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Latino99
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Finished reading the third book "Bangkok Haunts". In my view, it is definitely better than bankgok tatoo. More into ghosts, religion and khmer. Really astonishing. I enjoyed reading it every second.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:48 am on July 22, 2007
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atl
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latino,
muchas gracias..I was just about to order it and now will....
I never finished tattoo as it got boring..hope haunts is better than bangkok eight..
on another note...does any bro's here know where I can get a copy of "Mr. Nice"???.apparently it is isnt in print and I havnt been able to find it online..
atl
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 7:59 am on July 22, 2007
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Andre
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Has anyone read "The Damage Done" yet? does it worth buying it?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:31 am on July 22, 2007
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atl
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Andre,
finished it in about 7 hours...very good read..
gave it to my dad when he left from visiting me and him and my mom both finished it on the plane ride back to the atl from bkk...
atl
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 1:56 pm on July 22, 2007
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atl
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Let me dust this baby off...
I just saw that the movie "Bangkok 8" is in development and slated for a 2009 release but no website up yet...I look forward to checking it out....I hope it does the book justice....
If anybody missed this thread last summer and is interested in a fiction book centered around Thailand...Bangkok 8 is a good read..
atl
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:29 am on Jan. 16, 2008
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seajohn
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Funny you should mention this. An employee just offered loaning it to me, of all things, early last month; and as I have been reading more difficult works, on a lark I decided to spend a few days and a long train ride with this book.
I like the information about the police networks and the jade. That was interesting to me. It's interesting to me, until he talks about the sex for sale in Bangkok.
Then, I'm afraid, I feel like I'm reading a tourist's fantasies. I mean, the kinds of extended conjectures that any of us put together in our heads after the first couple weeks here. Nice he can articulate it, but in the larger picture, he's a bit out of his depth.
It boils down to, because of lack of experience and trying to appeal to a certain market of other tourists, the same inaccuracy that a lot of these writers make: they write as if the people who live in Bangkok are as concerned about Entertainment Zones like Nana as they are, and as if it's every girl going on the sextrade's ambition to work there. The kind of ideas a newbie gets after a few barside or bedside conversations with a 30 year old bargirl.
Yes, this really started to irritate me, when he waxes philosophical about the lives of girls going to Bangkok to sell their sex. There are so many thousands of girls here selling their body regularly, who have never heard of Soi Cowboy. They live real lives far away from foreigners. They eat food, they go shopping, they sing in karaokes with their friends, they have babies with Thai boyfriends and raise them in small concrete rooms, they have gotten jobs in factories, Lotuses, shops in Bobe, etc, and may again. Bangkok. A real cop in some podunk district (District 8? Unless he made that up, on my map that would be Pom Prap Sattru Phai http://203.155.220.239/subsite/index.php?strOrgID=001046, which is near Bobe market and the Golden Mount; though maybe my map is wrong) would be more concerned with all the pubs, bars, restaurants, brothels and massage parlors on his beat and have some balance in his mind about the real situation and real Thai people and girls and boys and what is really going on. Wouldn't be concentrating on the Tourist Sex Scene as if it's some kind of Shangri La for the girls upcountry.
Anyway, he should keep researching. We all could. It just gets better.
Besides that criticism, which in fairness to the people of Bangkok and Thailand, I feel compelled to make, I also have to state that the ending is ridiculous.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:26 pm on Jan. 16, 2008
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China Sailor
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Spot on sj,
I went LT with a cutie from M2N just after Christmas. She was a dental assistant during the day and worked part-time at M2N in order to hunt down a farang boyfriend. She had a friend who did this, ended up married to her farang, and winning a 'golden ticket to the Promised Land'...
Most people who do not travel to on a regular basis or work in LOS have absolutely no idea of how the bar scene really is.
All they have is their fantasies which are fueled by the 'tall-tales' that are pepetuated by the idiots of low self-esteem who visit LOS once and come home to be the local 'expert'.
As for the writer feeding these myths and fantasies; I was reading an introduction to a novel today in which the writer described a novel as "..a long piece of prose with something wrong in it..
I guess that pretty much sums it up...
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:59 am on Jan. 17, 2008
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Shredded Wheat
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ATL did say it is fiction...
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:17 am on Jan. 17, 2008
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atl
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I also said it was "good"....
stopping short of the "great" stamp of approval 
IMHO.. it was a nice, fast read and I recommend it and will probably go see the movie..
Aside from the book and CS concerning your comment:
"Most people who do not travel to on a regular basis or work in LOS have absolutely no idea of how the bar scene really is.
All they have is their fantasies which are fueled by the 'tall-tales' that are pepetuated by the idiots of low self-esteem who visit LOS once and come home to be the local 'expert'"
I am on board with you there.....
atl
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:29 pm on Jan. 17, 2008
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