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A friend suggested that Atkins audition for The Blue Lagoon.[2] The film’s director, Randal Kleiser, stated that Atkins was a sailing instructor with no acting experience when he was cast in the film.[3] Atkins and co-star Brooke Shields played teenaged cousins who find love while living in an isolated tropical paradise after being marooned as children.[5] Released in 1980, the film grossed over $58 million with a production cost of $4.5 million[6][7][8] but received negative critical responses.[9] Atkins appeared both nude and scantily clad in the film.[5][10][11][4] While Blue Lagoon was controversial due to its nude scenes and sexual content,[12] it nevertheless became a “pop culture phenomenon”.[13] Although Atkins was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male for The Blue Lagoon,[14] critical responses to his performance were negative. A TV Guide reviewer wrote that “Atkins looks as if he would be more at home on a surfboard,”[15] and Gary Arnold wrote in The Washington Post that Atkins’ performance “evoke[s] modeling sessions and beach-party movies.”[16]
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- Publisher : Atlantic Books; Main edition (October 1, 2020)
- Language : English
- International Standard Book Number-10 : 1838950176
- International Standard Book Number-13 : 978-1838950170
- Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.08 x 0.98 x 7.8 inches
Reviews From Customers
Motomatic
A bit of a narcissist
March 3, 2020
There are some absolutely hilarious parts but the author comes across as “that guy” frequently. Like when he corrects Uri, whose first language isn’t English. It would be hard for him to be more full of himself and his jury did not miss that.
It wasn’t a mistake that he wound up in prison… he’s narcissistic and constantly trying to skirt the rules. The level of bias in his writing is absurd and at times he veers into the irrational.
It’s worth reading for the humor but I think it would have been twice the book if an editor took out most of the self-righteousness.
Crop1645
Incredibly Funny – Impossibly Sad – Completely True
March 2, 2021
What an extraordinary book. It describes a well-educated, middle-class, white man’s introduction to the five circles of hell that were Wandsworth Prison in the UK, two years ago. Then it describes how he survived them for the eight months (supposed to be six, but they kept him there a bit longer out of sheer bureaucratic confusion) before he graduated to an open prison. When he outlines the mental illness, the physical misery, the drug addiction, the jailers’ overwork, the prisoners’ lack of education, the politicians’ posturing …. it is Gogol meets Solzhenitsyn, in English. Bizarrely, it is so funny you can’t put it down … and so thought provoking, you can’t forget it.
As such, I think it should be required reading on both sides of the Atlantic. We know our prisons are no better — but maybe we can mentally approach ‘theirs’ more easily. We have to start a serious national dialogue on mental illness, on functional education, and on the cost/benefit of pointless incarceration … given that COVID will have reduced all our prisons below the sub-human conditions Atkins describes so well.
Chuck
Gets repetitive
June 14, 2021
Book starts out pretty detailed and interesting at first, I’d have thought 4 stars. All too soon it’s the same thing over and over. The same level of detail then becomes excruciating to read.
Garrett Green
Audiobook never downloaded
December 25, 2020
I wanted to buy the audiobook to use on my computer, but downloaded a file that does not work. I want a refund!
Lesley
Fascinating account of prison life
February 11, 2020
This book provides an account of Chris Atkins’ time in Wandsworth Prison. It is a fascinating account of the reality of prison life – very honestly written, and full of memorable characters he encountered along the way.
More seriously, it highlights a number of issues with the management of the prison service. It exposes some of the, often inhumane, ways prisoners are treated and it offers suggestions that could lead to more successful rehabilitation for many, and a much lower rate of re-offending.
An interesting and worthwhile glimpse into an unfamiliar world (for me at least) and hopefully some of his insights will be a catalyst for change.
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sal
Fact not fiction , unfortunately
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2020
Ordered this for a friend currently in prison . It just reinforced what we already knew but nobody else believed ! I read it in 2 evenings so I could pass it on to him . On presenting it to reception told you cant hand that in the rules have changed ! No hard backed books allowed . Luckily the “new rules” had been overruled 2 hours later so I didn’t have to take it home !!! That is fact not fiction . Im sure that Chris will have no trouble believing it anyway .Fact is the system is broken beyond repair and stuck in a 1970s timewarp where everything takes forever because nobody gives a stuff . The book made me laugh it made me cry and most of all it made me despair of a world I knew nothing about and cared even less about 4 years ago .
5
Funny and Informative
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2020
The author ended up in Wandsworth prison on account of making a documentary film that was funded through a tax fraud. He received a five year sentence although only served part of that, mostly in open prison. The book documents the period he spent initially in the tougher Wandsworth environment (the author found the open prison a much more tolerable place with little to write about).
The book does highlight the quite stark gulf between the rhetoric of politicians and the actual view from the ground of prison reform. One particular stand-out is the extent to which drugs are the cause of incarceration. Half the of the prisoners seem to be there due to some crime related to either being on drugs or supplying drugs. It does make you wonder if more money was put into drug treatment whether we would have a much smaller prison population. It’s also noted the extent to which there is a total failure to keep drugs of prisons.
The second key point made in the book is that a significant percentage of prisoners have some degree of mental health problem, yet the care is essentially non-existent. It’s not great out of prison either but of course prisoners will get the worse end of shortages.
A third point is that many in prison have been failed by the education system and are functionally illiterate. It is no wonder they may turn to crime if they lack even the most basic of skills needed to get a job. However prison doesn’t do much to rectify that.
The chronic shortage of prison officers leads to prisoners being locked up 23 hours a day. Prisoners are not even unlocked for basic hygiene for days at a time. Access to phone calls to family is limited and at exploitative prices and few visits are allowed. These issues just exacerbate the problems in a viscous cycle.
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AnnPan
An eye-opening account
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2020
I drive past Wandsworth Prison several days a week and a mate was an IMB visitor there for many years so I already had an interest and a few clues about what went on inside …. I thought. Also a young medic friend has described some of his research material on prisoner medical care. None of it prepared me for this account. It’s not the insanity, the drugs nor the violence – it’s the sheer bloody-minded, heartless, thoughtless, money-wasting inefficiency of every part of Chris’s experience that is so very shocking. Add this account to those given by The Secret Barrister and be very afraid of being caught up in our British judicial system.
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Olesha
Black Comedy That’ll Raise A Smile
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2020
Bought this as it seemed intriguing that an Oxford-educated documentary maker found himself in the Wandsworth Big House for a five-year stretch for fraud. I’ve only read the first couple of chapters but they promise to make the rest of the book an interesting read. The author has a nice line in self-deprecatory humour and, commendably, doesn’t indulge in self-pity. Rather, he knows how to make the reader laugh out loud, which isn’t bad given the subject matter. Well worth a read as it’s both thoughtful and funny. Recommended.A Bit of a Stretch The Diaries of a Prisoner PDF
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