Beyond All Reason: My Life With Susan Smith
by David Smith
List Price:
Our Price: $3.35
You Save: $12.60 (79%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.34 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: David SmithEdition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10
ISBN: 1559351764
Publisher: Soundelux Audio Publishing
Book Reviews of Beyond All Reason: My Life With Susan Smith
Book Review: Compelling, heart rending, well-written true crime
Summary: 4 Stars
Written by David Smith, who lost his infant and toddler sons when his wife sank her car with their children into a lake and watched it sink - and them drown. She then reported that she had been carjacked, and her children stolen. For nine days there was a media frenzy as the nation looked for those boys. I remember that.
And then, finally, she confessed, and the car, and the boys, were found at the bottom of a lake. I thought his story would be compelling. It certainly is.
If this story isn't an argument for abortion, I don't know what is. Of course, Susan Smith didn't choose abortion. She was a "Christian" and "didn't believe in abortion." She sure as hell didn't want to be a mother.
She also had a narcissistic personality, as well as a narcissistic mother. Self-centered to the absolute maximum. No one existed outside of their own little world, no one else mattered.
Susan Smith also had a stepfather who molested her. She may also have been an alcoholic, with very deep roots. This is a woman who desperately needed attention, and she was getting it the only way she knew how. Too bad no one else noticed...until it was too late.
Amy Fisher: Anatomy of a Scandal : The Myth, the Media and the Truth Behind the Long Island Lolita Story
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in General Books
Pieces of My Heart: A Lifeby Robert Wagner
HarperEntertainment; Published: 2008-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.00
Price in other shops:
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesiaby Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Too Fat to Fishby Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza
Spiegel & Grau; Published: 2008-11-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
The Wordy Shipmatesby Sarah Vowell
Riverhead Hardcover; Published: 2008-10-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
Letter to My Daughterby Maya Angelou
Random House; Published: 2008-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.09
Price in other shops:
Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voiceby Maureen Mccormick
William Morrow; Published: 2008-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.78
Price in other shops:
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanityby Bill O'Reilly
Broadway; Published: 2008-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.67
Price in other shops:
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the Worldby Vicki Myron
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 2008-09-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.89
Price in other shops:
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Timeby Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.25
Price in other shops:
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Lifeby Alice Schroeder
Bantam; Published: 2008-09-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.25
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Breaking Point (St. Martin's True Crime Library)by Suzy Spencer
St. Martin's Paperbacks; Published: 2002-02-18; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.29
Price in other shops:
Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guiltyby Anne Bird
Published: 2005-03-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.28
Price in other shops:
Every Woman's Nightmare: The True Story Of The Fairy-Tale Marriage And Brutal Murder Of Lori Hackingby Steven Long
St. Martin's Paperbacks; Published: 2006-04-04; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.25
Price in other shops:
A Wife's Revenge (St. Martin's True Crime Library)by Eric Francis
St. Martin's Paperbacks; Published: 2005-06-13; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.20
Price in other shops:
Susan Smith: Victim or Murdererby George Rekers
Glenbridge Publishing,; Published: 1995-09; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.95
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killerby The Goldman Family
Beaufort Books; Published: 2007-09-13; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.45
Price in other shops:
Are You There Alone? : The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yatesby Suzanne O'Malley
Published: 2004-02-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.46
Price in other shops:
Hush Little Babies: The True Story Of A Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children (St. Martin's True Crime Library)by Donald A. Davis
St. Martin's Paperbacks; Published: 1997-11-15; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.26
Price in other shops:
Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Susan Smith Murdersby Andrea Peyser
Harpercollins (Mm); Published: 1995-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.00
My Daughter Susan Smithby Linda Russell, Shirley Stephens
Authors Book Nook; Published: 2000-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.95
Price in other shops: