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Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it's a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K's filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay's brother, Muslim terror bombers, beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists, who've seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstasy pill. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild 'sex nights' organised by corrupt guards for the prisoners who have cash to pay, the jail's ecstasy factory, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes and the corruption that means anything is for sale - including a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a luxury cell upgrade with a Bose sound system. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page.
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Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise: sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it's a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K's filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay's brother, Muslim terror bombers, beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists, who've seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstasy pill. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild 'sex nights' organised by corrupt guards for the prisoners who have cash to pay, the jail's ecstasy factory, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes and the corruption that means anything is for sale - including a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a luxury cell upgrade with a Bose sound system. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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only word i could think of to describe this book..........very well written, you can picture the scenes which i always think is a good thing in a book........it is hard to believe places like this exsist and would be funny if it wasn't so sad.....buy it.
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One of the best and most shocking books I have ever read! Anyone that goes to Indonesia MUST read this book as it paints a true picture of corruption and pain that one should never have to endure!
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Hotel K is just ok to read. There are better books within the genre.
The book recounts stories from the lives of various western prisoners who have been incarcerated in Kerobokan Prison, Bali.
All the usual prison tales of illicit sex and drugs are in here. You'll also be shocked at the level of collusion between guards and cons, the corruption at every level in the Indonesian legal system, and the various injustices visited upon those who aren't wealthy enough to buy their freedom or a shorter sentence. The book also contains the single most disturbing sentence I've ever read in any book ever. I won't spoil it for you though.
Hotel K mentions a variety of high profile prisoners such as the Bali 9, the Bali Bombers and Gordon Ramsay's brother Ronnie.
I found the book to be poorly structured, and riddled with spelling mistakes. At one point I'm sure they refer to Gordon Ramsey, the famous chef. So famous they can't spell his name properly.
Hotel K's chapters are structured around the different aspects of prison life: drug abuse, escapes, riots etc. I feel that it would have been better to tell each prioner's individual story from start to finish, giving a rounded and coherent account of their experience. Instead, the author jumps around within each chapter, telling snippets of each prisoner's experience, relevant to that particular chapter. The result is very disjointed and repetitive; often difficult to follow.
The book is also padded out with news articles which serve no purpose- they tell you what you've already been told. It is almost as if the author felt that they needed to prove that what she had written was true. I suppose thats to be applauded, but I would have preferred an asterisk beside each piece of text to indicate a link to an apendix at the back of the book. I felt that the articles just got in the way of the story.
Overall, read the book to find out what its like to be in prison in Bali. I feel that Hotel K does get the point across but it could have been better executed.
For a much, much better story about foreign prison read Marching Powder by Rusty Young. Thats how its done.
The book recounts stories from the lives of various western prisoners who have been incarcerated in Kerobokan Prison, Bali.
All the usual prison tales of illicit sex and drugs are in here. You'll also be shocked at the level of collusion between guards and cons, the corruption at every level in the Indonesian legal system, and the various injustices visited upon those who aren't wealthy enough to buy their freedom or a shorter sentence. The book also contains the single most disturbing sentence I've ever read in any book ever. I won't spoil it for you though.
Hotel K mentions a variety of high profile prisoners such as the Bali 9, the Bali Bombers and Gordon Ramsay's brother Ronnie.
I found the book to be poorly structured, and riddled with spelling mistakes. At one point I'm sure they refer to Gordon Ramsey, the famous chef. So famous they can't spell his name properly.
Hotel K's chapters are structured around the different aspects of prison life: drug abuse, escapes, riots etc. I feel that it would have been better to tell each prioner's individual story from start to finish, giving a rounded and coherent account of their experience. Instead, the author jumps around within each chapter, telling snippets of each prisoner's experience, relevant to that particular chapter. The result is very disjointed and repetitive; often difficult to follow.
The book is also padded out with news articles which serve no purpose- they tell you what you've already been told. It is almost as if the author felt that they needed to prove that what she had written was true. I suppose thats to be applauded, but I would have preferred an asterisk beside each piece of text to indicate a link to an apendix at the back of the book. I felt that the articles just got in the way of the story.
Overall, read the book to find out what its like to be in prison in Bali. I feel that Hotel K does get the point across but it could have been better executed.
For a much, much better story about foreign prison read Marching Powder by Rusty Young. Thats how its done.
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Not a bad read
This book is not a bad read although personally I did find it difficult to follow. There are so many characters which isnt a problem except when their stories are sort of spread... Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. J. Beaumont
There are way better books in the Genre
I had great expectations for this book as i enjoy this genre but i found it read more like a series of articles rather than an actual "story". Read more
Published 1 month ago by Joyfalula
Hard hitting, well written but a sad and possibly hope ending book for...
Who is exploiting who in this book? Drug trafficking? why on earth would you traffic knowing what they did about the consequences? Bangkok Hilton has been known about for years. Read more
Published 4 months ago by addo2
Excellent
Really enjoyed this book and could hardly put it down. Though the legal system over there is so mucked up...
Published 5 months ago by Jennifer Deakin
great read but not greatly writen
this book contains shocking accounts of what went on inside the prison.the way the book is writtem seems jumbled and i kept getting lost.not as good as i thought it was going to be
Published 8 months ago by JazzCat
Hotel K
Almost finished reading this book, what an excellent read, it is quite scarie to think that someone could do this to anyone and it makes you feel like you dont want to fly any... Read more
Published 9 months ago by KAREN
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