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

[WonderousWand]

snafu?

American military acronym from WWII.

Google it.

Don't need to.

Anyone who reads books knows what it means.

Probably Herman Wouk has used it, maybe Joseph Heller, but I have seen it in books, many times.

[Ricardo]

I myself am tolerably well-built, often read a book while passing time in a bar, and have long been a patron of Irish George's excellent establishments.

But was recently described by someone as an 'intellectual', and op another occasion as speaking with an "educated accent", oo-err missus !

What would be my ideal drinking-establishment in the Tha Pae Gate area be, on those rare occasions, when I can get into town ?

And why aren't there combined bar-and-bookshop joints for people like me ... is this a gap in the market ?

[WonderousWand]

I myself am tolerably well-built, often read a book while passing time in a bar, and have long been a patron of Irish George's excellent establishments.

But was recently described by someone as an 'intellectual', and op another occasion as speaking with an "educated accent", oo-err missus !

What would be my ideal drinking-establishment in the Tha Pae Gate area be, on those rare occasions, when I can get into town ?

And why aren't there combined bar-and-bookshop joints for people like me ... is this a gap in the market ?

I think most TV readers are already reading in bars.

Just BYOB

[MiKT]

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 ?

If you went to the top of a very tall building you might be able to find the lost bookshop, then you would not have to jump.

But don't call me call the Samaritans if you change your mind.

See, Jai De!

[MiKT]

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. Screenshot_2016-06-18-10-31-26.png

So, unfortunately, lost no more to readers here.

Damn, now I will have to flog the bloody pith helmet. Anybody know any lost Vietnamese?

PS Have you got the GPS co-ordinates?

Edited June 18, 2016 by MiKT

[WonderousWand]

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

Situation

Normal

All

FUN

There are basically two types of people, those who take a perverse view of the word fun, and those who actually enjoy life and think it is fun.

The first group are usually over 60.

It is only the kids who take the word FUN at face value.

It is only when I am hanging out with kids under 22 that I recall what fun might have been.

However, if I think back real thoughtfully, I realize that I never had any fun.

I always took fun as a term of great irony.

Probably, I would have been happier in bars, most of my life.

But then I came to Thailand.

And now, for the very first time, I know the honest more innocent and less jaded meaning of what it truly is to have fun in life, sort of like what it must have been like for the Hawaiians before the missionaries and sugar plantations and pineapple growers colonized those beautiful islands.

War is hell, and it was out of the hell of WW2 that the term SNAFU arose.

These days, as a result of that war being hard fought and won, we can now have the freedom to enjoy life.

[FolkGuitar]

Did you run out of empty journal pages? I'll let you in on a little known fact.... Henry David Thoreau (the fellow who wrote 'Walden' and one or two other works.) wrote a 17-volume journal... roughly seven thousand pages... and had them self-published. It's said that he printed 100 copies for sale.

When he died years later, there were 98 copies still available.

Edited June 18, 2016 by FolkGuitar

[stament]

Fantastic! Now where can I get my hands on a set? ?

Edited June 18, 2016 by stament

[WonderousWand]

Did you run out of empty journal pages? I'll let you in on a little known fact.... Henry David Thoreau (the fellow who wrote 'Walden' and one or two other works.) wrote a 17-volume journal... roughly seven thousand pages... and had them self-published. It's said that he printed 100 copies for sale.

When he died years later, there were 98 copies still available.

Just another good example of separating the wheat from the chaff.

Did you think that all of JS BACH's compositions were masterpieces?

But if you really want to read some published chaff, you can go to the Gutenberg Project and read some of the drivel from a century ago that is available for free.

Much of that is just artifacts from the past with no redeeming liturgical value.

Don't know how to convert literature to the form I need, but liturgical is a whole different word.

I don't think anyone reads it. It is just there because it costs nothing to store it on Gutenberg.

Edited June 18, 2016 by WonderousWand

[WonderousWand]

Fantastic! Now where can I get my hands on a set? ?

Why not walk over to The Lost Bookshop?

If they do not have it, they can order it.

As I said, The Lost Bookshop truly is fantastic.

[FolkGuitar]

Did you run out of empty journal pages? I'll let you in on a little known fact.... Henry David Thoreau (the fellow who wrote 'Walden' and one or two other works.) wrote a 17-volume journal... roughly seven thousand pages... and had them self-published. It's said that he printed 100 copies for sale.

When he died years later, there were 98 copies still available.

Just another good example of separating the wheat from the chaff.

Did you think that all of JS BACH's compositions were masterpieces?

But if you really want to read some published chaff, you can go to the Gutenberg Project and read some of the drivel from a century ago that is available for free.

Much of that is just artifacts from the past with no redeeming liturgical value.

Don't know how to convert literature to the form I need, but liturgical is a whole different word.

I don't think anyone reads it. It is just there because it costs nothing to store it on Gutenberg.

Whoosh!

[VillageIdiot]

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.

Yes, amusing.

More entertainment from ThaiVisa - the fruitful source that keeps on giving.

