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What are readers saying about Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison?
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-18 07:11:27.
(Language: English)
 
This is a fabulous book. I wish I could meet the author. This gives a real sense of what it is like inside our federal prison system. Much different than what we are made to believe.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-30 08:40:45.
(Language: English)
Compelling read about nice white Smith graduate who is sent to federal prison and how she copes in a very different world.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-08 09:57:27.
(Language: English)
I really enjoyed this book. Read it while I was camping. I am glad I haven't done anything to get my butt thrown in jail!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-04 06:43:35.
(Language: English)
Middle class woman goes to federal prison on a 10-year old drug charge. I wanted so much more from this book and all I got was a yawn. Her family loved her unconditionally. There was never any problem between her and her fiance when she was in prison for 15 months. It was too rosey and bland.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-11-15 07:45:20.
(Language: English)
The title makes you think this is a humourous attempt for some spoiled rich girl to deal with her past catching up with her. It the exact opposite. It is filled with insight, anger, sadness, compassion, and the whole gamut of human emotions. The title is derived from an article one of Piper's friends sent her while she was incarcerated. You find yourself wanting to find out what happens to the other inmates, both released and still incarcerated. I admire all those who did time with her on the inside and the outside.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-12 01:00:34.
(Language: English)
You gotta read this one!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-11-11 10:27:50.
(Language: English)
This book isn't extraordinary, but it is interesting.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-15 11:07:45.
(Language: English)
Entertaining, funny, insightful, a new perspective on crime and punishment and on women in prison. A bonus is qa prison Cheesecake recipe!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-29 03:21:27.
(Language: English)
Given the subject matter this was a fascinating book. Not as dramatic as "A Million Little Pieces," but then, this one is probably more truthful.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-27 03:34:07.
(Language: English)
I am really enjoying this book. Definitely gives insight to a woman's prison. Totally easy read on my iTouch.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-06 07:32:17.
(Language: English)
Hated it. She was whiney. Great insight on how women's prisons work, or in this case don't work. I'm not a fan or memoirs, but the tone of this author was...annoying.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-03 07:05:22.
(Language: English)
Quick read and very insightful.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-05 09:05:40.
(Language: English)
I have to say i was excited to read this book, as I love memoirs. It was my first book I bought and read on my Nook. Unfortunately, i wasn't thrilled with this book. It was a fast read, but only because I was waiting for something interesting to happen, so I was reading it fast. It was a little boring, although it did show how women stick together when faced with adversity. I just found it a little boring for a jail house book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-04-27 05:04:51.
(Language: English)
The author is a Smith college graduate who drifted into a drug subculture after graduation. Ten years after she'd returned to a more mainstream and productive life, she is called up on a drug trafficking charge from that time period. She confesses her past misdeeds to her family and colleagues and accepts a 15-month prison sentence. Her account of the prison experience elucidates many of the long-term problems with the prison system, including the mental illness of some inmates, the lack of training that might prepare the prisoners to re-enter society, the potential for abuse of power, and the damage to entire families and communities due to large proportions of those communities serving time. Her writing is sympathetic, humorous and often heart-breaking.
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Ellen posted a review at 2010-08-30 07:56:09.
(Language: English)
This one is about a woman who is a native New Yorker, has a upper-middle class upbringing and graduates from Smith College. She is a bit of a rebel however and gets involved with some people who are involved in international drug trafficking. She falls into it, runs drug money - she only tells of one time in particular - and then realizes how dangerous it is and gets out. She cuts all those ties and moves on with her life. But as often happens in life, her past comes back to haunt her when her old friend is arrested and tells on anyone and everyone who ever helped with the trafficking. Piper is arrested and charged 10 years after the crime. She is sentenced and serves a little over a year in a women's correctional facility in Danbury, CT. (Danbury happens to be the prison that Martha Stewart had hoped to serve her time, but she was sent elsewhere). While the facility is Minimum Security, it's still prison. The author is very good at describing her days at Danbury - the other inmates, the endless boredom, the guilt and shame of what she's done. She makes friends in the least likeliest of places, but always has the knowledge that she has a great lawyer and a short sentence unlike almost everyone else she is incarcerated with. Many of the other women do not have much of a home to return to when they are released. She learns a lot about our country's criminal justice system and drug sentencing laws in particular. Most of all she learns so much about herself. It's a pretty good book. I was expecting it to be a lot more terrifying. Piper ends up having to be transferred (on her way to testify against a co-defendant in her case) and does spend some time in some scarier facilities. She really describes her situation well and it made me grateful for my boring life! I can only imagine how a ordeal such as this would change everything for a person. I did read on the inside book jacket cover that she now works with nonprofit organizations.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-29 01:09:56.
