8810
Nicholas Taylor returns to us today with a new book he’s making available as a free serialized audiobook — 8810.
Join Bill Morison on his journey through corporate America, as he learns about auditing insurance and just how irritating people can be. This podcast contains office related humor, inspired by the author’s experiences in navigating through corporate life. If you’ve ever worked in an office with coworkers you just couldn’t understand, you will find yourself reminiscing about that weird guy that always hung out at the water cooler.
WARNING: The characters, names, and events in this podcast novel are purely fictional. Any reference to real people is purely coincidental. Should you think that you are represented in this podcast novel and have worked with the author, please see above. That being said, if you still having a nagging suspicion that you are depicted in this podcast novel and don’t like your how your character is portrayed, think about how bad it must have been for the author working around you.
As our standard procedure, we’ve released the first five episodes today. You can snatch them all up in the default feed and deal with the schedule Nicholas has for future releases, or you can take full control of how many and how often new episodes come down to you with a custom feed.
And if you want more from Nicholas, check out Legon Awakening.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
This should be fixed now. Sorry about that.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:15 am
The proper name of the Hutt language is “Huttese” rather than “Huttonese”. That’s the secret language Timothy and Lauren Hutton speak to each other at their SAG meetings.
Yes, I have too much time on my hands.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Yes, Yes you do….
February 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Thanks Zeus I’ll be sure to correct that in the print version.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 pm
This book is at best average. Four episodes in, which I think a reasonable length of time to give any book, I had to call it a day. It has an insipid, erratic, poorly planned, storyline without much direction and less engagement. Nothing essentially happens here, and the skill of the author that imparts the mundane isn’t sufficient to maintain any reasonable level of interest.
The characters have a very distinct ‘paint by numbers’ feel to them that makes them seem isolated from each other and the story. Any real continuity is lost in a documentary type account of office happenings which lacks any real humour and could quite probably be any office workers boring daily existence.
It can be quite time consuming wading through stories on this site trying to find good ones, so I have primarily taken to listening to stories in the charts as an exercise in time conservation. I was consequently quite surprised when I started listening to this one which was chart listed, but fell somewhat below par in my opinion. It needs a lot of work and the author has a long way to go before this is anywhere near acceptable.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Sorry about the delay on episode 9 there is some technical problems, I’m not to sure how long its going to take to fix I want to say within a day or so. In the mean time episode 9 is available at LegoBook.com, sorry for the hold up.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I think this book is hilarious. It reminds me of so many people that I work with. I can totally relate to the hum drum life the main charater has. I think that anyone who has worked in a boring job with wackadoo coworkers could relate to the antics of Bill.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I would also disagree. The book is fun. The office antics are what makes it humorous even if you haven’t work in an office.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Great book. I listen to podcasts while piloting my cubicle through the day. This is exactly what I need. Also, being a Denver native, I appreciate the local references.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’m done with the book and enjoyed it. It does get funnier towards the end and ends on a high note. I enjoyed it. Thanks Nick!
April 19th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I had a lot of fun listening to this book. It was actually the first podiobook I downloaded, so I feel like I’m off to a good start!
The characters were funny, and I got wrapped up in the way they interacted with each other. Made me laugh out loud in a lot of places.
Good work, Nick!
April 27th, 2009 at 8:07 am
quite a well done podiobook. i’ve burned through about 20 or so books and yours is definitely near the top in terms of story quality, which, IMHO, is the hardest thing to ‘do’ in writing. everything else can be improved with merely more practice/time. so you’re doing well.
look forward to your next project.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:56 am
This podiobook didn’t have an intergalactic war, nothing about the french revolution, and no profound thesis about the ethical implications of human society…..BUT
It was a really fun book, full of humour, quirky characters, nice dialogue, and i really enjoyed it. Thanks for making my office days a little more fun.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Listening to the fourth installment. This is like the audio version of the Dilbert comic strip. That is meant as a compliment. Having worked for the company that sets the rates and determines the classifications for workers comp insurance, I can totally relate to the shenanigans and corporate bone-headedness related in the story.
The author’s dry, almost Steven Wright-like delivery makes it that much better.
Kudos on the homages to the other podcasts and podcasters we all know and love.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
It’s BW3, not BW2.
Yeah, yeah, work of fiction, and in this fictional world the wing joint is called BW2. No, it’s BW3.
January 7th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Brian,
Thanks for the heads up, we are talking about the same place everyone I know here in Denver knows it as BW2. But your right I wikipedia’d it, either way we are still talking about the same great restaurant. The one in the book is the actual, the restaurant is there. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the book!
Nick
January 7th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Wow, my post seems really snarky now that I look at it. Sorry ’bout that.
I used to live in Highlands Ranch, so it was cool to hear all the references to places I’m familiar with.
I did enjoy the book, and I have Legon Awakening loaded up.
Thanks!