Today, Transiting the Town's Bar Section, I Found: The Last Bookshop

[WonderousWand]

"Fat ones who do not smile and walk slow".

That's because they are too full of smoke and beer, and very unfit.

They don't smile because their wallets are getting empty

and it will cost them a fortune to get laid.

Exactly!

Right on all counts.

I saw a guy at one bar in the morning, which was open to the street, and he had a beer belly the size of a medicine ball.

Looked like Swartenegger in that film where he gives birth to triplets.

Incredible.

HUGE beer bellies.

I have not seen the likes of it in my life, until this week.

I could not believe they could walk and remain upright, but since they can it must put an unhealthy strain on their poor spines.

Maybe it was a book placed inside his t-shirt.

Must be one hell of a size of a book. Or do you mean books?

It looked to me like the OED, unabridged.

Edited June 17, 2016 by WonderousWand

[WonderousWand]

dup.

Sorry

Edited June 17, 2016 by WonderousWand

[WonderousWand]

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Love Story.

The reason I dont go into suribong.

But the Lost Bookshop is better!

[JHolmesJr]

I, for one, firmly eschew the act of keeping the wondrous wand zipped up.

I wave it around like Harry Potter and cast spells…no female in thailand is safe from the Wand.

[Trujillo]

I, also, enjoy Teats.

[alofthailand]

I think the OP would benefit from reading many more books! And as for the advice about avoiding the local bars! Tread lightly - you may be stepping on the owner's dreams.

[alofthailand]

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Love Story.

The reason I dont go into suribong.

But the Lost Bookshop is better!

On the contrary -Love means you are constantly having to say sorry!

[MiKT]

Not surprising that WonderousWand has so few friends if you keep vandalising books and ripping of the authors by photocopying and distributing illegally on the net!

No, not on the net.. I only distribute to my 2 friends.

But mostly I scan for myself so that I can use OCR to do word counts and text manipulation.

I only download from P2P, never upload.

Probably THAT is why I have few friends.

OH, SO THAT's OK THEN!

Na, sorry I have only been pulling your chain because of your complaining about bars in Thailand. We all do a bit of photocopying now and then. But I don't think you need to mutilate a book to do it.

Seriously, there are many countries where you can spend your time reading books (like Saudi, Libya, North Korea, etc.) and not many where you can find friendly girls who welcome anybody no matter what their literary aspirations.

Even those with fat bellies.

Dont knock it ......... or move on to the Sally Army dead poets appreciation site. TV is clearly not piously highbrow enough for you.

[WonderousWand]

Not surprising that WonderousWand has so few friends if you keep vandalising books and ripping of the authors by photocopying and distributing illegally on the net!

No, not on the net.. I only distribute to my 2 friends.

But mostly I scan for myself so that I can use OCR to do word counts and text manipulation.

I only download from P2P, never upload.

Probably THAT is why I have few friends.

OH, SO THAT's OK THEN!

Na, sorry I have only been pulling your chain because of your complaining about bars in Thailand. We all do a bit of photocopying now and then. But I don't think you need to mutilate a book to do it.

Seriously, there are many countries where you can spend your time reading books (like Saudi, Libya, North Korea, etc.) and not many where you can find friendly girls who welcome anybody no matter what their literary aspirations.

Even those with fat bellies.

Dont knock it ......... or move on to the Sally Army dead poets appreciation site. TV is clearly not piously highbrow enough for you.

No pain, no gain.

Sometimes, sacrifices must be made.

In this case, the only way to get a good scan is to separate the pages from the binding, using a knife, and then scan them at 600 Dpi on a high resolution scanner.

Once cut up with a knife, Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together.

However, the loose pages can still be used for many purposes.

Regarding prostitution, I think everything has already been said or written about it over the last 10,000 years, including the aspect of exploitation, so I will not say more.

However,

Have your read this short story titled:

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Edited June 17, 2016 by WonderousWand

[MiKT]

Not surprising that WonderousWand has so few friends if you keep vandalising books and ripping of the authors by photocopying and distributing illegally on the net!

No, not on the net.. I only distribute to my 2 friends.

But mostly I scan for myself so that I can use OCR to do word counts and text manipulation.

I only download from P2P, never upload.

Probably THAT is why I have few friends.

OH, SO THAT's OK THEN!

Na, sorry I have only been pulling your chain because of your complaining about bars in Thailand. We all do a bit of photocopying now and then. But I don't think you need to mutilate a book to do it.

Seriously, there are many countries where you can spend your time reading books (like Saudi, Libya, North Korea, etc.) and not many where you can find friendly girls who welcome anybody no matter what their literary aspirations.

Even those with fat bellies.

Dont knock it ......... or move on to the Sally Army dead poets appreciation site. TV is clearly not piously highbrow enough for you.

