- Hardcover: 271 pages
- Publisher: North Point Press (26 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0865477329
- ISBN-13: 978-0865477322
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,041,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Another book on thailand written by a single white middle aged man, oh yes! No wonder I bypassed this when it came out, Then I found it int he local library, and picked it up, and it's a compelling read once I got through the slow start of the first twenty pages. Lawrence osborne can really set a scene and fill it with characters and curious anecdotes about a city. That's what i liked about the book so much - less cliches of hardcore single man Bangkok debauchery, but tales of hidden places, a bit of local mystery, and some interesting characters - some of them foreigners, some of them local. It's really well written, the right balance between adventure and serious history. Something to actually spend money on and to read again. And the poster who commented on the author's photogrpah should perhaps take not that looks aren't everything. In fact, I find the authors photograph quite favourable: some kind of washed-up broke Morrissey, I like it very much. So, tehre.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Osborne's book presents a deft dance between Anglo cultural paralysis and the steamy, messy promise of the East. He manages to avoid romanticizing Bangkok by showing us the ways that the city affirms rather than annuls the loneliness of the western male ghosts who mostly populate his canvas. And the sexual and gustatory promiscuities that prop up the heat-wilted balloon of Bangkok life are ecstatic only in the moment. Yet, for this very reason, the tenor of solitude takes on a strangely Buddhist cast. These characters might be damned, but they're damned in part for how completely they've melted into the here and now. Osborne shows us that the underbelly of Nirvana may not be all that different from the topbelly. With the depth of this meditation, there's a great deal of humor here as well--rich language and observation of the physical fabric of a major city. All of it brings home to the reader the endlessly mysterious exoticisms and simply seedy ins and outs of his or her own fleshly being.
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If you have ever been lost or unsure of your place in life, you may (as a man - usually) find yourself in the far east. If so, you might find youself identifying with the author of this book. Even if you're not a man but you've found yourself lost you still might identify with the author. Running away to a far away place, money short friendships with random people, the meaning of life questionned.
If you've ever found yourself in this position you might enjoy this book ( i did).
Bangkok in all it's glory and sleaze.
If you've ever found yourself in this position you might enjoy this book ( i did).
Bangkok in all it's glory and sleaze.
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A perfect book ?
Quite simply one of the best books i have ever read.The prose,the characters,the intriguing insights the author appears to have about life,Bangkok and the people he meets are all... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Paul O'callaghan
Boring Boring Boring
Read the above two reviews with interest as I have just read this book whilst in Thailand and en route to Bangkok. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2010 by Michael Bromfield
"Bangkok Days" is nothing less than a work of art
It is unarguably the first modern book that I have read that has drawn me away from my Dostoevsky.
I purchased this book a few months ago out of a combination of cold... Read more
I purchased this book a few months ago out of a combination of cold... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2009 by Kelley Fox
great theme, but not that memorable a read
Loved the prospect of reading about washed-up, failed, ageing white men hanging around Bangkok. Can't help feeling Osborne could've done more with it, or maybe used some stronger... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2009 by Ben P
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