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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What's your favorite book about prison life?Question: What's your favorite book about prison life!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/answer!.!.!. "The Executioner's Song is a work of unprecedented force!. It is the true story of Gary Gilmore, who in 1977 became the first person executed in the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty!. Gilmore, a violent yet articulate man who chose not to fight his death-penalty sentence, touched off a national debate about capital punishment!. He allowed Norman Mailer and researcher Lawrence Schiller complete access to his story!. Mailer took the material and produced an immense book with a dry, unwavering voice and meticulous attention to detail on Gilmore's life--particularly his relationship with Nicole Baker, whom Gilmore claims to have killed!. What unfolds is a powerful drama, a distorted love affair, and a chilling look into the mind of a murderer in his countdown with a firing squad!." "In the Belly of the Beast" by Jack Henry Abbot http://www!.amazon!.com/Belly-Beast-Letter!.!.!. "This is an outstanding, first-hand look into, and analysis of the unknown to the ignorant public, American academies of violence, hate, anger and crime!. Carrying the grotesque name of "system of corrections", this is the system that corrected nobody and ruined lives of great many millions!. It's a must reading for any consciencious American, who is willing to question the government propaganda that we live in a land of equal justice and liberty for all!. A great, sad but meaningful story of the 12-year old boy, whose life was taken away by the culture of anger, stupidity amd hate, by the world's largest, infamous American Gulag!."Www@QuestionHome@Com Definately The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas it's a classic, but only part of it is set in prison!. I recommend u to read it anyway!. It's really thick though, over 1000 pages but completely worth it :)Www@QuestionHome@Com jeffrey archer wrote a good one; A Prison Diary also i'm just starting Midnight Express (the film was based on it) so that should be good!Www@QuestionHome@Com The only book that I have read that is even remotely about prison life is called "American Gods" by Neil GaimanWww@QuestionHome@Com Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Colditz, The Great EscapeWww@QuestionHome@Com A Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichWww@QuestionHome@Com Shawshank RedemptionWww@QuestionHome@Com the shawshank redemption and the green mileWww@QuestionHome@Com |