No pain, no gain.

Sometimes, sacrifices must be made.

In this case, the only way to get a good scan is to separate the pages from the binding, using a knife, and then scan them at 600 Dpi on a high resolution scanner.

Once cut up with a knife, Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together.

However, the loose pages can still be used for many purposes.

Regarding prostitution, I think everything has already been said or written about it over the last 10,000 years, including the aspect of exploitation, so I will not say more.

However,

Have your read this short story titled:

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Vandalism is not necessary if you use a good scanner that can cope with a book, there are many available. If you are only doing this for OCR recognition you can easily put right the odd miss-scanned word.

On the subject of exploitation in Thailand it probably is best that you say no more; wondering in circles probably does not qualify as relevant experience; and No.

Edited June 17, 2016 by MiKT

[alofthailand]

Not surprising that WonderousWand has so few friends if you keep vandalising books and ripping of the authors by photocopying and distributing illegally on the net!

No, not on the net.. I only distribute to my 2 friends.

But mostly I scan for myself so that I can use OCR to do word counts and text manipulation.

I only download from P2P, never upload.

Probably THAT is why I have few friends.

OH, SO THAT's OK THEN!

Na, sorry I have only been pulling your chain because of your complaining about bars in Thailand. We all do a bit of photocopying now and then. But I don't think you need to mutilate a book to do it.

Seriously, there are many countries where you can spend your time reading books (like Saudi, Libya, North Korea, etc.) and not many where you can find friendly girls who welcome anybody no matter what their literary aspirations.

Even those with fat bellies.

Dont knock it ......... or move on to the Sally Army dead poets appreciation site. TV is clearly not piously highbrow enough for you.

No pain, no gain.

Sometimes, sacrifices must be made.

In this case, the only way to get a good scan is to separate the pages from the binding, using a knife, and then scan them at 600 Dpi on a high resolution scanner.

Once cut up with a knife, Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together.

However, the loose pages can still be used for many purposes.

Regarding prostitution, I think everything has already been said or written about it over the last 10,000 years, including the aspect of exploitation, so I will not say more.

However,

Have your read this short story titled:

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Ah now we get to the heart of the problem-prostitution as well as fat men, bars, drinking, people enjoying themselves. This thread was never about bookshops really.

[WonderousWand]

Not surprising that WonderousWand has so few friends if you keep vandalising books and ripping of the authors by photocopying and distributing illegally on the net!

No, not on the net.. I only distribute to my 2 friends.

But mostly I scan for myself so that I can use OCR to do word counts and text manipulation.

I only download from P2P, never upload.

Probably THAT is why I have few friends.

OH, SO THAT's OK THEN!

Na, sorry I have only been pulling your chain because of your complaining about bars in Thailand. We all do a bit of photocopying now and then. But I don't think you need to mutilate a book to do it.

Seriously, there are many countries where you can spend your time reading books (like Saudi, Libya, North Korea, etc.) and not many where you can find friendly girls who welcome anybody no matter what their literary aspirations.

Even those with fat bellies.

Dont knock it ......... or move on to the Sally Army dead poets appreciation site. TV is clearly not piously highbrow enough for you.

No pain, no gain.

Sometimes, sacrifices must be made.

In this case, the only way to get a good scan is to separate the pages from the binding, using a knife, and then scan them at 600 Dpi on a high resolution scanner.

Once cut up with a knife, Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together.

However, the loose pages can still be used for many purposes.

Regarding prostitution, I think everything has already been said or written about it over the last 10,000 years, including the aspect of exploitation, so I will not say more.

However,

Have your read this short story titled:

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Ah now we get to the heart of the problem-prostitution as well as fat men, bars, drinking, people enjoying themselves. This thread was never about bookshops really.

My post was and is about what I saw on my way to finding a great bookshop, and about the bookshop, and about the book I bought.

In fact, I was struck by the choice of book life or bar life.

The guys inside the bookshop looked happy. The guys drinking in the morning looked a bit dazed and unsmiling.

There is nothing wrong with bar life. It is just a choice.

Maybe others would prefer bike racing or swimming, but I did not pass by very many swimming pools.... I only saw a bunch of watering holes.

No moral judgements, as I already stated above.

Bars are fun, especially when there is good music.

[JHolmesJr]

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

You might also like Memories of my Melancholy Whores.

Same author.

[WonderousWand]

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

You might also like Memories of my Melancholy Whores.

Same author.

The only reason I suggested the short story that I did was because another poster here mentioned Gabriel Marquez, who wrote the story, and also received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

[JHolmesJr]

He also shagged a lot of hookers in real life. Im sure he died a contented man.

