Books
Thai Lottery, author Matt Carrell, is another self-published book (or one without an ISBN number at least). The book sent down for review has one story, Thai Lottery, chosen as…
Friday May 10 - May 16, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 19)
Thanks to a lady called Michelle in Singapore, another Jerry Hopkins book landed on my desk. Thank you Michelle. Entitled Thailand Confidential (ISBN 0-7946-0093-X, Periplus publishing, 2005), this is one…
Friday May 3 - May 9, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 18)
The name Father Joe Maier should be well known in Thailand, and especially in Bangkok where his ministry covers the infamous Klong Toey slums. He has been living there for…
Friday April 26 - May 2, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 17)
A rather different book this week, and one that I found initially very confusing. Watching the Thais, was written by Tom Tuohy (ISBN 978-178-17666-9-9, 2012, published in the UK by…
Friday April 19 - April 25, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 16)
This week’s book was written by Jerry Hopkins, an author with over 30 books to his credit. He wrote Bangkok Babylon (ISBN 978-0-8048-4077-4, Tuttle Publishing) in 2005, but the subject…
Friday April 12 - April 18, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 15)
A first book for author Craig Hurren, but one that seems to have caught the imagination of the reading public, with several insisting I review The Killing Code (ISBN978-148-234-969-6, 2013,…
Friday April 5 - April 11, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 14)
This week’s book is very different from the more usual ones reviewed in this column. Richard Watson, a futurist, has put together a very thought-provoking book titled 50 Ideas you…
Friday March 29 - April 4, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 13)
Ever wonder where all these mega-rich Russians came from? You know the type - the ones who buy and sell football teams, own mega-expensive motor cars and yachts. Well, this…
Friday March 22 - March 28, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 12)
When I originally picked up this book Romancing the East (ISBN-13: 978-0804843201, Tuttle Publishing, 2013) I thought it was an anthology collated by well-known writer Jerry Hopkins. I could not…
Friday March 15 - March 21, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 11)
One of the biggest problems with travel manuals is that they go out of date too quickly. Prices are wrong, or the enterprise has shifted or gone bust (many places…
Friday March 8 - March 14, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 10)
A ‘Kiss and Tell’ book this week, with a lady going by the name of Scarlett O’Kelly detailing what it is/was like to be a professional escort, read sex worker.…
Friday March 1 - March 7, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 9)
Noam Chomsky has made a name for himself (and justified) as being a deep thinker who believes in democracy and also the fact that everyone should be able to view…
Friday February 22 - February 28, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 8)
Kristen Rossi, the managing director of the Travel Easy Asia group has published an instruction manual called Maid in Thailand. Undoubtedly the stimulus to do this came from her own…
Friday February 15 - February 21, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 7)
Death in the City of Light is a thriller, in every sense of the word. However, as opposed to the many thrillers on the Bookazine Big C Extra shelves, Death…
Friday February 8 - February 14, 2013 (Vol. XXI No. 6)
I selected this book, Voodoo Histories (ISBN 978-0-099-47896-6, Vintage Books, 2009), subtitled “How Conspiracy Theory has Shaped Modern History” from the Bookazine Big C Extra shelf, thinking this was going…
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