Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson [Audio Cassette]

Sheila Weller (Author), Rodney Saulsberry (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1995

Raging Heart is the intimate, untold story of Nicole and O.J. Simpson. This audio brims with gripping revelations and shocking scenes. 2 cassettes.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Dove Entertainment Inc (February 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787104876
• ISBN-13: 978-0787104870
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #347,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Sheila Weller is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning magazine journalist. She is the author of five previous books, most recently her 2003 family memoir, Dancing at Ciro's, which The Washington Post called "a substantial contribution to American social history." She is the senior contributing editor at Glamour, a contributor to Vanity Fair, and a former contributing editor of New York. To Learn more, visit www.girlslikeusthebook.com

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, October 26, 2007

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Savethetoys (Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson (Hardcover)

I just read this book. I had already read Faye's book after the trial, then I just read OJ's If I did it book, I then re read Fayes and now this one. Its really a great compilation seeing everything fit together.

I really like a lot of the backdrop and various accounts on stories, more detail to stories already told or some that I never knew.

Such as Nicoles Breasts being slashed not being mentioned, or that Nicole kept Dr. Susans Forwards Obsessive Love Book around the home and met with her twice for counsel on her situation.

Accounts from various friends in their lives and Nicoles own family, this one has more bio on Nicoles life and family as a child and up until OJ entered the picture.

You can see where a woman was trapped by control, by expectations from friends and family, by lack of help from the police the numerous times she phoned them.

How Nicole had a mixed up sense of Love with OJ, and how young she was when she met him(how she came home with her pants torn and held them shut after their first date) He tore them to have sex with her.

Nicole was truly formed as a teen and was now trying to find her own identity but also deal with the insanity that was OJ. A quote in the book I think sums it up....

"It was precisely that charm, alternating with rage, precisely that Jekyll-Hyde quality, Dr. Forward explained to Nicole made OJ so dangerously hard to deal with. As she observed: "The switching from charm to rage leaves you totally off balance. Everything thats right on Monday is wrong on Tuesday. So your always watching- your on emotional alert all the time."

I recommend this book if you devour info on this case! And a good book for those dealing with Domestic Violence because you can see Nicoles back and forthness on trying to reconcile vs getting him out of her life, she never really could get him away.

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True story of a doomed union, July 28, 2000

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Becky - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson (Hardcover)

This great book is a warts and all expose of the tragic, twisted relationship that began in 1977 and ended in June 1994 when Simpson slit his ex-wife's throat on the steps of her townhouse. You feel as if you are a part of the couple's inner circle, watching the events that led up to the tragic, brutal murders of Ron and Nicole unfold, and you want to jump into the book and yank Nicole away from her pig of a husband who did not deserve to be married to the fine, beautiful, and caring woman that she obviously was. Although Sheila Weller offers no physical evidence of Simpson's guilt, her description of the unhealthy, obsessive bond between this egomaniacal man and this poor, sweet, unfortunate woman leads the reader to believe that OJ Simpson was the only person on earth who had the motive and the reason to commit these murders, and we all know that OJ Simpson IS guilty of these heinous crimes.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very informative but..., September 22, 2005

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Justo Roteta (Los Angeles, Ca.USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson (Hardcover)

This book seems to dish as much dirt on Nicole and her "inner circle" friends as it does on O.J. himself--at times, Weller seems to simultaneously praise and criticize many of the key players in the O.J. Simpson saga. The fact that she particularly criticizes and talks badly about Faye Resnick (and indirectly accuses her of having led Nicole into a lifestyle that angered and enraged Simpson) is very unfroffessional and done in poor taste. The fact that the Brown family had a well-publicized dispute with Weller because of the things she wrote here comes as no surprise (as does the fact that the Goldman family refused to be interviewed by her).