Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton
The Gruesome True Story of a Man Who Survived Thailand's Deadliest Prison
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Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton
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Narrated by:
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Jim Frangione
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By:
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T. M. Hoy
About this listen
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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Editor reviews
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.
Incredible and gripping.
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this one stands out it's unforgettable
real life horror written by a highly intelligent articulate man.
the kind of book that would definitely snap you out of feeling sorry for yourself
This book will blow your mind
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
it could do with more of a narrative rather than a series of separate storiesHow would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
it'd be a little conceited to offer suggestions to change a true story....Which character – as performed by Jim Frangione – was your favourite?
the gauloise smoking Frenchman.Do you think Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
the story seems pretty complete to me.Any additional comments?
it removed any last inclination I had to smuggle heroin through SE Asiaan interesting story...
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Admittedly went on a little too long for me but I did enjoy.
3.5
Educational
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Excellent
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Well???
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For books on prison life, in my opinion, there are much better books. For me Marching Powder by Rusty Young or Hotel Kerobokan by Kathryn Bonella give a much better account.
Sadly this was a culmination of other people’s narrative that didn’t quite come together as smoothly.
There are better out there.
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Fantastic collection of stories
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Well written and well paced with beautiful narration, I'd recommend this book and really enjoyed it.
Powerful
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it's okay
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