Product Description
From growing up in the Simpson family to life with O.J. and Nicole, to the days, weeks, and months before and after the murders, this is a true insider’s story that only a close family member could tell. Includes 16 pages of never-before-published photos…. More >>
Terri Baker has produced a well written book based on her eyewitness account of the O.J. Simpson murder trial and all that followed. I feel that to say I “enjoyed” the book would be somewhat sadistic, but it was worth the read for anyone that had any type of interest in O.J. Simpson and/or the murder investigation and trial.
This appears to have been a labor of unconditional love, self-analysis, loyalty, forgiveness and healing. It took courage to write a book that is so personally revealing of herself, The Browns, The Goldmans, The Dream Team, Kato Kaelin, Paula Barbieri her Uncle O.J., Rockingham and the rest of the Simpson family. As I read this book, I felt as if I was there among all the family, friends, groupies, media and those that were along for the celebrity ride. Ms. Baker has given her readers an up close and personal view of everything one could imagine and then some things one probably had not thought of. At times I felt she gave the reader more information than we really needed to know, but in order for the reader to fully understand…she had to let the reader into those sacred, private and personal moments.
Her compelling accounts of the various incidents, conflicts, awkard moments and private moments made me feel her every emotion. She provides information about Nicole that not even the tabloids exposed. However, she did not provide a lot of information about Justin and Sydney, but I can understand her respecting the innocent children that have lost more than anyone in this entire ordeal.
If you take away the “celebrity” from the Simpson Family…you have just about any family in the world. The issues and family secrets that the Simpsons share are typical of many dysfunctional families. But most people probably have never really analyzed things as deeply as Ms. Baker did.
Upon finishing the book, I felt that Ms. Baker has made peace with her dysfunctional family, confronted and conquered her demons, picked up the pieces of her life that were lost during the trial and learned how to make lemonade out of lemons.
The book left me wondering though…has O.J. ever shown any gratitude to his family for their dedication, love and loyalty during his ordeal. Did he learn anything from all of this? Has he read this book? How does he feel about this book? Some family members lost jobs and money by choosing to stand by his side all those months. The traveling back and forth, the great financial expense and personal scarifice was a high price to pay. I do hope that he eventually lavished his family with some financial blessings as he did for The Browns and others over the years.
Rating: 4 / 5
When I first bought the book,”I’m Not Dancing Anymore” by O.J. Simpsons neice I thought it was going to be another book trashing O.J. I really thought I was going to sit down read the book and hear about how awfuel O.J. was, but I was completly wrong. Terri Baker describes a completly different character of Nicole Simpson. Nicole was described as having a bad temper, writing people off and contributing to her argumets with O.J. In all the books that I had read so far,(and I have read all but five)not one book describes the pain that the Simpson family went throught throughout the trial. Miss.Baker did mention that for a while she never really knew who her Uncle O.J. was growing up because he was never really around. This book having been written by one of the Simpson family member, was not a book to defend him and not a book to blame him, she just told us in her eyes who O.J. Simpson was to his family. This is one of the many best books about the Simpson case that is worth the reading.
Rating: 5 / 5
Terri … You did an excellent job of describing the trauma and emotions involved.
One thing that I had never thought about: what happens to the defendant’s family. It is almost as they are guilty by association. Yet society does not provide anyone to help them thru the emotional trauma they must endure.
A consolation: You do not have to be black to have an important member of your family do something reprehensible, humiliating, and illegal. I speak from experience. It happens in those ‘superior’ white families also. And how to they handle it? Just like your family did … some better than others.
By the way, the reason the police appeared to bungle things: they are as much in awe of the ‘juice’ as his family. Heros just DO NOT do things like that!
Rating: 5 / 5
Terri, you did a beautiful job. I rented the book from the library and now I must own it. Your expresed yourself clearly about what it is like to have a famous person in your family. I know that Nicole was no angel and was even worse when she drank. I wondered how many people knew that she was under therapy for her temper. She pushed your uncle’s buttons and one day she pushed to hard. It is just that simple. Just the things she would say to him about pushing a man around in a wheel chair one day. Well sweetheart that man that you are pushing around in that wheelchair made it possible for you to live the life that you did live. I will never understand this though, if she was oh so afraid of him, why did she go back to him?? He was doing very well with Paula until she wanted to come home, like some spoiled brat. Now I am not saying what happened to her should have happened to her; but I am saying that once you are divorced and have a one-half million dollar settlement plus child support, then you move clear across country. No but she had to stay up under O. J. For what love??? I don’t think so.
Rating: 5 / 5
PLEASE HOW STUPID DOES TERRI BAKER THINK WE ARE. EVEN THOUGH I BELIEVE MOST OF TERRIS STORY I FELT SHE STREACH THE TRUTH A LITTLE BIT. I ONLY WONDER WHAT THE BROWNS REACTION TO THIS BOOK WAS
Rating: 3 / 5