He is quickly becoming a ​regular ​on the forum, and in a few months his post count will be dangerously high.

A good piece of advice would be for him to change his style. The intellectual manqué hiding behind the mask of a naif is territory that has already been staked out by ​Thighlander ​aka ​Bangmai ​aka ​KhonKaenKowboy, with the occasional assist from ​evenstevens.

​​All in fun, of course, but it does express the emotional toll these nomads bear by their isolation here in Chiang Mai.

[opalred]

he has pulled the chains of the bar and hooker jerkers of cm

you can keep looking but you all know porn books are banned in los

[WonderousWand]

Of course, I will not post anything unless I have something valid to say, or need to ask a question.

In this case, I was just thankful to have found the Lost Bookshop.

Chiang Mai has a lot to offer.

Today, I noticed that the small Park near the Zoo gate Number 2 has water taps which are left unlocked.

I was very surprised because usually the water taps are locked in other countries.

So I think this is a great city, with a culture I can appreciate.

It is sometimes these little touches that add so much to happiness of residents, and the livability of a city.

I still find the recollection of today's seeing the unlocked taps quite remarkable.

I would have started a post about it, because I think it important, but no need since I have already mentioned this here.

[MiKT]

Of course, I will not post anything unless I have something valid to say, or need to ask a question.

In this case, I was just thankful to have found the Lost Bookshop.

Chiang Mai has a lot to offer.

Today, I noticed that the small Park near the Zoo gate Number 2 has water taps which are left unlocked.

I was very surprised because usually the water taps are locked in other countries.

So I think this is a great city, with a culture I can appreciate.

It is sometimes these little touches that add so much to happiness of residents, and the livability of a city.

I still find the recollection of today's seeing the unlocked taps quite remarkable.

I would have started a post about it, because I think it important, but no need since I have already mentioned this here.

Unlocked water taps, unlocked water taps, unlocked bloody water taps! For Lawks a Mercy sake, your anti-bar, "glory be to the bookshop" pontification is bad enough. If you are going to spout about unlocked water taps, what next will drive you to such heights of ecstasy? You found a stretch of flat pavement, or maybe a cast-iron drain cover shinning like a National Guitar? Ahaaaaaaaaaaaag.

For goodness sake, next time you zoom round in dizzying circles "open your eyes" nobody locks water taps in LOS. It hardly compares with the Coliseum as the sign of a great city.

Blimey, you can't have much Fun. GO to a Bar and unlock the wild side of your life, at least you could pretend you are Hemingway. He did not have much good to say about water at all, and would have made very short work of any locked taps getting in his way, especially if they locked him away from his favorite refreshment.

[WonderousWand]

Of course, I will not post anything unless I have something valid to say, or need to ask a question.

In this case, I was just thankful to have found the Lost Bookshop.

Chiang Mai has a lot to offer.

Today, I noticed that the small Park near the Zoo gate Number 2 has water taps which are left unlocked.

I was very surprised because usually the water taps are locked in other countries.

So I think this is a great city, with a culture I can appreciate.

It is sometimes these little touches that add so much to happiness of residents, and the livability of a city.

I still find the recollection of today's seeing the unlocked taps quite remarkable.

I would have started a post about it, because I think it important, but no need since I have already mentioned this here.

Unlocked water taps, unlocked water taps, unlocked bloody water taps! For Lawks a Mercy sake, your anti-bar, "glory be to the bookshop" pontification is bad enough. If you are going to spout about unlocked water taps, what next will drive you to such heights of ecstasy? You found a stretch of flat pavement, or maybe a cast-iron drain cover shinning like a National Guitar? Ahaaaaaaaaaaaag.

For goodness sake, next time you zoom round in dizzying circles "open your eyes" nobody locks water taps in LOS. It hardly compares with the Coliseum as the sign of a great city.

Blimey, you can't have much Fun. GO to a Bar and unlock the wild side of your life, at least you could pretend you are Hemingway. He did not have much good to say about water at all, and would have made very short work of any locked taps getting in his way, especially if they locked him away from his favorite refreshment.

Keep your eyes open, be observant, and take notes if you aspire to become an author.

[MiKT]

Of course, I will not post anything unless I have something valid to say, or need to ask a question.

In this case, I was just thankful to have found the Lost Bookshop.

Chiang Mai has a lot to offer.

Today, I noticed that the small Park near the Zoo gate Number 2 has water taps which are left unlocked.

I was very surprised because usually the water taps are locked in other countries.

So I think this is a great city, with a culture I can appreciate.

It is sometimes these little touches that add so much to happiness of residents, and the livability of a city.

I still find the recollection of today's seeing the unlocked taps quite remarkable.

I would have started a post about it, because I think it important, but no need since I have already mentioned this here.

Unlocked water taps, unlocked water taps, unlocked bloody water taps! For Lawks a Mercy sake, your anti-bar, "glory be to the bookshop" pontification is bad enough. If you are going to spout about unlocked water taps, what next will drive you to such heights of ecstasy? You found a stretch of flat pavement, or maybe a cast-iron drain cover shinning like a National Guitar? Ahaaaaaaaaaaaag.

