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Edited July 8, 2023 by Daveo

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more books in everyday 

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@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop/book exchange - Pattaya. We have a huge selection of Travel guides, some older but a big % of the info doesn't change and at a fraction of the price of a brand new version, packed full of History, Culture, Facts etc 

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man.

by Charles Bukowski.

A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.

"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money.

She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away . . ."

"These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." Canterbury Tales Bookshop/book exchange - Pattaya.

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five.

His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). Other Bukowski books published by City Lights Publishers include More Notes of a Dirty Old Man, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, and Absence of the Hero.

He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.

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Great reads to look out for!! 

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I of the Sun.
by Richard Arthur.
In terms of your place in the world, it's your actions that define you. Every moment of your life you are always, necessarily doing something. 
And so the question is - why do you do what you do? 
A young man travels on a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia to find out, in search of freedom and everything that comes with it. Free from responsibility, free from others, free from himself. 
He discovers paradise islands and electric cities, and gets hooked on crazy liquor, cheap pills, loose women and easy living. Navigating through a Jungle of Butterflies and ladyboys, socio-narcotic minefields, hustlers, mafia, mad men and mystics, he surfs the line between reality and imagination, sanity and madness, and life and death itself. 
I of the Sun also voyages through many areas of philosophy, science and history, to discover whether or not we truly have free will - and if we do, then how do we control ourselves? 
At turns hilarious and horrifying, beautiful and ugly, Richard Arthur's debut novel takes you on an epic journey following the Sun around Southeast Asia and into the very heart of human consciousness, in this literary and philosophical tour de force.

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Delighted to discover that, having acquired much more space, the Canterbury Tales are now rapidly-expanding their stock of books, once again !  Clearly the BEST book-exchange in Pattaya !

And well worth the longer walk, to get there out in the wilds of Soi-Bonkoch-6, see you again later today, Dave !  😎

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Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy

by Bill Gates.

 

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360 Leader by John C. Maxwell

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