“A searing indictment of America’s underfunded and substandard prison memoirists.”
– Elizabeth Warren staffer
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“A magnificent achievement in autobiography, in that the writer seems never to have met the author.”
– Guy who uses Starbucks as an office
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“He probably ain’t lyin’.”
– Former fellow inmate
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“Stunning! Like, I mean, that the Garrett I know finished writing a whole book.”
– A Phillips relative
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“I like funny. I like prison stories. And if it ever gets published I’ll probably like more of these funny prison stories.”
– Critique writer on scribophile.com
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“A gut-shiving story.
-Toothbrush carver
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“Reading the tales of this reformed felon, one worries about how many tax dollars we sank into this.”
– Random church preacher
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“Garrett Phillips is far taller in person than you’d expect. And Lookout for Shorts is an okay read.”
– Asian tourist
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“This book tells jailing like it is. Not that I would know, I’ve never been to prison. You touch my dessert, you die.”
– Non former fellow inmate
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“This book proves second chances may be a total myth. But it’s readable.”
– Amateur sociologist
