... much better than the usual boring shit from Herge
Tintin In Thailand pdf : Books > Ebooks - Mininova (torrent)
... much better than the usual boring shit from Herge
Tintin In Thailand pdf : Books > Ebooks - Mininova (torrent)
8 leechers but no seeders.
Can you send it to me via email?
I'm seeding till tomorrow morning.
I bought a copy in a bar in Nana when it came out (I think it was in 2000?). I've probably still got it somewhere.
Amusing, but nothing special. I was surprised that someone had gone to the effort to do it though.
Got it. Will seed.
The secret of Tintin on his 80th birthday
Dipankar De Sarkar, Indo-Asian News Service
London, January 10, 2009
Fans around the world celebrate Tintin's 80th birthday on Saturday just as a British politician-turned-columnist claims he knows things about the Belgian comic-book hero that the rest of us don't.
"A callow, androgynous blonde-quiffed youth in funny trousers and a scarf moving into the country mansion of his best friend, a middle-aged sailor? A sweet-faced lad devoted to a fluffy white toy terrier, whose other closest pals are an inseparable couple of detectives in bowler hats, and whose only serious female friend is an opera diva...
"... And you're telling me Tintin isn't gay?" said Matthew Parris, ex-Tory MP.
Parris, himself gay, is a well-known newspaper columnist who notoriously 'outed' Business Minister Lord Peter Mandelson in the middle of a television interview in 1998.
Now, Parris insists, the reporter whose adventures have sold more than 200 million copies and been translated into 50 languages, is gay and that fans are in a state of "denial".
In an article published in The Times on Wednesday, Parris said he comes to the conclusion from an examination of Tintin's life.
Tintin, who was born Jan 10, 1929, on the pages of a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, has an unknown background and origin, says Parris, adding: "This is common among young gay men, some of whom find it hard to believe that they really are their parents' child".Parris suspects Tintin may well have been a spy - "secret intelligence has always attracted gay men. I myself applied for and was offered a post in MI6."
Tintin's journalism also raises Parris's suspicion: "Tintin's only recorded remark to his editor (on departing for Moscow) is 'I'll send you some postcards and vodka and caviar.' For a cub reporter on his first assignment, a curious remark."
In fact, Parris suspects Tintin may well have been a spy - "secret intelligence has always attracted gay men. I myself applied for and was offered a post in MI6."
He finds Tintin's world full of men. Of the complete list of 350 characters in Tintin books, Parris counts only eight women, and he doesn't find them attractive.
The best known of them, chain-smoking opera singer Bianca Castafiore, is a "diva fag-hag," while Peggy, the wife of a Latin American dictator, is a "curler-wearing virago".
"The butch, bitchy, bullying, cigar-smoking, hard-drinking, flame-haired wife of General Alcazar may well have been lesbian," Parris proclaims.
Snowy the loyal fox terrier is the only "unambiguously heterosexual male mammal in Tintin's entire universe," Parris says.
Fans reacted calmly. "Don't sexualise Tintin," wrote one on the Times website. "Leave him as the asexual hero I have always unconsciously assumed him to be."
Parris is not the first person to speculate on Tintin's sexuality. In 2001, Belgian police seized 600 copies of an unauthorised book titled Tintin in Thailand - which showed Tintin and his friends living it up in Thai gay bars.
However, Belgium-based Studios Herge reacted stoutly, with spokesman Marcel Wilmet declaring: "Tintin is not at all gay - he was very macho in fact. He has many friends who are boys but they are not boyfriends."
hindustantimes.com
Seeing there is nothing sexual in the Tintin books (except the Thai one) his sexuality is a non-issue.
What a dumbass!
By the way, that comic book is widely available on the streets of Bangkok and Pattaya (undoubtedly elsewhere as well), and is not worth whatever they are charging -- horribly drawn, unimaginative content - I'd assume not only the work of an amateur, but a sad amateur as well. It's only popularity comes from having the wording 'in Thailand' in the title.
Waste of time and effort, even as a free download.
Tintin in Thailand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Copies were printed in Thailand to be distributed in Belgium, where Tintin in Thailand was thought to have been in circulation since December 1999. Thousands of copies in both French and English were also distributed in Thailand. The quality of the Thai copies was later found to supersede that of the Belgian copies.
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