[MiKT]

Such a short memory WonderousWand, you said and I quote

"My suggestion is that if you do go to that part of town, then please do not stop at the bars, etc., but rather walk past them, as did I, and spend your time at The Last Bookshop".

If this is not a moral judgment and pompously pious crap, my name is Yeats.

The guys in the bars were probably dazed and unsmiling because they saw you glaring at them as you sashed past again and again on your interminable circles with a look of horror on your face and your hands clasped in supplication for a higher power to spare you from the torrid temptations within that were so obviously preying on your mind.

PS

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother sounds like one of Father Teds real life sad tales of Klong Toey.

Edited June 17, 2016 by MiKT

[WonderousWand]

He also shagged a lot of hookers in real life. Im sure he died a contented man.

Be that as it may, at least he could write.

[JHolmesJr]

He also shagged a lot of hookers in real life. Im sure he died a contented man.

Be that as it may, at least he could write.

That is true but i give a lot of credit to his translators over the years....edith grossman and gregory rabassa.

[Johpa]

he may be a troll, but in the larger scheme of things, there is something almost kafkaesque or wg sebaldesque in his writing. a fictional travelogue where a nameless drifter saunters around chiang mai's red light district, solliiquizing about the seediness of life, he stumbles across a used bookstrore where he browses long out of print books as the proprietor quotes yeats. i want to hear more.

Well I would rather not hear any more of the dribble from one who sees only fat people looking sullen while walking slow and thin people, I assume he perceives himself in this group, to be smiling and walking briskly. He has divided the world into people just like himself being superior to those who are not as he imagines himself. I think such an attitude may be common amongst those who many would be either quoting Yeats or impressed by others quoting Yeats. One is also led to ask whether the OP is indeed in love with his own self-perceived wondrous wand with his back-handed attempt to deny, or at least denigrate, the bar girls on Loi Khroh who might be willing to wave that wand for him.

[anto]

I commend the OPs talent in starting up a thread ,and keeping it going ,even if he has to start talking to himself occasionally ;-)

[WonderousWand]

Still, I was favorably impressed with the bookshop. And, I was happy to see the sights on the way there. Anyone interested in books could easily spend a couple enjoyable hours within.

Be they dribbling, or talking drivel.

Edited June 17, 2016 by WonderousWand

[Chiengmaijoe]

he may be a troll, but in the larger scheme of things, there is something almost kafkaesque or wg sebaldesque in his writing. a fictional travelogue where a nameless drifter saunters around chiang mai's red light district, solliiquizing about the seediness of life, he stumbles across a used bookstrore where he browses long out of print books as the proprietor quotes yeats. i want to hear more.

Well I would rather not hear any more of the dribble from one who sees only fat people looking sullen while walking slow and thin people, I assume he perceives himself in this group, to be smiling and walking briskly. He has divided the world into people just like himself being superior to those who are not as he imagines himself. I think such an attitude may be common amongst those who many would be either quoting Yeats or impressed by others quoting Yeats. One is also led to ask whether the OP is indeed in love with his own self-perceived wondrous wand with his back-handed attempt to deny, or at least denigrate, the bar girls on Loi Khroh who might be willing to wave that wand for him.

You're taking all these posts at face value? I find that hard to believe. He certainly doesn't take himself seriously, so why do you? If you don't want to hear anymore it isn't that difficult to ignore is it? I don't read 80% or more of the topics here whenever I pop in, mainly because they don't interest me, and some posters I ignore for much the same reason. Personally, I find his posts amusing.

[Here we are again]

You are a troll and if you have been in CM for a year you would know there are two lost bookstores the other is behind the star bucks next door to the going out of business book store know as geckos. Please keep you opinions about visiting bars to yourself as it really isn.t appreciated. I guess you saw the only two Thais who live in that area the fat one and the skinney one.

Having read this inane drivel OP must be a YANK

[stament]

this thread has deteriorated into I honestly don't know what. Time to put an end to the misery, mods pls close this before I am forced to jump off thevtop of a very tall building!

I think this thread has run its course,and I am still no wiser of where the bookshops are exactly ?

[anto]

Just ignore this thread if it bothers you .How easy is that .

[FolkGuitar]

The original poster is having fun posting. The usual members are having fun tearing him down. This is ThaiVisa SNAFU.

[stament]

snafu?

[stament]

Just ignore this thread if it bothers you .How easy is that .

just hoping exact store locations will be revealed off discussed bookstores ?

[WonderousWand]

Just ignore this thread if it bothers you .How easy is that .

just hoping exact store locations will be revealed off discussed bookstores ?

Of course, you are correct!

I should have posted the location at the top, initially, to avoid confusion.

So, unfortunately, lost no more to readers here.

Edited June 18, 2016 by WonderousWand

[JingerBen]

snafu?

American military acronym from WWII.

Google it.