For goodness sake, next time you zoom round in dizzying circles "open your eyes" nobody locks water taps in LOS. It hardly compares with the Coliseum as the sign of a great city.

Blimey, you can't have much Fun. GO to a Bar and unlock the wild side of your life, at least you could pretend you are Hemingway. He did not have much good to say about water at all, and would have made very short work of any locked taps getting in his way, especially if they locked him away from his favorite refreshment.

Keep your eyes open, be observant, and take notes if you aspire to become an author.

Thank goodness I am not so afflicted. I am only an anti-iconoclast, I was a teenage Idol.

[NickJ]

I like to read in bars and have the girls turn the pages.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

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

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

In the middle, left side of the road.

Edited June 19, 2016 by WinnieTheKhwai

[FolkGuitar]

I hope you didn't pay a lot for that camera...

[WinnieTheKhwai]

I didn't.

And in my defence, it's zoomed in from here.

[FolkGuitar]

In that case... Nice camera!

[WonderousWand]

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

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

In the middle, left side of the road.

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No...

I think that is Kad Soon Kao.

[daoyai]

^^^ I think you are mistaking The Raming Lodge for Kad Suan Keaw

[1FinickyOne]

I was only transiting, and I could not help noticing that there seems to be two types of people in that area... Fat ones who do not smile and walk slow, and then the fit skinny guys who walk fast and smile a lot, and seem much happier.

Seems like an unusual story to take a moment out of to bash fat people. What does that have to do with Thai grammar and book sellers. You make it sound as you have never seen an overweight person. Open your eyes, it is an epidemic out there. Even Thai are much heavier than ever before.

[Chiengmaijoe]

I was only transiting, and I could not help noticing that there seems to be two types of people in that area... Fat ones who do not smile and walk slow, and then the fit skinny guys who walk fast and smile a lot, and seem much happier.

Seems like an unusual story to take a moment out of to bash fat people. What does that have to do with Thai grammar and book sellers. You make it sound as you have never seen an overweight person. Open your eyes, it is an epidemic out there. Even Thai are much heavier than ever before.

He wasn't bashing fat people, he was bashing fat people who don't smile and walk slow. There is a difference. My guess is that he likes fat people who smile and walk fast, if they can.

Edited June 19, 2016 by Chiengmaijoe

[1FinickyOne]

I was only transiting, and I could not help noticing that there seems to be two types of people in that area... Fat ones who do not smile and walk slow, and then the fit skinny guys who walk fast and smile a lot, and seem much happier.

Seems like an unusual story to take a moment out of to bash fat people. What does that have to do with Thai grammar and book sellers. You make it sound as you have never seen an overweight person. Open your eyes, it is an epidemic out there. Even Thai are much heavier than ever before.

He wasn't bashing fat people, he was bashing fat people who don't smile and walk slow. There is a difference. My guess is that he likes fat people who smile and walk fast, if they can.

Ahh, I stand corrected... it just seemed so out of place when praising a bookstore and a book... surely he has an overall image of "fat and jolly" and he might have disappointed seeing some of them laboring in the heat, so out of character.

[WonderousWand]

I was only transiting, and I could not help noticing that there seems to be two types of people in that area... Fat ones who do not smile and walk slow, and then the fit skinny guys who walk fast and smile a lot, and seem much happier.

Seems like an unusual story to take a moment out of to bash fat people. What does that have to do with Thai grammar and book sellers. You make it sound as you have never seen an overweight person. Open your eyes, it is an epidemic out there. Even Thai are much heavier than ever before.

He wasn't bashing fat people, he was bashing fat people who don't smile and walk slow. There is a difference. My guess is that he likes fat people who smile and walk fast, if they can.

Absolutely correct!!!

I like people of all sizes who smile

The glum skinny ones are worse than scrooges.

I always prefer those who smile because they illicit smiles from me.

Fortunately, the skinny Farang guys I saw were smiling.

The Thai smilers were nothing remarkable, because fat or thin, they always smile.

The only Farang guys with huge beer bellies I saw happened to be sitting in open air bars, and I happened to think it ironic that they were not smiling while having fun in their watering holes.

Which then got me wondering why they did not head over to the Lost Bookshop to be with the smilers I saw there. If one needs a smile, it is only logical to go to the Bookshop.

Edited June 19, 2016 by WonderousWand

[1FinickyOne]

Glad we cleared that up, but still a bit out of place in a post on bookstores... so, maybe it is 3 overweight alcoholics that dampened your afternoon. They probably needed a beer more than a smile... at a bookshop.

[WonderousWand]

Glad we cleared that up, but still a bit out of place in a post on bookstores... so, maybe it is 3 overweight alcoholics that dampened your afternoon. They probably needed a beer more than a smile... at a bookshop.

As I clearly stated above, I think that it is a spinal problem.

The off-center weight they carry ahead of them causes serious unbalanced pressure and compression to the spine and discs.

This is known to lead to debilitating pain, in many cases, and who enjoys smiling while they are in agony?

Edited June 19, 2016 by WonderousWand