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Hermanolobo
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This book is incredible !
It was written in 1956 !
Not 1976 or 1996 but.....
1956 !
All the same scams, tricks attitudes, nuances etc etc are
there ! At times it gets so close to situations I have experinced it becomes scary.
Reading it I had to keep pitching myself that this book was not written last year !!!
Remarkable.
Jack Reynolds has caught the essence of Thai ladies.
He must have experienced the scene 45 or so years ago !
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:28 am on April 1, 2003
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Arcadius
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As H says, the book is "A Woman of Bangkok" by Jack Reynolds. 1st publ in 1956, but reprinted often enough since then & frequently available in BKK.
Brilliant stuff! This is real literature & not just another salacious pot-boiler. The BKK he describes is very different from the BKK of 2003, but the psychology of relationships beween BGs and their clients doesn't seem to have altered at all. Plus you get the best 'internal' description of the BG mentality I've ever read in English.
Often easy enough to get hold of a reprint at Asia Books. If not, well worth trying to track down a 2nd hand copy on the net.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 7:36 am on April 1, 2003
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FarangBha
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Here here .... some basard took my copy back home with him...
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:34 am on April 1, 2003
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Hermanolobo
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Arcadius makes all the right points !
To my mind this book is streets ahead of anything I have read set in Siam.
It is such a pleasure to read 'real literature' than todays pulp fiction. Author has been to the 'How to write a novel course' and reworked a well known formula.
Whoops did I say John Grisham?
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:46 am on April 1, 2003
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Hermanolobo
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On the inside cover it says that Jack Reynolds was part of an Ambulance Corps or some such in China in 1951.
I think some people know how to write to begin with. I know he has written one other book. I would have liked to know more about his life as he seems to have a profound insight on Thailand. Another Jim Thompson ???
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:49 am on April 1, 2003
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califdann
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Did a search on Amazon.com...
No luck for A Woman of Bangkok" by Jack Reynolds
DMC
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:56 pm on April 1, 2003
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nokna
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thought i had found details of a film of the book in 1991.
same title,same subject but experiences of someone else.
(have been a naughty boy,edited my original post.
but within 4 minutes,apologies all round).
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:12 am on April 2, 2003
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MrJoe
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Last year I recommended this book on this board (I think), as I have to many over the years; I'm really pleased some have discovered it because it's always been my impression that not many have. I think it's not that well known.
I stumbled upon it way back when I had been here not long but long enough to have already been through the baptism of fire and as Hermano and Arcadius pointed out I was absolutely amazed at how the story could have been set then (early 80s). A great read.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:28 am on April 2, 2003
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