The Frame of the Century? [Paperback]

J. Neil Schulman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Pulpless.Com, Inc.; 1 edition (February 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584450606
• ISBN-13: 978-1584450603
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #393,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

J. Neil Schulman is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, whom the Wall Street Journal called a pioneer of electronic publishing His 1979 Prometheus-Hall-of-Fame novel Alongside Night -- endorsed by Milton Friedman, Anthony Burgess, and Ron Paul -- projected the economic meltdown and was Freedom Book of the Month for May, 2009. It's currently in development as his second feature film, following his award-winning comic thriller, Lady Magdalene's, starring Nichelle Nichols, which Schulman wrote, produced, directed, and acted in. His 1983 novel, The Rainbow Cadenza, won the Prometheus Award, was adapted into a Laserium show, and Robert A. Heinlein told the 1983 L-5 Society, "Every libertarian should read it!" Schulman scripted the CBS revived Twilight Zone episode, "Profile in Silver." He taught a graduate course on electronic publishing for The New School, has written for popular magazines and newspapers including National Review, Reason, the Los Angeles Times, and Reader's Digest, and monographs ranging from animal rights, informational property rights, and medicalization of criminology have been widely anthologized by academic presses. His 12 books include Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns, endorsed by Charlton Heston and Dennis Prager, Self Control Not Gun Control endorsed by Walter Williams, and The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana, which Virginia Heinlein said "should be on the shelves of everyone interested in science fiction." His latest is Unchaining the Human Heart--A Revolutionary Manifesto. He's recipient of the James Madison Award from the Second Amendment Foundation, and on March 16, 2009 Schulman was awarded the Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Chauntecleer by the Karl Hess Club, the only previous recipients being Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Wally Conger. Full bio at http://www.pulpless.com/jneil/jnsbio.html

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28 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ron Shipp Did It? Puh-leese!, December 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Frame of the Century? (Paperback)

To buy the conclusions in this book you have to believe that ex-LA cop Ron Shipp is some kind of combination of James Bond, Mr. Wizard, and Professor Moriarity. Whipping up fake blood genetically identical to OJ's at home in order to plant false evidence? I ask you.

Plus in order to bring off the trick he'd have to own a working crystal ball and a Ouija board, to know before it happened that OJ would cut his finger the next morning, to know that OJ wouldn't have an iron-clad alibi at the moment itself, to arrange the hundreds of random events that surround any place and time.

Here's a scenario that takes into account all the fact that Schulman uses, but doesn't toss away Occam's razor:

OJ kills Nichole and Ron. He cuts his finger, drips blood, is late for his limo, the whole thing. From the airport he calls his good friend Ron, under the theory that "Friends help you move; good friends help you move bodies." He makes his "I dreamed I did something bad to Nichole" comment.

Ron, though, isn't _that_ good a friend. The farthest he's willing to go is promising that he won't tell anyone about this phone call. He drives by Nichole's house, and his worst fears are realized: there are bodies lying on the ground. He's not going to call the cops himself; he's that good a friend, and he doesn't need the hassle. But he doesn't know about the trail of blood, either. Having been a cop himself, he doesn't have a lot of confidence in their finding evidence. So he picks up one of two gloves he finds on scene, drives over to OJ's house, and throws the glove over the fence.

Next morning, he calls OJ's house, and the cops pick up the phone. He's satisfied that they'll get the murderer. Later, he lies about when he first learned of Nichole's murder.

Okay, that covers all the points Schulman raises, and doesn't require ESP, phenominal luck, and skills beyond the ability mortal man to carry off.

And know what? It still leaves OJ guilty, despite Schulman's wishful thinking.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If he didn't do it, December 11, 2010

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David M. Brown "David M. Brown" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Frame of the Century? (Paperback)

Schulman is good fiction writer and, in this book, an uneven logician. It's bad if he believes his thesis...perhaps even worse if he's playing devil's advocate at this length just as an exercise in contrarianism. A woman was murdered and many of the friends and family of the murder victim are still around.

11 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you have a wild imagination......, August 25, 2000

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M. Carnevale "hal9000" (Chepachet, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Frame of the Century? (Paperback)

The book was an okay read but you really had to stretch your imagination. I believe some of the facts Mr Shulman dug up are more than coincidence, but I just don't buy it. If you've read all the other books for thier point of view, this is probably worth a read.