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If I Did It

By: The Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves, Dominick Dunne
Narrated by: Kim Goldman, Pablo Fenjves, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner
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Summary

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O. J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but he was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression.

In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O. J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million.

The Goldman family views this book as Simpson's confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read or listen to this book and learn the truth. This audiobook was produced from the original manuscript approved by O. J. Simpson, with additional insight from the Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves, and Dominick Dunne.

©2007 Pablo F. Fenjves; 2007 Ron Goldman, LLC; 2007 Kim Goldman; 2007 Dominick Dunne (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.

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Bizarre!

Probably one of the most bizarre books I've ever read/listened to. The whole way up until the point where he discribes the murders, he paints the portrait of an innocent man. Making himself out to be a loving, caring, patient husband, and making Nicole out to be the erratic, violent one. He then describes how he carried out the murders, reminding the listener that this chapter is "hypothetical". Then he goes back to claiming he had no idea about the murders and would never have done such a thing. I don't think anyone will ever be able to understand how this man's mind works and why he chooses to act the way he does.
This is a thoroughly interesting book to listen to, I must admit that he even has you fooled at times, but then you remember all the evidence and that an innocent person would never write something like this!

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Intriguing and baffling

This book is baffling in so many ways.

Either OJ Simpson:

1- is stupid
2- thinks we are stupid and gullable
3- is cocky and did this purely for the money.

I say this because the entire book is a recollection by OJ of his relationship between him and Nicole. Of course it has a slight lean in OJs favour, so that he looks like an all round nice guy, but you can tell by all the tiny details that he has written this from recollection of his own memories and well documented events.

And then you get to the 'murder chapter'. This is the only chapter where OJ talks about a hyperthetical situation (the murder of Nicole) and yet he tells the lead up to it and aftermath with such precision and with such detail that it makes you believe it is the truest account of what really happened that night, that we are likely to get. He does however, become very vague about the actual killing and describes it as he 'came out of a daze and didnt understand where he was'.

After this chapter it switches back to 'real life again'.

The interesring thing about this book is that it provided detail from a different perspective. Not that of the media or the prosecution, but of OJ.

The narration was fantastic and really made it feel like OJ was telling his story.

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Mindblowing

This books is just shocking! I feel so sorry for Goldmans. And the killers story of the night is chilling, horrific.

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as close to confession as it could get

I felt sick to my stomach when I was listening the first couple minutes of OJ. what an ego! I don't want to spoil it too much but it does not surprise me now in the first trial he was not allowed on witness stand, his lawyers knew the outcome would have been different if he had opened his mouth.

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Go Juice.

I hadn’t realised Nicole Brown Simpson was so messed up.
RG seemed to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Pity the killer was never caught/tried/convicted.
I’m further convinced of OJ’s innocence.

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excellent and chilling, chapter 6 is particularly

amazing. excellent performance by the reader doing OJ. I was hooked and learned a lot

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This was a difficult listen

It’s hard to fathom the size of the ego behind this book. The Goldman’s were right in having it published. OJ is a manipulative monster. But the worst people of all are those that got him off

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Surreal

I find it almost unbelievable this book exists.

Imagine being charged and found not guilty of killing two people (one of which being your ex-wife) and writing a detailed "hypothetical" account of how it would have gone down "if" you did it. I can't comprehend how O.J. Simpson begins to explain this travesty to his children.

The book - "hypothetical" or not, is a good insight into O.J's mindset in terms of his relationship with Nicole if nothing else. "The Night In Question" i.e the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, is the chapter that most people will be interested in. Simpson says contradictory things in terms of the evidence of the murders, I suspect on purpose.

The narration is excellent but overall, a very surreal story, as close to a confession as you'll get.

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Excellent performance

The performance of of the narrator is excellent. An interesting and bizarre story. It really gets you thinking about why anybody would produce this book if they were innocent, it just wouldn’t happen.

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Slightly confused

An amazingly detailed book which does make you side with OJ. The murder does sound like manslaughter though it is hard to see anyone else coming across the 2 victims in the same circumstances. Now need to look at the trial

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