she was self absorbed and immature. I felt like Edmund deserved more than he recieved. I read historical romance when I am in the mood for a happy ending and I didn't get that with this book.

Jane Feather did do a wonderful job of taking me where I did not expect to go.

Unsatisfying and Frustrating.......2005-09-28

Like Chase the Dawn (another of Jane Feather's novels), Almost Innocent portrays the female lead, in this case Magdalen in a bad light. Here Magdalen is portrayed as a selfish woman, a temptress who causes trouble for men. But if you really see past this, Magdalen hasn't done anything wrong - she loved a man and warned him of her intentions. As for her beauty - it is hardly her fault that men love her. She never knowingly flirted or used her power over them. That is why she is 'almost innocent'. Guy, the man she loved since she was a child is a widower and looked after Magdalen as a child to marry her off to his nephew. Since her marriage, Magdalen has made efforts to make her feelings known to Guy and he has been understandably shying away. His sense of honour would not allow him to do anything else. His continual denial of his feelings is frustrating whereupon he forces Magdalen to deny the true parentage of their child who was conceived when he believed that Magdalen's husband was dead. His sense of honour is a likeable trait but he isn't portrayed as someone romantically in love with Magdalen, which is she is seen as the one who is at fault. She pursues him and he is happy to go along with the ride (when he believed her husband was dead), and this is what is missing from the novel - the give and take between the two. Magdalen loves Guy more than he loves her. It is not until the end when he really declares his feelings but that is such a shortchange compared to his actions in the novel. Not a bad book, but not my cup of tea. It doesn't have the right balance to make a truly romantic novel.

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Almost Innocent
Jane Feather
Manufacturer: Bantam Book
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0739416855

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Historical Romance

OJ Simpson is Innocent: Almost a Perfect Crime

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Judge not ...
Any idiot can write a book.
In consideration of OJ's new book...
The American Educational System Sucks!!
You cannot be serious

OJ Simpson is Innocent: Almost a Perfect Crime
Adolf W. Hauf
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Our perception has told us there is NO WAY OJ Simpson could possibly be innocent. There is the DNA, the footprints, the blood, hair and fiber, that Mountain of Evidence. The good old American press has "Brain Washed" most of us into believing that OJ just has to be guilty.

They belittled the criminal jury and forced the civil jury to find him guilty or risk being shamed!

There is at least ONE WAY that OJ could be innocent and I suggest to you that is what happened. We know OJ was there that night. I am going to tell you what time he got there and what time he left, Nicole and Ron were already dead when he got there. OJ moved the bodies of Nicole and Ron in an effort to help them.

OJ prayed that night. Ron Goldman tells us who is the killer! I am going to tell you why OJ doesn't just tell us what happened that night.

First I give you preliminary information and tell you why I, the author am uniquely qualified to determine whether OJ is guilty. Then I will tell you why OJ IS NOT GUILTY. We go through the evidence and explain why OJ doesn't just tell us the truth! Finally, I tell you, WHO IS THE KILLER! I add commentary and wrap it up.

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Judge not ..........2006-12-24

This is not a review of this book. I haven't read it, and I suspect none of the other reviewers has either. I just want to refer people to the book, OJ is Guilty, but not of Murder, by William Dear.

I read the book by Dear and it convinced me that OJ is innocent of murder. Dear proposes a plausible theory that delivers on all the claims that the author of OJ is Innocent makes for his book. It continues to amaze me that Dear's theory gets no press, and everyone just goes on "knowing" that OJ did it, just as I did before I heard Dear's theory. On the web, I only find a brief discussion of Dear's theory in the OJ Simpson murder case Wikipedia entry under the "alternative murder theories" section.

But now we get this book published, and I suspect that this author is trying to capitalize on the lack of popular success of the Dear book, perhaps surmising that the Dear book's fatal flaw is its main title, OJ is Guilty, which everyone already "knows". So he titles his book OJ is Innocent, so as to be sure not to mince any words.

Again, I don't know what this book contains since I have never seen a copy. But I think it at best contains a recapitulation of Dear's theory, most likely unreferenced.

Any idiot can write a book........2006-11-22

Well, Mr. Hauf. I was looking to make sure OJ's new confession had been pulled from release and found your little gem of a book. Funny how you could conclusivly proove that OJ is innocent now that he's admitted to the crime.

