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You Might Feel a Little Prick Kindle Edition

by Reuben Leder (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A screaming snowman plummets from the top floor of Cleveland Mercy Hospital—a decaying relic built before the first pandemic—and disappears into the snow drifts below. By the time his thawed corpse is discovered the following spring, a body count of incompetents, frauds, and crooks who call this chamber of horrors home, has snowballed.

Could these "disappearances" have anything to do with the bogus—and disastrous—spine operation performed on local hero Nick Glass, a former ballplayer? Or the wrongful termination of Nick's fiancé, Dr. Julie Toffoli, an idealistic intern not afraid to speak truth to power? It's up to celebrity Homicide cop, Artemas Sikorski, working his careercapping case, to find out.

Hysterically funny, troubling, and finally moving, YOU MIGHT FEEL A LITTLE PRICK answers the question we've all been asked by someone in a white coat: Just what is your level of pain?
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"You Might Feel a Little Prick" is a wickedly funny take on our profitized health care system. The author is endlessly inventive, delivering a cascade of surprising and satisfying plot twists. Most impressive is that underlying the wild antics, is a genuine tenderness. Mr. Leder has managed the nearly impossible task of balancing satire with pathos. Bravo!"

Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider, Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider - Multiple WGA and PGA Nominated Producers and Writers of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire

"A pure delight... Funny fluid, and engaging."
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About the Author

Reuben Leder is a film and TV writer, director, and producer. In addition to receiving Emmy nominations for MAGNUM P.I., he was also recognized by the voters of the WGA for participating in the writing of the "101 Best Written TV Series", STAR TREK: TNG.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B093XZGRST
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ FriesenPress; 1st edition (April 29, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 29, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1402 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
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    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

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Reuben Leder grew up in the indie film world, along with his sisters—director Mimi Leder and casting director Geraldine Leder—working on the ultra-low-budget films made by their father Paul Leder. Reuben's movie education included apprenticeships in every department: including writing.

He went on to sell several original screenplays to just about every major studio. That led to assignments and production rewrites that took him all over the globe. Reuben also wrote and directed the feature film BALTIC STORM, a fact-based political thriller examining the tragic North Sea sinking of the ferry 'Estonia'. It starred Greta Scacchi and Donald Sutherland.

One of a pair of screenplays Reuben sold to DreamWorks, SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, originated by his father, is a WWII story based on the experiences of his parents, Etyl, a concentration camp survivor, and his father, a combat medic in Patton's Army that liberated Buchenwald.

Concurrently, Reuben began a long career in TV, starting as a story editor on THE INCREDIBLE HULK, then writing and producing the first 6 seasons of MAGNUM P.I. for which he received 2 Emmy nominations; however, he's most proud of a Magnum script he wrote and directed that received NAACP Image Award nominations for some of the guest actors. Numerous other TV pilots and showrunning gigs followed, including his own creation, BERLIN BREAK, a post-Cold War spy thriller shot in Berlin. He was also recognized by the voters of the WGA for participating in the writing of the "101 Best Written TV Series", STAR TREK: TNG.

Presently, Reuben has completed YOU MIGHT FEEL A LITTLE PRICK, a pre-Covid novel based that takes a satiric look at the medical and health insurance underworlds. YMFALP will be released in May 2021.

