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You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish

Jimmy A. Lerner

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 706 Users | 73 Reviews

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Original Title:	You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
ISBN:	0767909194 (ISBN13: 9780767909198)
Edition Language:	English

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A memoir of astonishing power–the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive.

It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, "You got nothing coming."

Bringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fish’s progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the book’s climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstances–a compound of bad luck and worse judgment–led him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell.

Electrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite Oz is to television, this book is to prose–and all of the events are real.


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Title	:	You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
Author	:	Jimmy A. Lerner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	October 14th 2003 by Broadway Books (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Mystery. Crime. True Crime. Biography. Sociology

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Ratings: 3.92 From 706 Users | 73 Reviews

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This autobiography follows the life of a man who has made some unfortunate mistakes and finds himself transported to a cell, where he transforms into the O.G. (his nickname in prison, short for Original Gangsta).This is a really good read written by a man who probably never would have realized he had the talent, as he didn't start writing until he was incarcerated, as a way to keep himself sane.My friend Kevin recommended it to me after reading it for a graduate school class, but I would

Initially I gave this book four stars. Then I looked up the author to get more information. Turns out the most crucial aspect of this book, the crime that lands him in prison, is largely fabricated in the book. He describes the man he killed as a muscle-bound, 6'4 reckless junkie, but the actual man was 5'4 and 135lbs. Suddenly I realize why he took the plea bargain. Suddenly I start to doubt everything in the book. After all, what could be verified turns out to have been falsified. What about

What happens when a staunch member of the middle class (a Pacific Bell executive) with an MBA finds himself in the Nevada State Prison? This book is an excellent etic study of extreme anomie.

An enjoyable and entertaining account of prison life by a middle-aged convict who managed to skirt the dangerous fractures of prison life, yet who captured much of the reality (not the tv version)---and it can be quite scary---of life behind bars. He is adept at presenting the warped culture developed and survival stratgies employed in lock-up, much of it humourous and compelling. You actually root for some of the miscreants. It also reveals, despite all the group dynamics in play, that people

Wow. Great prison memoir. One of the best I've read recently.

Enjoyed it from beginning to end. Good book about prison life. Some reviews focus on his lack of remorse for killing 'the monster' but if he's telling the truth then I would have done the same in that situation. Better still I wouldn't end up in that situation

considering that Jimmy Lerner is a first time writer I found his ability to apply character development astounding. especially how the beginning of the book introduces him as an intelligent, middle-aged family man - yet as it progresses he adapts to prison slang and common phrases along with the clearly influenced prison gaurds (reverse Stockholm syndrome?). a great read, four stars.