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Title: Beyond All Reason: My Life With Susan Smith by David Smith, Carol Calef ISBN: 1-55935-176-4 Publisher: Soundelux Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A highly recommended book re: the Susan Smith story ...
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: She Should Never Have Had Children
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing book
Comment: 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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Title: Hush Little Babies : The True Story Of A Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children by Donald A. Davis ISBN: 0312964854 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Breaking Point by Suzy Spencer ISBN: 0312983093 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: My Daughter Susan Smith by Linda Russell, Shirley Stephens ISBN: 0970107617 Publisher: Authors Book Nook Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Susan Smith: Victim or Murderer by George Rekers ISBN: 0944435386 Publisher: Glenbridge Pub Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Are You There Alone? : The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates by Suzanne O'Malley ISBN: 0743244850 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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