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Underdog
- A Definitive History of Pelican Bay State Prison's Super Max (Prison Killers - Book 4)
- Narrated by: Christopher Wells
- Series: Prison Killers, Book 4
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
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Publisher's Summary
The California Prison System houses a mixture of Mexican cartel members, Mexican mafia, Bloods, Crips, and thousands of other street gangs fighting for control and the author turns this story into a pulp thriller of true crime.
Glenn Langohr takes you on a journey back into prison as he remembers a prison war with the Mexican Mafia before his release date. Days later, he got released. His friend he was in the deadly riot with didn't. He went to Pelican Bay's Super Max.
The story follows Glenn Langohr years later as he visits his friend in Pelican Bay during a prisoner developed hunger strike against sadistic and cruel guards who get off on their isolation and enjoy adding violence to their torture.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- annewbe
- 10-09-12
Good
I really enjoyed listening about the prison system in CA. The story was very interesting. I would recommend.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- RJ Parker, PhD
- 05-31-12
Captivating and Symbolic
Would you consider the audio edition of Underdog to be better than the print version?
UNDERDOG by Glenn Langohr is a well written true prison story fraught with emotion and detail. At the beginning of the book, the author and his wife visits an animal shelter to adopt a dog. The poor dogs were totally neglected in their cages, much like the prisoners in the hole, they too were in cages. The author reveals a story about the hunger strike and the beating of prisoners. You would never hear about this in the media.
The book is true. It's fact of what's going on in the prison system. Ironically, this book was released just one day after prisoner Christian Alexander Gomez, 27, dies during the hunger strike in a California prison.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 08-09-18
New slavery
Good real life illustration showing how prison is the new slavery and benefits from inmate labor
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Eddie Wittern
- 06-16-18
realistic and accurate view from the inside
Exceptionally well written. I enjoyed this book and it's gritty subject matter. It's a non flinching and realistic account of life on the inside I reccomend the entire series. A very hard book to put down or stop listening to as an audio book.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- AR Cabral
- 05-20-17
CDC Hell on earth
Really sad what the CDC system is doing to these inmate and their attorneys.
Open your eye's to the CDC system in California.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Alex J.
- 07-01-16
Narrator
I like Glenn's books, but only when he narrates them also. This guy sounds like some accountant trying to be hard. Couldn't even finish
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Colman
- 03-06-14
Very boring
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
If there was less dull information and more of a story
What could Glenn Langohr have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Have an interesting story to tell
How could the performance have been better?
Maybe being able to write a story with a beginning middle and end
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Some parts were interesting but not new information