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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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Title	:	You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
Author	:	Jimmy A. Lerner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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Original Title:	You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
ISBN:	0767909194 (ISBN13: 9780767909198)
Edition Language:	English

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It's no wonder some prisoners commit suicide. Just imagine spending 24 hours a day surrounded by people whose entire lexicon consists of a handful of clichés. AND THEY NEVER SHUT UP! Maddening! Being a prisoner himself, Lerner shares his experience with a well written narrative and even manages to maintain a sense of humor about the whole thing. Or, as his Dawgs might say: "You be stylin' O.G." (Well, that is if they could read.)

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

An excellent, frightening description of life in prison.

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

The author, a white suburbanite corporate drone and father of two girls, tells of his stint at a Nevada prison for voluntary manslaughter. He begins with his view of prison life: the oddballs, the violence, the jargon, the cruel guards. He adapts by acting respectful but tough, while his education earns him the respect of other, tougher inmates. The last third of the book takes us back to the events that led up to his crime, which was a clear case of self defense against a psychotic, as he



The first 2/3 of this book were riveting, as Lerner described his adjustment to prison life. The last third, in which he described the events that led to his arrest, seemed to drag, but it did still give a good sense of the sequence of events that eventually resulted in his committing a serious crime.