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- Wonderblog Book Review: "Witness" -
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
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Witness: For the prosecution of Scott Peterson
 I was wandering through the brand-spanking new Borders on Sunday that was newly built about 3 months ago. I've always had to drive 15 minutes to the closest Borders store, but this one is about 5 minutes away. Let me tell you, I've already been spending WAY too much time over there, which is what I feared, lol.
I love this store, it's a guilty pleasure and I could be in there for days searching out books on Marketing, Topography and Design, Stephen King novels, and of course fashion magazines galore.
I had just recently watch the episode of Oprah in which she interviewed Amber Frey, Scott Peterson's ex-girlfriend. As I've mentioned before, this story just sucked me in from the start, and I remember feeling horrible about the report of a woman gone missing on Christmas Eve 2002. Two years later, we've only really seen a 1-dimentional story about tragedy gone evil...but when I saw that Amber Frey had written a book, I knew I was going to want to read it.
It was nuts. When I finished my romp in Borders, I purchased the book and brought it home, only to immediately put slippers on, jump into bed, and start reading. I'm not a big speed reader, and I usually take my time with books. Uh, yeah - not with this one. I started reading at 10:00pm and could barely unglue my eyes from the pages until I finished the entire book at 2:00am. I just couldn't put it down. It's a whole other side and story of these unthinkable chain of events, and you really understand Amber as she talks in length on everything from when she first met Scott on a blind date, to her hard childhood and how all that's happened has made her strong. More incredible was that she has tremendous faith in God, and the book documents so many close-calls, frightening parallels, and the utmost importance of always listening to that little voice inside you.
I was riveted, as cheesy as that sounds. And even though I still believe that Scott is a new breed of monster, it really even shows him as a man so far lost in his own depression and what the addiction to lies can do to someone's mind.
Just plain and simple, it's a must-read if you were at all following this story.
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