New books about life in Thailand..

[BKK Blues Brother]

Lots of new books on life in Thailand being released lately.
 


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[mrtoad]

Would those books be by The Blether who used to post here? Think I'll look for stuff that's written by people that actually have lived in Thailand. Edited August 3, 2014 by mrtoad

[benalibina]

Would those books be by The Blether who used to post here? Think I'll look for stuff that's written by people that actually have lived in Thailand.

My guess is...yes. He stopped posting here to write some books, of what i remember.

[mrtoad]

No, he stopped writing here as he got banned. But, yes, I agree it probably is him.

[rgs2001uk]

Wow, whats happened to my screen, might have to upgrade to a new 50" screen.

Any chance of making that uploaded illustration a bit bigger, having trouble reading it.

 

 

Just saying.

[Crazy chef 1]

Wow, whats happened to my screen, might have to upgrade to a new 50" screen.
Any chance of making that uploaded illustration a bit bigger, having trouble reading it.
 
 
Just saying.

good one!

[Crazy chef 1]

Wow, whats happened to my screen, might have to upgrade to a new 50" screen.
Any chance of making that uploaded illustration a bit bigger, having trouble reading it.
 
 
Just saying.

good one!

[tonytigerbkk]

No, he stopped writing here as he got banned. But, yes, I agree it probably is him.

 

Hi Toady, looking at the titles of his books, they could all so easily be thread tiles on TVF.

Do you think that The Blether did all of his research in the Pub forum?

[tonytigerbkk]

I'm just waiting for his new book 'TGAU, how it saved my life'.

[mrtoad]

No, he stopped writing here as he got banned. But, yes, I agree it probably is him.

 
Hi Toady, looking at the titles of his books, they could all so easily be thread tiles on TVF.
Do you think that The Blether did all of his research in the Pub forum?

Well, it certainly wasn't done from any practical experience of living here. If you got to Amazon, he's written a few more, all with great titles.

[mrtoad]

I'm just waiting for his new book 'TGAU, how it saved my life'.

Or

"How to milk a Badger, in 10 practical steps".

[tonytigerbkk]

 

I'm just waiting for his new book 'TGAU, how it saved my life'.

Or

"How to milk a Badger, in 10 practical steps".

 

 

You do know that Costas has an Ap on his phone that alerts him every time someone on TVF uses the 'M*lk' word, don't you.

 

Standby, full Costas alert, Greek on the horizon.
 

[mrtoad]

Costas "The Milking Greek"

[BKK Blues Brother]

About the first new release..

Isaan. Northeast Thailand. The furthest reaches of Old Siam. No coastline; no glistening lengths of powdery white sand; no Pad Thai-obsessed tourists; no touts; no taxis; no beggars; no hedonistic nights of extreme debauchery. Nothing. Just a whole lot of jungle. During a visit to Bangkok, I once saw a rack of t-shirts proclaiming that ‘good guys go to heaven and bad guys go to Pattaya’. Nothing for Isaan though. After all, who wants to walk around with ‘the clinically stupid’ emblazoned across their chest? I first visited Northeast Thailand in my late twenties. Initially I was appalled by the lack of, well, anything. For a chap hailing from suburban London it felt like I’d alighted into a particularly tedious episode of the Archers. However, the people, the fauna, and indeed the flora, made this impromptu sabbatical a quite extraordinary experience. The stories on the following pages are an account of my years spent in hot and sticky rural Siam

Review..

Following in the footsteps of bestselling author Cornhole Ruin ( A klong too far ) and Somchai ( Eat , Drink ,

drink , drink , sleep ), Steve has written a memoir of his flight to the good life in Nakon Nowhere , Thailand.

"All my life-long, I dreamed of acquiring a Lau Khow addiction and concrete table set," writes the author, a

British actor who starred in an episode of the BBC adaptation of american cables "Cops", When He, spotted a

country shop with a classic concrete table set outside , he defied common sense and merged with the furniture.

Never mind that the shop is moldering and insect-infested, the roof leaks and there doesn't seem to be any running

water. Steve's account of paradise regained involves bushwhacking through the intricacies of Thailand country

etiquette and battling the elements of nature (wind, rain and fire), to say nothing of the eccentric local

population. Alas, the book reads, by turns, like a catalogue of the author's faux pas ("I have a leaking penis!")

and a ponderous love poem ("I have facination with the betel stained mouth of old woman tittyporn"). Still, for all

its false notes, the book describes life in the arse end of Issan - "lau khow , concrete table sets and yaba'd

youths." Many readers will find this idealized portrait of a culture and a way of life most appealing. Steve's book

seems poised to attract fans of Ruin , Somchai and others of the expatriates-in-paradise genre.

 

[BKK Blues Brother]

Honorary Consul Pattaya

 

The trials, tribulations and even humour experienced by the British embassy's honorary consul in the tourist hotspot of Pattaya, Thailand, for 14 action-packed years.

 

Barry Kenyon, a Liverpudlian by birth, has lived in Thailand for 20 years. For much of the time he was the British embassy's Pattaya officer and acquired a rich store of fun stories and tragedies which make up his book Honorary Consul Pattaya. He has reviewed many books on Amazon, especially relating to maritime history and the second world war, but this is his first bash at writing for Kindle.