Canterbury Tales Guesthouse

[Daveo]

On 18/11/2021 at 13:43, Ziplee said:

Hi ya Dave

If I wanted to check what rooms you may have to rent, is it better to look through Air BnB or email you or PM you here?

Probably best airbnb as all up to date.

Best regards Dave

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Some of the books in recently.....

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books in recently..

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On 23/11/2021 at 06:34, Daveo said:

 

Now that is high praise indeed! Assuming they mean (my favourite author) Patrick O'Brian

Anyone here familiar with this Furst cove?

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This room above the bookshop available now @ 8,000 per month plus water and electric

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This room above the bookshop available now until 30/12 @ 400 per night plus water and electric

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books in recently..

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Feel at Home in Thailand, at Ease Living and Working with the Thais, and at Peace in Unfamiliar Surroundings.

This book is an informative and entertaining introduction for foreigners who are interested in getting to know Thai culture and society, and learning about Thai work and business practices.

The observations and anecdotes are both humorous and practical, covering many aspects of Thai living, and succinctly illustrating the differences between Thai and Western cultures, and even between urban and rural society within Thailand.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Daveo

[Daveo]

Reader review..

Geoffrey Franklin is an English artist-writer and Pattaya resident, who has met up with other Pattaya book writers such as Duncan Stearn and Neil Hutchison and has launched himself as a book writer.

As far as I can gather, Raconteur’s Pattaya Tales is his first book.

 

The book consists of many chapters following the lives and exploits of expat characters as they experience Thai life and Thai mythology, with a Thai policeman (Took) as the central figure. As such, it then becomes more than a travelogue or the usual foreign man meets Thai girl and falls in love soapy, but a collection of fairy tales set in Thailand.

The back cover admits to this, “These stories are fictional, but truth is often stranger than fiction and every good yarn has an essential thread of truth within it.” It also declares, “Many of the events in these stories often involved or were witnessed by the author.”

The events included in the book reveal exorcism, giant cloned nagas, drug busts, Songkran, Loy Krathong, the Yasothon rocket festival and karaoke, that mainstay of Thai nightlife entertainment, as well as much else.

While author Geoffrey Franklin is obviously a skilled raconteur, and the events described perhaps occasionally a little too fanciful for my liking, I thought the book was let down in some ways by the dialogue of the Thai people being quoted. The bar girl Dum’s conversation is reported in the usual stilted (Th)English, but North East local politicians are quoted as having perfect English expression.

This is something which does not ring true and adds to the ‘fictional’ feel of the items, I am afraid. The policeman Took is another with perfect English, which differentiates him from around 99.9 percent of the local boys in brown that I have ever met. Take for example the conversation between Took and Sid (the Englishman whose exploits take up much of the book) with Took saying, “I have to tell you that over the last month, between Bangkok and Pattaya we’ve hosted two Lord Lucans, three Bobby Charltons, a Diego Maradona, an Adolf Hitler and numerous reincarnations of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.” I am willing to wager that 99.9 percent of Pattaya’s policemen are unlikely to have heard of any of them other than Elvis Presley, who still plays at the Captain’s Corner on Wednesday evenings and Thursday and Fridays at the Jomtien Boathouse!

Ignoring the language inconsistencies, the book does show that author Franklin has experienced and understands (as much as a foreigner can understand) many of the subtle nuances that makes up Thailand’s customs, culture and people.

The chapter on the spirit house was interesting, and shows just how deeply that animism is rooted within Thai culture, and also shows just how deeply the spirit of ‘sanuk’ also lies!

At B. 450 (Asia Books) Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Pattaya, 180 baht plus the trade back - it does give an insight, and being written in complete stand-alone chapters, it is an easy pick up and put down read. As a ‘first’ book it is well written..

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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max #1) by Tucker Max.....

The Book That Inspired The Movie..

My name is Tucker Max, and I am an *sshole.

I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead.

But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world.

[Daveo]

Marcus Luttrell, author of the Lone Survivor, share war stories about true American heroism from himself and other soldiers who bravely fought alongside him.

Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him -- and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything-including themselves-for the sake of family, nation, and freedom.

In Service, we follow Marcus Luttrell to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world: Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where Luttrell offers powerful new details about his miraculous rescue. Throughout, he reflects on what it really means to take on a higher calling, about the men he's seen lose their lives for their country, and the legacy of those who came and bled before.

A thrilling war story, Service is also a profoundly moving tribute to the warrior brotherhood, to the belief that nobody goes it alone, and no one will be left behind.

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The Messianic Legacy

Michael Baigent - Richard Leigh - Henry Lincoln..

The startling, frighteningly convincing sequel to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail that reveals the very nature of the Messianic Legacy.

After the shocking revelations of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail the authors, in their quest to determine the discrepancies between early and modern 'Christian' thought, found that they were forced to ask such questions as:

*Was there more than one Christ?

*Was Christ the founder of Christianity?

*Were the disciples as peace-loving as it is traditionally assumed?

*What links the Vatican, the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, Freemasonry, P2, Opus Dei and the Knights Templar

*What mysterious modern crusade implicates British industry, Churchill and de Gaulle, the EEC and Solidarity?

The Messianic Legacy offers enthralling new investigations into the shadowy society of the 'Prieure de Sion' - 'The Guardians of the Holy Grail' - as the authors discover the murky world of politics, finance, freemasonry, and religion that exists beneath the most solid and conservative seeming of European institutions: the Church.

The ominous global conspiracy of disinformation's they uncovered ensures that The Messianic Legacy us an up-to-the-minute thriller and a work of biblical detection that is even more significant than The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

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Edited December 16, 2021 by Daveo

[Daveo]

Venusberg Revisited: More Stories of Thailand

by John Cadet..

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This basic budget 1st floor room with A/C - good monthly deals - 250 baht per night + water and electric

[Daveo]

Good monthly deals available,,

available now for 6,000 baht per month plus water and electric.

other rooms available..

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What's Sex Got to Do with it by Dennis Dewsnap

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Vintage Herbert 60 baht each

& other Sci-fi & fantasy

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Budget room..1st floor above the bookshop..

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Available from 27/1 to 24/2

Discreet back door..

Edited January 23, 2022 by Daveo