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Insanity: My Mad Life Paperback – 31 Mar 2004

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  • Paperback: 335 pages
  • Publisher: Blake Publishing; New edition edition (31 Mar. 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844540308
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844540303
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.2 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 164,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Owing to Charlie Bronson's somewhat confined conditions (ie. in a cage like Hannibal Lecter), it is difficult for him to get out and promote his book as he would want to. It doesn't seem to have harmed Bronson, however, which has sold well over 100,000 copies, perhaps because every time Charlie does something a bit nutty it ends up in every national newspaper... Charlie once kidnapped three Iraqis and threatened to eat them. He is now threatening to eat any bookseller who orders a less-than-substantial quantity of his new book. You have been warned... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 starsPrison Life
By A Customer on 15 May 2004
Format: Hardcover
This book is a true insight into modern prison life and the effects it has on a person. Charles Bronson probably has the best insight on the subject, spending the majority of his time in solitary confinement. In this book he shows a surprising normality and his reasoning on his own incarceration is fascinating. This book is a well explained account of a person who has experienced long term imprisonment; humorous yet disturbing, and it will definitely put you off experiencing a spell in the slammer for life.
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5.0 out of 5 starsthe view from inside
By A Customer on 19 Aug. 2005
Format: Paperback
Bronson writes very honestly about his incarceration, and about the madness that caused him to start prison riots, rooftop protests an take guards as hostages.
Bronson talks about being 'ghosted' around the country from prison to prison, and names the prison officers who helped him, and the ones who were mean.
never afraid to speak his mind, Bronson paints a colourful portrait of the inside, and some of the villains who give prison life character.
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5.0 out of 5 starsInteresting and Excellent
By L on 29 July 2013
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If you're interested in Charlie Bronson or anything to do with crime and law it is well worth a read. Bronson seems to be quite an intelligent guy beneath his 'hard-man' image and certainly has some great insight into prison life and the way things are run, not always for the better. The only thing I would say against this book is that it is all based around his time in the 'nut-houses' not his entire prison life. Also it does jump around a bit and doesn't read like a well structured book, more like a story if you sat and listened to him tell you, it's a little... "Oh you'll never believe what happened in 1989...." "Oh and in 83..." "Oh which reminds me when I was in Broadmoor..." etc etc.

Other than that it's a good read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAddictive Reading
By Daniel Aeontomicer on 20 Dec. 2010
Format: Paperback
This is the first book that i read all the way through without skipping any pages, it hooks you from the start and i found it hard to put down. You expect to read about ten pages and before you know it you have read about thirty. In this book he talks about his experiences past and present in prison, sometimes comical, sometimes serious, you can't help thinking that some of the stuff he's wrote about is partly made up. He also talks about mental illnesses such as Paranoid Schizophrenia, Pyromania and Psychopaths. At the back of the book there is a list of which prisons he has served time in up until 2002, somewhat outdated, i'd pick up a copy of his latest book if you want to learn about what he's like at the present. His books seem somewhat repetitive, maybe he's run out of stuff to write about. The book has drawings that he done in prison and a middle section with photos of himself, friends and family. 90/100.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAn easy read, but not a very good one.
By Lucille Bluthe on 1 Jan. 2016
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Purchased as a gift for my husband, (so this is really his critique). Basically the book is an extended rant about Charles Bronson, how great he thinks he is, how hard done by he is (I don't really disagree on that point), and how terrible life in the prison system can be. The book has a tendancy to ramble over the same points several times, and according to my husband, Bronson effectively comes across as the kind of attention seeking man you might meet trying to hold court at the local pub. My husband is a much slower reader than I am, but he was able to read the book from beginning to end in an entire day.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThought the book was quite repetitive. "Tell you what's ...
By Robert Kay on 25 July 2015
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Thought the book was quite repetitive. "Tell you what's mad, mad Frankie, he stuck up a nonce after beheading a grass in Parkhurst. I'll tell you what else is mad, old Harry the Haymaker, once pulled the arms off an ex screw for looking at his arse the wrong way. And I'll tell you what's even madder than maddest thing you can think of, big giant Geoffrey the goat, they had to get the armed forces in to take him away in a body bag after he summoned Satan after sacrificing a virgin con, if that's not mad, I don't know what is!"
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3.0 out of 5 starsok but not what i expected..
By jellyintheoven on 22 Jun. 2012
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i bought this book with the expectation of reading a charles bronson auto-biography. what i got was a disordered book of ramblings mostly about the british prison system and anecdotes about other people. if you are looking for an account of the life of charles bronson then look elsewhere!
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2.0 out of 5 starsNutters, Madness, Screws and C*nts
By Greg on 13 Mar. 2014
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If you make sentences out of the above and rearrange into slightly different order then repeat several hundred times you will have a rough idea how this book trudges along. I gave up after 150 pages because I found this boring.
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