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The real-life account of an American serving time in a Thailand prison, Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton summons listeners to a gruesome realm of chronic hunger, unchecked violence, torture, degradation, and extortion. Performer Jim Frangione speaks with the resigned disquiet of an inmate struggling to come to grips with the cruelest confinement, his hushed baritone punctuated by shock and disgust as bizarre, often gruesome, prison rituals unfold routinely. T. M. Hoy's memoir, written in the hope he might bribe his way to freedom using its proceeds, is sure to inflame and excite listeners with its unnerving portrayal of a third world penal system.
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A collection of unspeakable degradation, fear, and agony through the eyes of an American locked up abroad.
Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner (farang) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality. Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton is a collection of short stories chronicling T. M. Hoy’s descent into the harrowing world of Southeast Asian prison life. Through his eyes, listeners will experience the bizarre events of daily life in a Thai maximum security prison: feel the weight of the chains he wears; the stomachaches from lack of food; witness the murders, drug overdoses, torture, and unbridled cruelty that ensues.
Sentenced to life in prison, Hoy does his best to accept the fate he’s been given. While attempting to "adjust" to this third-world hellhole, he contracts tuberculosis and nearly loses his life.
Hoy’s stories are brutal and his words are heart-wrenching. Go places you’ve only seen in your nightmares, to a world in which few survive, and none emerge unscathed...and if you’re lucky, you’ll die before you really begin to suffer.
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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The Damage Done
- Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
- De: Warren Fellows
- Narrado por: David Tredinnick
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising blows, and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable -- in every way! Every minute is great
- De Eric Schurr en 12-05-13
De: Warren Fellows
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Hotel K (Kerobokan)
- De: Kathryn Bonella
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.
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1 out of 5 stars
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nope.
- De Nick en 08-05-17
De: Kathryn Bonella
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Serpentine
- De: Thomas Thompson
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 24 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 106
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There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions, and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for the same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka "The Serpent". A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the "hippie trail" between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naive travelers into a life of crime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story / Weak Narration
- De Chandelle en 10-09-18
De: Thomas Thompson
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Schindler's List
- De: Thomas Keneally
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 488
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An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden — Schindler’s Jews — to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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really well done
- De Neil H. Greenberg en 03-09-19
De: Thomas Keneally
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- De: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrado por: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing. Horrifying. But true.
- De Daniel W. Fox, Jr. en 03-23-22
De: Chris Lockhart, y otros
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Escape from Alcatraz
- De: J. Campbell Bruce
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, called "The Rock" and known for its harsh conditions. This gripping true crime classic, originally written in 1963 and newly reissued, tells the story of life on The Rock and of 14 ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Escape from Alcatraz
- De john en 12-15-10
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Naples '44
- De: Norman Lewis
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas. There is suffering and squalor: Criminal gangs are on the rise, along with typhus and black market commerce, and the female population is forced into part-time prostitution. But there is farce and humor, too, witnessed in the Roman uncle paid handsomely simply to appear at funerals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sharply observed, beautifully written, and deeply humane
- De cw en 11-13-23
De: Norman Lewis
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The Darling
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Mary Beth Hurt
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 378
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The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and compelling
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 02-05-05
De: Russell Banks
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City of Thorns
- Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
- De: Ben Rawlence
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of Northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic; its entire economy is gray; and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling but dry
- De Megan en 09-16-16
De: Ben Rawlence
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- De: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrado por: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The bar of manhood
- De Rhea en 09-22-13
De: Witold Pilecki, y otros
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Brothers of the Gun
- De: Marwan Hisham, Molly Crabapple
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends - fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq - joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria, in response to a recent massacre. Arm in arm they marched, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas, ran from the security forces, and cursed the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed, at last, imminent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful memoir of Syrian war
- De Jennifer Friedman en 08-21-19
De: Marwan Hisham, y otros
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The Fear
- De: Peter Godwin
- Narrado por: Peter Godwin
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Born in what’s now called Zimbabwe, journalist Peter Godwin returns to his homeland in 2008 after three decades of Robert Mugabe’s brutal economic and human destruction. Hoping to “dance on Mugabe’s political grave” in the wake of the tyrant’s defeat at the polls, Godwin instead risks his life to secretly chronicle Mugabe’s ruthless backlash of torture and terror locals call “The Fear.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read at your own Risk!
- De Jim en 05-05-15
De: Peter Godwin
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The Stories of Eva Luna
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Pena
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
Immerse yourself in a world of love, vengeance, compassion, and irony with the evocative stories of Eva Luna. Author Isabel Allende introduced this well-loved character to audiences in her earlier novel, Eva Luna. Listen to Allende talk about the role of writing in her life in Giving Birth, Finding Form. This program also features Alice Walker and Jean Shinoda Bolen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better some Allende than no Allende
- De Perschon en 12-04-14
De: Isabel Allende
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
- De: Emma Larkin
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, she has come to know all too well the many ways this police state can be described as "Orwellian". The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has. The connection between George Orwell and Burma is not simply metaphorical, of course; Orwell's mother was born in Burma, and he was shaped by his experiences there as a young man working for the British Imperial Police.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Orwell's Horrors Brought to Life
- De Roger en 09-21-10
De: Emma Larkin
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Country of Ash
- A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
- De: Edward Reicher, Magda Bogin - translator
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De valia en 07-12-15
De: Edward Reicher, y otros
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Maya's Notebook
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Maria Cabezas
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 410
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Neglected by her parents, 19-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nini is a force of nature, a woman whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973. Popo, Maya's grandfather, is a gentle man whose solid, comforting presence helps calm the turbulence of Maya's adolescence. When Popo dies of cancer, Maya goes completely off the rails, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crime in a downward spiral that eventually bottoms out in Las Vegas.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruins this book
- De R.J. Mulder en 05-13-14
De: Isabel Allende
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- Eric Schurr
- 04-02-14
Extremely well-written, very captivating
If you'd like to know what life is like inside what is considered to be the worst prison in the world, listen to this book.
The stories in it are truly remarkable. So disgusting and revolting there are sometimes hard to believe.
The author has an exceptional grasp of the English language. The writing is really creative and superb. Sometimes it's so good it's a bit over the top.
I didn't give it a 5 overall because the book is a series of stories, rather than one story. As such, it can feel a bit disjoint at times. For example, you won't find out why the author is in jail until the end of the book. I personally didn't like that.
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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- Keith
- 05-27-20
DISAPPOINTING
This book gets very boring with unnecessary to in-depth background history of some of the other inmates. It felt like fillers were added to lengthen the story.
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