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Title: You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish by JIMMY A. LERNER ISBN: 0-7679-0918-6 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (122 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: We Are Definitely Not In Kansas Anymore!
Comment: Jimmy Lerner takes us on journey to a dark place beyond the imaginations of most of us. This true account of prison is nothing like what we see in the movies, read in books, or even watch the HBO show, OZ. It is infinitely worse. Gangs, Nazis, teenaged crank addicts that kill their families, relentlessly sadistic guards, and, for comic relief, charaters like Scud, who have a talent for propelling a snot missiles from their nose into the chow hall soup cannister.
The author pulls us into his tiny cell with him, this 8 x 6 concrete and steel box that he is forced to share with Kansas, the Nazi skinhead gang leader. Kansas can't read his neo-Nazi literature because he is illiterate. No problem. Mr. Lerner, a former Corporate executive and a Jew (which he wisely keeps to himself) reads it to him. And even explains it. Lerner even manages to win the confidence and friendship of this maniac and this makes for a fascinating and hilarious sub-plot.
The satirical accounts of our 12-Step culture and his skewering of Alcoholics Anonymous are both politically incorrect and delightfully accurate. I only hope the author survives to provide us with a sequel!!
This is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Side-Splittingly Funny; One of My Favorite Books Ever
Comment: Now, I'll admit, you must have a dark sense of humor and a well-developed sense of the absurd to 'get' this book. That being said, if that describes you, you've got something coming.
Jimmy Lerner's memoir of time in a Nevada prison is both horrifying and achingly funny. For anyone shocked by the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, one need only read this book to get a close-up look at how our own American citizens are treated in the Big House.
Lerner's twenty-odd years spent in corporate cube farms gave him some valuable tools for negotiating his way through the Pen, and his stories of how he manages to avoid one potential 'health crisis' after another with corporatespeak and motivational jargon is tearfully funny. Perhaps after reading this, you too will know how to duck 'n cover when the S**t Jumps Off.
Even though Lerner has some moral weaknesses and isn't perfect, you can't help but root for this middle-class, Jewish, corporate middle-man who ends up sharing a cell with a Nazi sociopath. Lerner was lucky to get out alive, and when you read this book, you'll be glad he did.
(WARNING: Spoiler!) In regards to the reviewer who wrote 'don't let this murderer profit', what would you do if a psycopath had not only threatened to kill you but assault your children? The corpse in this true tale defintely Had Something Coming.
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't Let a Murderer Profit
Comment: The author killed a man ("self defense' with a belt and a plastic bag. Uh-huh) and now profits from this book while the victim's family wakes up every day without him. By all means, read this book at the library, buy it used, or borrow it from a friend, but do NOT purchase it new.
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Title: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards ISBN: 0028643518 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley ISBN: 0553560239 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover ISBN: 0375726624 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Life in Prison by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Barbara Cottman Becnel ISBN: 1587170949 Publisher: SeaStar Books Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison by Robert Ellis Gordon ISBN: 0874221986 Publisher: Washington State Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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