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Nothing Funny About Pain, Except The Book It Inspired!
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Nothing Funny About Pain, Except The Book It Inspired!
Anyone who has been hospitalized, known someone or cared for someone dealing with medical issues, you will find much to relate to in You Might Feel a Little Prick. This book is clearly well researched but doesn't come across as a medical book. At all. Footnotes, which I usually skip, are really interesting, funny and cool unlike those you usually find in academic type texts, which this isn't so don't skip them. You'll learn stuff that will make you an interesting party guest. This book reminds you that right and wrong are defined by many factors. Just read it. Definitely a new, needed voice.
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T&D S.
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Ride!
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2022
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With popular literary themes on the current market, an occasional Gem with a humorous theme has found it's way into the field. Such is Reuben Leder's You Might Feel A Little Prick. From the opening pages describing the snow bound city of Cleveland's Mercy Hospital, and main character Nick Glass, the author seamlessly takes us on a roller coaster ride with Flashbacks, the Present and the Future. While there, we are introduced to unforgettable characters with a gamut of situations and emotions that kept me so involved through the surprise ending.
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J Sarah
5.0 out of 5 stars If It Didn't Hurt So Much, It Would Be Funny
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2021
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Actually, it is funny and painful at the same time.
Dark comedy at its best in the corridors of a hospital of horrors.
An original wry sense of humor guides an edgily suspenseful tale that unfortunately mirrors the sorrows and atrocities that many experience at the hands of health care institutions more concerned with profits and reputations than well being.
Reuben Leder somehow keeps the story outrageous and fanciful, yet plausible and taut.
A read you will find hard to believe you have so enjoyed while holding onto your painfully aching sides.
Original, engaging, heartfelt, and yes - painful and funny. Not to be missed and highly recommended!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Funny About Pain, Except The Book It Inspired!
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021
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Anyone who has been hospitalized, known someone or cared for someone dealing with medical issues, you will find much to relate to in You Might Feel a Little Prick. This book is clearly well researched but doesn't come across as a medical book. At all. Footnotes, which I usually skip, are really interesting, funny and cool unlike those you usually find in academic type texts, which this isn't so don't skip them. You'll learn stuff that will make you an interesting party guest. This book reminds you that right and wrong are defined by many factors. Just read it. Definitely a new, needed voice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Funny About Pain, Except The Book It Inspired!
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021
Anyone who has been hospitalized, known someone or cared for someone dealing with medical issues, you will find much to relate to in You Might Feel a Little Prick. This book is clearly well researched but doesn't come across as a medical book. At all. Footnotes, which I usually skip, are really interesting, funny and cool unlike those you usually find in academic type texts, which this isn't so don't skip them. You'll learn stuff that will make you an interesting party guest. This book reminds you that right and wrong are defined by many factors. Just read it. Definitely a new, needed voice.
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Elaine Nolan
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021
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Little slow at the beginning. But got better as it went. Good first book.
Enjoyed a few chuckles in the later chapters.
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J.D. Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this Book. Pure Genius!
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
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This book by Reuben Leder blew my mind! Every once in awhile you pick up a book and literally fall into it. That was this book for me. What a journey. So brilliantly written. The twist and turns, the characters, the humor, the brilliant truth of the medical world. I didn't want this book to end! Truly. Bravo!
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J.D. Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this Book. Pure Genius!
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
This book by Reuben Leder blew my mind! Every once in awhile you pick up a book and literally fall into it. That was this book for me. What a journey. So brilliantly written. The twist and turns, the characters, the humor, the brilliant truth of the medical world. I didn't want this book to end! Truly. Bravo!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining/Hilarious
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2021
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"You Might Feel a Little Prick" is an absurdly droll medical comedy, festooned with chapter titles like High C on the Butt Trumpet. I couldn't stop laughing, but I wanted to cry because this is really happening in our hospitals. YMFALP is an insightful and incisive dark caricature of the medical profession. It is written juxtaposing writing styles evocative of Dickens, Vonnegut and Heller, about how the medical industrial complex and the psycho institutional pharmaceutical and insurance industry paractce medicine by algorithm and operational ethics. The book weaves together disparate twisting threads until all's well that ends well, mostly...
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R. Leader
5.0 out of 5 stars There's a balance I didn't expect...
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021
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I read the book description and thought YOU MIGHT FEEL A LITTLE PRICK sounded like a revenge fantasy. But there's more to it than that. Yeah, it's really dark and funny, and the villains get what they deserve in some really creative ways -- I almost lost my popcorn a couple of times. But there's an underlying message delivered via the Julie character. She represents the doctors who are drawn to the profession for the right reasons: to help their fellow humans. In these times, this is a book we can all relate to.
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S. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read.
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021
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When you find an author who combines great creativity and humor with the verbal style to express them, you know you're in for a fun ride. Reuben Leder takes us on a satiric trip through one of our largest corporate mazes--the American healthcare system. There are self-aggrandizing big shots, idealistic professionals, dedicated employees, and just-here-for-the-paycheck slackers aplenty. Their efforts for good and ill revolve around Nick Glass, who comes to their hospital with a bad back, and is lucky to escape with his life.
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