Jim Dawkins
Autor(a) de The Loose Screw: The Shocking Truth About Our Prison System
Obras de Jim Dawkins
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- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 7
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- #1,123,407
- Avaliação
- 4.0
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- 1
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- 4
The book hasn't been ghost written, and I suspect not professionally edited, but only a very small number of errors are really jarring. In fact, it is a surprisingly well-written book given that the author admits he was never very successful at school.
It covers perhaps a tad too much autobiographical detail, with several early chapters given over to Dawkins' early life and career as a soldier before joining the prison service. While some of this will be irrelevant to most readers' interests, it does succeed in building a personal connection between the reader and Dawkins, and adds verisimilitude to his claims of acting as a principled defender of bullied people wherever they may be.… (mais)