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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780867194739
ISBN: 0867194731
Label: Last Gasp
Manufacturer: Last Gasp
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: 2000-12
Publisher: Last Gasp
Sales Rank: 353148
Studio: Last Gasp
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Veteran reporter Richard Ehrlich and Dave Walker unfold a tale of love and lust in Bangkok's notorious red-light district. These interviews and correspondence with prostitutes and their patrons draw an intimate and touching portrait amidst the blaring lights and pounding music of Bangkok.
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Rating:  - interesting book
I found this book to be an informative book. Takes a single slant at the topic as a whole. A person can learn alot of new things in this book.
Rating: - Imformation like this is hard to get
how else is one to figure these subtle things out. dig deep and let the cards fall where they may. I felt the book helped me to sort through patterns. good and bad, I wand to move forward quickly and efficantly. I wanted to be able to sort the cultual from the scam. this book helps you do that. I know better where i stand now. and my relationship with my fiance is stronger for it.
Rating: - Not Great But A Classic
I first visited and fell in love with Thailand when I was 19. It was not till 1994 when I was 30 that I decided to go native. While helping out at my friend's travel agency, I discovered an interesting letter translation service that was offered in almost every other travel agency. When tour guides had no work, they translated "love letters" for Thai women who had foreign boyfriends. All letters told virtually the same story. Mother sick, brother in jail, buffalo died ... these are the bargirls. In the case of students and office workers, course fees, computer went caput, want to set up own business because boss is abusive and exploitative ...
It takes an insider to appreciate the size of this love letter industry. People who say that it's the same everywhere else in the world ain't seen nothing yet. It's quite amazing that authors Dave Walker and Richard Ehrlich dared to make these embarrasing letters public. I nearly tripped over my own toes when I saw this book in the bookstore back then.
Highly controversial but totally honest, this book reproduces the letters that bargirls sent to their foreign boyfriends. It's definitely a project that took more legwork than keyboard hours, but the authors did include interviews with insiders and also a foreward by a Thai sociologist.
The moral of the story? The line between true love and mercenary prostitution is sometimes blurred in the Land of Smiles. Prostitutes don't just charge a fee for service. They create an illusion ... Read More
Rating: - great read
This one a must if your going to Thailand for R and R or I&I. The interviews with the woman are the best, wish they would have had more.
Rating: - Hello My Big Big honey
A very well written book which is an excellent insight into the letters written by foreigners to thia ladies, primarily bar girls.
This book also includes the thai girls point of view in interview form.
Plus a few bar owners experiances.
A must for all travelers to Thailands bangkok streets, particularly Patpong but also relates to Nana and soi Cowboy with some referances to Pattaya.
Maybe if you travel to these areas of Thailand you will see something of your self in this book, you will surely see something of those you know whe travel there.
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