Originally Posted by
Thai Pom
It was a great book, one of the first I read when I arrived in LOS. In fact I think it was the only one of that type then..
Agreed. It was the original and genuine article written at a time when hardly anyone had ever heard of Thailand ( Siam maybe ). This book was interesting because it wasn't trying to cash in on any ' scene ' as all the books you see now are. It predates the Vietnam era and gives an interesting insight to life on the street for the adverage white man of that period. It was also novel in as much as it was well written unlike the garbage you see now.Its understandable how many people would be put off reading it as the subject has now been flogged to death by a lot of very low ability novelists who seem to rely on a sexy jacket cover to suck in the Thai newbie who thinks he will learn something by reading them.