No One Knows How I Suffer
Podiobooks.com brings you a new collection from Tim Hall, “No One Knows How I Suffer:”
What do a barstool revolutionary, gangsta poet, self-promoting author, online dating scammer, and sleazy record producer all have in common?
Please join us as we take a journey into the darkest heart of alternative culture, dating, and failed romance by a notorious Gen-X writer. An 8-episode podiobooks.com exclusive premiere!
March 25th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Thank you! It’s great to be here. I hope people will forgive the shaky quality on the first episode, I’ve upgraded my microphone since then. Still getting the hang of it, etc.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:40 am
When I saw “Nobody knows How I Suffer” in the Blog listing here, I thought to myself that this entry might be about the disruption. To my surprise its the title of a book. Proof that good Titles are still a must to grab readers/listeners attention. (for whatever reason). I’ll be ‘trying’ to subscribe to book.
I mention trying. I am down to the last two chapters of two books and the site has this major “disruption”. and I just can’t get them. I’m going through major withdrawal. I”m not sure if the delay problem is on the site’s or the writer’s end of the situation. I’m looking around to find and purchase the books, so I can get to the ending. I just can’t stand being in the middle of the climax/resolution and not finishing. Maybe “Nobody Knows…” will get me through through this disruption.
Maybe I’ll only subscribe to completed books from here on out. I’m not sure if I go through this again. Listening & Reading 2-3 books at once is pretty obsessive anyway.
March 29th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Tim, I’m enjoying your stories! Thanks!
April 9th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for the comments, glad you’re enjoying the stories. I’ll be uploading the remaining episodes soon, but I’ve also been slowed down by the site delays, hoping they would be resolved soon and wondering if anybody was even listening. I appreciate you both letting me know at least somebody is!
April 27th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Good selection of stories, they were entertaining.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:50 am
These stories are terrible. They’re all about actual persons. Tim Hall’s only genre is revenge-a-clef.
“Mishkin” is a libelous attack on Karl Wenclas of the Underground Literary Alliance. You might love that group or not, but Tim’s attack is cowardly and deceitful, not to mention thoroughly self-serving.
Plus, he doesn’t do voices very well. His thick voice, clotted with spit and snot, bothers me to the point of wanting to irrigate my sinuses.
Please don’t remove this comment, because your readers have a right to hear the negative as well as the positive. Tim Hall is going to report this as “abuse,” but it’s the TRUTH.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 am
re: Charles le Froid
I’ve listened to the stories and I found the quite entertaining. I (probably like most of those who listened to them) don’t know or give a rats ass about Karl Wenclas.
Anyway Tim, keep it up.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Thanks, karel, I appreciate it. As for “charles le froid,” that’s actually my emotionally disturbed older brother, Jonathan B. Hall, who has been cyberstalking and bullying me for nearly 8 years and who is suffering from severe paranoid delusions that I’m persecuting him–even though I’ve had zero contact with him since early 2001. He adopted the “Chilly Charlie”/Charles Le Froid handles around November 2005 in order to attack me online, viciously and anonymously, while claiming I’m guilty of all sorts of terrible crimes. I finally had to call the police on him back in December of 2007 after positively identifying him, and he’s been shut down ever since, but he’s still crazy.
Jonathan’s sick stalking of me led him Wenclas, who I was fighting with after he (Wenclas) attacked a writer I knew and liked. I told Wenclas to shove it in a flame war in a comments section, and “Charlie” came out of the woodwork and began his psychotic attacks against me. Look at “Charles”’s comment here, the stuff about my being “clotted with blood and snot.” What kind of maniac writes that kind of shit? My brother, that’s who. (my problem was actually a cheap lavalier mic that was clipped right under my throat and gave everything a very muffled, deep sound, but whatever).
My stories are satirical, but I’m usually the biggest idiot in them (in the story that “Charles” is raving about the narrator is the failed self-published author of a novel called “The Cheese-Thunderer’s God,” who actually loses everything at the end but gains a little sad wisdom in return–story of my life). Hardly the stuff of Hemingwayan self-promotion.
If you want to learn more about it click my name to get to my site, then hit the category “stalker” in the right hand column. It’s a sad, sick story.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Correction: got my stories mixed up…in the story Charles is raving about the narrator is a slacker journalist who doesn’t want to join a revolutionary cause because he might miss his favorite Thai food and not be able to give a talk at a literary function. In other words, my first-person narrators are almost always absurd.
As for “Mishkin,” he’s a recurring character is several of my stories, a self-proclaimed revolutionary goofball, the sort of guy who hands out photocopied screeds on street corners about how “AMERIKKKA IS PWNED BY DA MILITARY!!1!” He’s right out of central casting, and if you’ve been in the zine world especially then you’ve met a hundred people like him.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I don’t know any more how many podiobooks, podcasts ore online shows I have consumed over the two three last years, but It’s easy to see I am an total addict.
I draw and design for a living, so it is the perfect thing for me to have in the background after I’ve done all the brain work for the day ( about 10 min each day:-).
Especially online books has become some of my finest times during my day (I work from I get up until I stumble in bed cos I love my work to obsession).
I am telling you this so you know my next statement is built upon a vast amount of experience, and is not a loose thought shoot from the hip on a hunch.
OK here it comes…
This is the absolute BEST audio book I have EVER listened too.
There is only one flaw and one flaw only…it’s much too short.
The characters are spot on in every case (even though a tad over the top here and there, but that’s just charming and in this case fully justified), and keeps you smiling and chuckling throughout the whole collection.
I even got shot ( and mortally wounded) a few times myself (Chinaski publishing…..I have a band called the Chinaski and that wasn’t the only hit I took in that short story….cool
If you don’t like this book ore don’t “get” ANY! of the characters in here, there must be something very wrong with you ore you might be stupid…..actually too stupid to live safely on your own so I recommend seeking professional help at any rate.
Ore you might be the son ore daughter of some over protecting rich shit, and thus without life experience what so ever…witch actually puts you right up in category number one among the daft ones.
Ore in short, this is a fantastic audiobook and I recommend it of all my heart…
thank you
P.S. Someone see to that this person get a price ore something…NOW!
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