I'm now off to look for other books you have written and am sincerely hoping for "The World is Really Flat, an Objective Report" and maybe "I Have a Brain, I Really Do."

That should fill out your catalogue nicely.

In consideration of OJ's new book..........2006-11-16

...this book is now officially garbage, even to the idiots who weren't convinced of it before. If you bought this in the first place, you need to get a clue.

The American Educational System Sucks!!.......2002-07-22

Peter Jennings is a success. Peter Jennings does not have a High School Diploma. I have not heard anybody call Peter Jennings stupid. Could that be because he is white. Who is playing the race card here.

Before going any further, the one who dealt the "race card from the bottom of the deck," was not a Black man but a White man, Robert Shapiro ( See Jeffrey Toobins article in the New Yorker).

The O.J. Simpson Criminal trial Jury did not convict for the same reason the vast White American public believes that O.J. is guilty: American Media and our educational system.

From the beginning, the prosecution decided to try this case in the MEDIA and not in the court. The Latter is why instead of being the second seat on this case, Marcia Clark was the Lead Prosecutor and not William Hodgman. It was all for the benefit of the media or the spin.

Bill Garcetti spent alot of time on window dressing and not alot of time on selecting and bringing together as Robert Shapiro did for the oppossition a group of people that would obtain a win. Instead of selecting the best person for the job, he decided to be politically correct by selecting a woman to handle a "domestic violence case." Instead of selecting the best second seat they selected another failure merely on the basis on the one characteristic that both he and the defendant shared: their skin color.

The Victims lost because Marcia Clark dropped the ball in jury selection. She failed to produce what she brought to the table to do- to be well versed on a woman's issue- domestic violence.
She let her ego and not the jury consultant do the work and that is where her case started falling apart. She had no clue as to human nature, culture, race of gender politics. On the other hand, Johnny Cochran was able to select a jury that was more succeptive to his theory of what happened that night, because he listened to his JURY CONSULTANT!

A jury consultant was available to Marcia Clark and she blew it! She did not listen to any of his advice. She though that by stacking the jury with women that she would be able to get a conviction: Wrong!

Garcetti blew it with Chris Darden too! Garcetti's blunder is a testament to how stupid people WITH PROFESSIONAL DEGREES can be just as stupid as a person with out a college education. By selecting Chris Darden he made a big mistake. He put the poor guy under so much pressure. Chris Darden was forced to deal with his knowledge, based on the evidence that O.J. was guilty and two that by going against O.J. he was taking on his community- a terrible place for anyone to be. This is why the idiot had O.J. try on the glove and testify before the jury with out being cross examined. O.J. did speak to the jury - although his acting skill..., he won an Oscar for that they when he put on that glove.

In addition to the inadequacies of the prosecution, the media failed to report what actually went on in the courtroom. Like the Prosecution, they dropped the ball. Instead of having closure all these years later- here we are debating the guilt or innocence of Simpson.

This case was lost not because the jury was stupid but because Americans accept the MEDIA"S SPIN on enverything and because the PROSECUTION CARED MORE ABOUT POLITICS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS AND NOT JUSTICE.

The prosecution gave the public what they felt they could handle-symbolism instead of substance. The losers here are the victims and the American people. Careers and fortunes were made, but jusice was not served.

You cannot be serious.......2002-07-10

Years have passed since this horrendous event took place and many theories have been invented to explain the events of that night. However, the ideas portrayed in this book leave too much to the imagination. OJ Simpson killed his wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. That is a fact despite what I have just read in this book. It all revolves around the fact that OJ had the motive and the mountain of evidence should have convicted him many times over. The American jury were not the most intelligent of people and were totally overwhelmed by his sporting personality. They didnt understand the scientific evidence. How could thay, as only one of the jurors ahd a high school diploma. The evidence was overwhelming. The blood of his victims were on his shoe prints and on the pedals of his car. What more evidence was needed? The probability of 2 people having the same blood is much greater than the number of inhabitants in the world!! This suggests he was at the scene of the crime. It is so obvious. Had Mr. Simpson been poor, the case would not even have gone to trial. Johnny Cochrane used the race card and surrounded the jury with numerous lies, thus trying to erode the pyramid of evidence mounted by Marcia Clarke and Chris Darden.
You did it Mr. Simpson ...and you know it!

Almost Innocent (Silhouette Romance, No 951)

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