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If you are not ready to cry out loud - drop the book.Prepare for a heart breaking true story of a family. Read this book for three times and the effect is still as it was the first time.The book was well written, factual and eventful with corresponding photos of the real characters that will play your emotions as if you are in the draw of events.When you feel like your life is a mess and full of regrets – read this book.
What a heart wrenching book this was to read. David was very honest in his rocky marriage with Susan. The outcome of Susan ' s selfishness is unthinkable. When this book was written she was due to serve 20 years which would put her pretty close to almost getting released now. I plan on reading more about the afterwards on this case.
I really liked reading David Smith's view of the traumatic events that took his boys' lives. I liked how he didn't let his anger towards Susan ruin all of his memories of her and how included his faith in his memoir too. I especially was very fond of one of the poems at the end too.
This is a god book for back ground and the events of the worst 9 days of a fathers life.
I cried my way through this book. Very good True crime book but so sad.
It was hard for me to read this book. Not necessarily because of the content (which was of course disturbing), but because I didn't find David to be very likeable either. I wanted to like him. But his writing style made him seem very immature and defensive, and I kept rolling my eyes every time he and Susan got back together only to break up again. But when the boys were found...my heart broke for him. Incredibly sad.
The father's storyThis is the Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina who pushed her car into the lake with her two little boys still strapped in their car seats.This version of the story is written by her husband and the father of the two boys. He tries to be fair and objective in the first person narrative, but he gets in his opinion on everybody involved including his in-laws and the media. He also reveals himself as a loving father, but a guy working two women at the same time. His wife Susan c...
Wow, I remember the first time I saw them on TV my heart broke for them, and I seriously considered going there and joining the search party! When I heard she confessed, I don't think I have ever been as angry as I was that day!! I can't I imagine a mother doing this to her children! This book gave a real and honest look into their life together! along with a " behind the scenes" look at those 9 days while the nation wept, and she lied!!! My heart goes out to David and the rest of the family, ma...
This tragic real life story has fascinated me for a long time. I never could ,and still can't, grasp how a mother could murder her children. David Smith did an amazing job not only telling the story about the tragic deaths of his children but also telling about the loving relationship he had with them, and the woman he once called his wife.
I will never, ever understand how a mother could strap her two babies into their carseats, push the car into a lake and stand there and watch as it goes under with her babies inside. HOW?? WHY?? I cannot even begin to imagine the terror those poor little babies were feeling as they were drowning. It breaks my heart. I would have loved to strap her into a car and push her in a lake so she knew exactly how it felt. Very painful book to read.
The writing was horrible and David tired to make himself look like some victim while he as abusing his wife, acting like an adolescent and sleeping around. Talk about a bunch of crazy people! David, his wife, their families and their lives DEFINE dsyfunction. Those poor kids.
Awesome book... She should ROT!! lol
Ya know . . . There are a lot of sick people in this world.
Tragic story.
I remember the story on the news it was good to get to know about it from the inside.
I can't put this book down!
I lived in the States when this happened and can remember it vividly. A good read told from David's point of view - my heart goes out to him and for those two beautiful boys.Back Cover Blurb:Beyond All Reason is more than an account of the crime that outraged a nation and shattered one man's world, more than a tale of broken faith and shocking betrayal. It is about one man's struggle to understand how this tragedy could have happened in the hope that he can help us to understand.Beyond All Reaso...
At the beginning you grew to like susan and you truley believed she was telling the truth by her actions. As you really got to know the behind the truth you grew to truly feel for those boys. Once she confessed you grew to hate her and what she did and how she lied and acted to well to cover up her hurtful lie. Told through the eyes of a father who will never heal, touching story
loved this book.
A very interesting book about Susan Smith and her relationship with her husband, David Smith, before, during, and after she murdered their two sons and blamed it on a carjacking. Despite being written before the trial, the book is pretty thorough, and I did find it very interesting.I felt for the husband here. He spends a good bit of the book apologetic, as if something he did drove his wife to do what he did. He's certainly not perfect but I don't think he's the cause. And I agree with him that...
