- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Press (1 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0593051629
- ISBN-13: 978-0593051627
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 387,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Bangkok Tattoo (Sonchai Jitpleecheep 2) (Paperback)
First, I'm no great crime novel/thriller reader. However, for me the plot frankly was a minor attraction, I very much enjoyed this book for all sorts of other reasons.
The characters are interesting, unique in my experience. The picture of Thai life & culture, & of Buddhist belief, is (particularly to someone previously largely ignorant of these things) fascinating. Does the book deal in stereotypes? No, I don't think so. Some of the characters appear stereotypical when you first meet them, yes, particularly the "tormented US spy", but, they don't conform for long, they have their own subtleties. Most are complicated, if not downright strange. As to its authenticity, it certainly appeared very true to life to me. I've never visited Thailand, & others have offered opinions on how close to reality it is. For my part I'll say that nowhere did anything strike me as unbelievable, or false, quite the contrary. This is my first & probably only review by the way, so I'll finish by saying it is shocking in places, amusing in others, informative, & overall quite wonderful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bangkok Tattoo,
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This review is from: Bangkok Tattoo (Hardcover)
Complicated, as I am sure it was meant to be, but it seems that the author lost the plot along the line and the ending was very rushed. Obviously research has been done and I am sure that there is plenty of villainy between Police and Army. However, for a book like this, which requires attention to detail, it was disarming to hear of '747's flying into the Twin Towers relatively early in the book; A strange slip, which gave a bit of uneasiness about how well the rest was thought through.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
literary but flawed,
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This review is from: Bangkok Tattoo (Hardcover)
Beautfully written, but the story is unbelievable, and as a frequent visitor to Thailand I can see that Burdett has not done his research. Bangkok Eight was better.
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