The Confession of O. J. Simpson

by David Bender

A provocative, fictional account of the sensational O. J. Simpson case speculates on what would happen if O. J. Simpson decided to accept Fred Goldman's challenge by confessing to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in exchange for the civil settlement. $300,000 ad/promo.

219 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1997

Reviews

[Katlyn Webb · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know how I felt about this book, even though I didn't like how he turned out to be innocent even though he wanted to confess. I mean, if you are going to write a book about OJ confessing, you should make him actually guilty and get the punishment he deserved. Needless to say that the book was kind of misleading which some people might enjoy. However, even though he turned out to be innocent in the book, I kind of liked how the author kept me guessing.

The ending did surprise me though I didn't like it. I would have liked him to be guilty and go to jail for his crime.

I Think it would have been a lot more interesting of the book WAS the journal OJ kept and that's how you found out if he was guilty or not. I don't know why in the book he kept a journal unless he knew something was about to go down and he would have to prove his innocence.

[Ryan Copping]

This is, hands down, the absolute worst book I ever read. I checked it out from the library and still want my money back.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Far-fetched but fascinating fictional account of how O.J. Simpson "might have" confessed to the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole, and of Ronald Goldman. The narrator of this first-person novel is a lawyer whom Simpson contacts after both the criminal and civil trials are over and claims that he would write a confession to the murders if Fred Goldman would drop his claim for the judgment he won at the civil trial. (In this novel, Goldman has made this offer indirectly to Simpson through the media.)

There are certainly a number of twists and turns to the ending of the book (I won't spoil them) but as I stated, the whole book is hard to believe that events could have unfolded this way, even though I realize this is a work of fiction.

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[Dede Payne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though this book is fiction, I suspect that alot of this book is probably the truth of what happened that night. Simpson appears to be very controlling of everything in his life, according to this book. It was very interesting, I couldn't put it down.

[Jim Trela · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting idea.