(Language: English)
If you don't think the drug laws in this country need to be changed, read Piper's story. Such a waste of resources.
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Kamatchi posted a review at 2010-08-18 08:05:54.
(Language: English)
Orange is the new black Finished reading. The book is so awesome, a must read. What I like about the book is it is so simply told, it is so matter of fact about the unknowns from an insider.Firstly the books makes one feel that the inmates are also human, secondly their quality of life inside the prison walls, thirdly how women bond in such unbinding circumstances last but not the least the value of freedom that is priceless.. I give four stars to the book and the author Piper Kerman.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-18 11:29:54.
(Language: English)
The title of Piper Kerman's memoir appealed to me immediately: she took it from a New York Times Fashion spread titled the same, that a friend of hers sent her during her stint in federal prison. My mother sent me the same fashion page in the mail, as orange is one of my favorite colors (albeit not in prison jumpsuit form). Kerman is a Smith-educated woman whose past comes back to haunt her almost 10 years later. In her youth, she dated a woman - Nora - heavy into international drug-trafficking, and aided Nora(minimally) in a couple of transactions. Kerman escaped the relationship unscathed, and went on to lead a pretty typical, middle-class existence. This is the story of Kerman's time in prison, and how she managed to make it through the her 15-month stay. It is a wonderful depiction of relationships, both the women she met in prison and her completely devoted fiancee, Larry. Of course, it also details some of the prison's horrific treatment of prisoners. The book lends itself to a sequel, as I"m incredibly curious about what Kerman's life is like post-release.
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Loretta posted a review at 2010-06-09 05:56:03.
(Language: English)
An honest and inside view of our prison's today. Piper Kerman takes responsibility for the crime and gives her point of view of serving the time. Get a first hand view of what your tax dollars are NOT doing to keep people out of prison and to help them get back on the straight and narrow. Desperate times make for desperate people. An easy, but serious read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-02 06:36:12.
(Language: English)
I loved this book - read it in two days. The author was not a typical criminal - in jail on a 10 year old drug charge, arrested long after she had straightened out her life. This book gives you a good look inside a women's prison - and that's as close as I want to get to prison!
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-02-23 07:20:40.
(Language: English)
Read this in a day and a half, simply because it was something I had never read about before: a year inside a womens' prison. As told by Piper Kerman ("Blondie" to most of her fellow inmates and guards), "Orange Is the New Black" is a fairly fascinating glimpse into a life that most of us will never experience. From her first day of processing to her final release, Kerman lets us ride shotgun as she navigates the sometimes frightening, mostly tedious months of her sentence. What I found most compelling was how much Kerman learns about herself as a human being, and how much she comes to care about the women she meets "inside". Time well spent.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-25 12:20:21.
(Language: English)
This book is soooo good! I can't stop reading it...How intresting!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-22 07:22:08.
(Language: English)
in a similar vein to other books written on this subject- there is not a lot new here- young seemingly fine girl from middle america dabbles in the drug scene to find herself- 10 years later the mistake is made public and she is sent to prison. Prisoners cope in the best way they can with what they have- bond make friends and then move on with their lives. I think it would have been a better story had she ended it with an epilogue of what she did after her release- if people treated her differently- and a what happened to so and so update. If anyhting I just felt like prison is like a camp you spend the summer at- yukcy showers, limp food and trying to get into a group where you fit in. the length of time it took from intial charge to her arrival at danbury would have been more interesting if explored in longer than one chapter,,, and featured the perspective of what her family did besided just support her unwaveringly. It sounded flip and smooth and deserved more than just a few paragraphs of how hard it was for her mom and her fiance to cope.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-09 10:34:37.
(Language: English)
We all do dumb things when we're young, right? Kerman upped the ante by getting sucked into a life of international heroin trafficking. She got out before shipping any actual drugs...but even her tangential involvement meant that when her past caught up with her, a stint in federal prison was inevitable. A fascinating "Oh NO she didn't" kind of read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-17 07:55:19.
(Language: English)
The premise of this book was very interesting--but I felt like the author didn't really get the flow down. While well-written, it was kind of repetitive and boring in parts. (Like prison?) I think the more interesting story may have been her brief time smuggling drugs.
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