Pickle

When you compare the accolades to the book sales it will make you laugh.

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Pickle

I think the author was just going for a rhyme.

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leejo

I've been thinking about "In The Belly Of the Beast" a lot lately. It's an excellent book written in the early 80s by a 37-year-old who'd spend 25 years in prison. It's heartbreaking and well-written.

The writer's (Jack Henry Abbott) obvious intelligence, the sympathy his portraits of prison life elicited, and the lost memories of his crimes, combined with Norman Mailer's support and the book's popularity earned Mr. Abbott parole in 1981.

6 weeks later he stabbed and killed a 22-year-old, newly married waiter who told him that only the restaurant's patrons could use the restroom.

Jack Henry Abbot wrote a good book that made a lot of people feel better about themselves because they could empathize with this noble savage man and see how brutal and sad prison life actually is. In the 6 weeks of his adult life that he was a more-or-less free man, he was bustled about the hoi polloi of New York from one coctail party to the next, lauded as a long-misunderstood outlaw by people who never understood the one true thing about him: he was a junkyard dog.

I think Tookie was the same way. It's perfectly understandable that all condemned fight and use every trick they've learned in their sad wasted lives. It's perfectly understandable that their efforts work to some degree: we'd all have to be pretty heartless not to pause in doubt, at least. It's not acceptable that these death throes should distract adult citizens from the rule of law or the faces of the dead.

Vinzalf

He can talk, and sometimes that's all that is needed to do the most heinous of crimes.

Words are very powerful if spoken by someone who has learned to manipulate them in such a way where they can convince others to do terrible things for them.

As far as I can tell, Being Deafblind does not prevent him from speaking to anyone.

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RAWGRLRLRLRRLGLRL!!!

Nations are like individuals: they achieve more when they plan to plant a tiny tree, and do it, than when they propose to raise an entire forest and then fall asleep in the furrows.

I AM socializing artard, I'm logged on to an MMORPG with people from all over the world and getting XP with my party using Teamspeak

Pickle

"There are no atheists in foxholes"

I can tell you first hand there are no atheist in jail/prison either. They have all found god, they all do the sign of the cross every meal and they all have bibles at their racks.

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