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| Original Title: | A Prison Diary, Hell, Volume I |
| ISBN: | 0330418599 (ISBN13: 9780330418591) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://jeffreyarcher.co.uk/books-and-plays/non-fiction/a-prison-diary-hell-volume-i/ |
| Series: | A Prison Diary #1 |
| Characters: | Jeffrey Archer |
| Setting: | London, England,2001(United Kingdom) |
Jeffrey Archer
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.7 | 4098 Users | 281 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hell (A Prison Diary #1) |
| Author | : | Jeffrey Archer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | July 24th 2003 by Pan Books (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir |
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DAY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AMThe sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting – his first offence, not even convicted – and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.
On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain ‘s most violent criminals. This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.
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Ratings: 3.7 From 4098 Users | 281 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Hell (A Prison Diary #1)
Such an annoying, arrogant, obnoxious man, so I have to say a large part of my pleasure in reading this book was a certain amount of schadenfreude. But it does also provide an interesting fly on the wall view into what everyday life in prison is like (and a high category prison for rapists and murderers at that); the tedium, the bad food, the mindless bureaucracy, and yet more tedium.A quick easy read (like most Jeffrey Archer books).I listened to this on audio and it wasnt until I was done and looked on Archers website that I realized this was Part I:Hell. There are two more parts, Purgatory and Heaven where he chronicles the rest of his two years behind bars. I will not be reading either of those. It is not because he is a person who does not summon sympathy (although he doesnt), it is because this book was boring. And if part one is called Hell and is boring, well, how much more monotonous can parts two and three be? It
I've just finished reading all three books of the Trilogy and my first impression is how padded and repetitious they are. Remove the padding and all three could easily be accommodated in one slim volume. They are allegedly prison diaries, but in fact they are more about the character and personality of the author. Archer is a "dodgy character" if you consider the many reviews on his life succinctly listed in his entry on Wikipedia. His prison trilogy is not about the injustices of prison but
Interesting insights into prison life and the British penal system but too sanctimonious for me.
I listened to this book while reading a book about someone in an American prison in Arizona. The differences were shocking. Both writers came out of prison changed and, I suppose "reformed," but the prison in Arizona had so many human rights violations that it was difficult to read. Archer points out well that the worst thing about being in prison is being separated from those he loves and the outside world. Is the barbarism in many US prisons what criminals deserve, or do we want to give people
Downloaded this on a total whim, thinking it would be an inside view of America prison culture. It's not :)Jeffrey Archer is a British Conservative politician, former member of parliament and mayoral candidate for London. Also a New York Times Bestselling author. He was convicted of perjury for lying during a libel case he brought against a British tabloid. Archer's trial and imprisonment were headline news at the time (early 2000s) and so Archer was a celebrity in prison before he even arrived
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