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Hermanolobo
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Discounting Garland's The Beach - I wondered if many of you have read any novels set in Thailand. I have read 'Private Dancer' and 'Solitary Man' By Stephen Leather and good reads they were. I have also read 'The Big Mango' by Jake Needham which wasn't bad. I understand there are quite a few books on this genre. Thai authors? Paul Andrax is the only one I have read.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:43 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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ringthebells
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theres an author who has two books out. it is about this art hunter based in bkk. one was about the buddhas head and the otherone about dschinghis khans terracotta army.
one is called thai gold, can't think of the other and the name of the author.
but both are a good read. IMHO better then what you mentionned.
rtb.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 6:51 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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Arcadius
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There's a novel called "A Woman of Bangkok' by Jack Reynolds. Dates from the mid 50s, but is sometimes reprinted & available in LOS.
Usual story - one guy's disastrous relationship with a BG. Obviously, the external scene in BKK has altered out of sight over 50 years, but it's fascinating to see how the fundamentals haven't really changed at all.
This book is of a much higher literary quality than most others in the genre. A thunderous good read.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:02 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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Sauron
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Thai Gold was by Jason whatshisname and was not very memorable except for the writing in of (Bangkok Post's) Alan Dawson and (retired spook and former Bangkok Airways managing director) Bob Moberg in roman a clef fashion.
Book is about 16 yrs old.
I recommend our very own Bkktonite brother Dean Barrett's works, he whose LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE tells a truly apt moral about LOS...nothing is what it seems to be, no one is what they say they are. And unlike the many Canadian wannabe writers who have a go at Thermae and then wax moralistic, Dean doesn't preach about the nightlife. As a 37 year vet of Thailand and former publisher/editor of SAWASDEE Magazine, he knows what he is talking about.
His non-Thailand based novels and plays are also all excellent. He even did some sort Asian SM porn (sorry I mean erotic fantasy.)
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 8:10 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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Hermanolobo
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Thanks lads keep those titles coming(no pun intended).
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:43 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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nikko
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I enjoyed Jasmine Nights by SP Somtow (Sucharitkul). Not really about expat life or p4p scene but a good read. For a non-fiction look at the Thai's through a western female ajarn's eyes I thought Mai Pen Rai by Carol Hollinger was good also (no idea of whether her observations are really accurate but she loves the thai's). That Thai Gold book might be 16 years old but it was released over the summer as if it were a new release.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:01 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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Hermanolobo
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I have seen a poster for a book called something like
'Apsara jet' don't know the author but the poster had a picture of a McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-63.
Has anybody read it ???
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:52 am on Feb. 4, 2003
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bangkropolis2020
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I recently read a book called "4000 days"
a very quick read about a man spending "4000 days"
in the thailand prison system for getting caught with heroin..He's not the most gifted writer in the world (IMO)but the story stands on its own as one of the most fascinating i've ever read..
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:48 pm on Feb. 4, 2003
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FarangBha
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Also recommend 'a woman of bangkok'. Great read. Still pertinant. Unbelievable how the TG mindset was like it is today, even then. And the gullible farangs.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:09 am on Feb. 5, 2003
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Tyler Durdin
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I got the book "4 Reigns" for Christmas, (Thai title is "Sii Pandin" ), about a woman who lives through 4 reigns starting from King Chulangkorn. I don't think it refers to the naughty nightlife at all, I just started reading it (2nd chapter) but is interesting enough to keep my attention so far (that says a lot).
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:50 pm on Feb. 5, 2003
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