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Ghosts in the City of Angels Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170] It doesn't matter that Janet Brown is not superstitious. When living in Bangkok, she learns that believing in ghosts is not an option. It's an inescapable part of immersing herself in the local culture. Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Culture \| Literature \| Religion \| Traditions
Three Seasons Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170] Like nature, physical beauty is subject to the seasons, as Janet Brown discovers in this reflection on aging gracefully in Thailand. Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Literature \| Women & Travel \| Fashion
Nausea and Desire Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170] For Janet Brown, getting used to the smell of Bangkok---its "refuse, canal water, jasmine, heated garlic, freshly squeezed oranges, and bus exhaust fumes"---was one thing. Getting used to the stink of durian fruit was quite another ... Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Food \| Literature
Thai Means Free Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] A review of a book about the Free Thai, the anti-Japanese resistance movement during WWII. Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Literature \| 20th Century History
Thai Girls and All That Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of "Thai Girl" by Andrew Hicks. Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Literature
Pico Polo Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering to what extent Western - and especially American - culture had impinged on the cultures of the newly... Destinations: Nepal \| Bali \| Indonesia \| Tibet \| Tokyo \| Manila \| Hong Kong \| Mumbai \| India \| Lhasa \| China \| Kathmandu \| Thailand \| Japan \| Philippines \| Bangkok Topics: Travel \| Literature
Thailand's Shakespeare? Sunthorn Phu Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] "Oh, how everything was against me then. Even termites made their way to my bedroom. They ate the mat and destroyed all my books. It was distressing to think of those books And the yellow robes I used... Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Literature
Charles Baker's Drunken Oriental Junket Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] An NPR interviewer once asked writer David Sedaris why he had left New York and moved to Paris. His answer must have sent a frigid wind into every local chapter of Bores Against Anything Pleasurable. Destinations: Bali \| Indonesia \| Thailand \| Tokyo \| Japan \| Manila \| Philippines \| Bangkok Topics: Travel \| Literature
Great Novel, Pity About the Subject Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of John Burdett's Bangkok 8, Bantam Press, 2003. Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Literature
The Not-J.D. Salinger of Siam: S. P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Elsewhere I have mentioned the irritating habit of reviewers to compare second-rate authors to The Greats, as in "the Hemingway of Bangkok." Now I see that George Axelrod, screenwriter of Breakfast at... Destinations: Thailand \| Bangkok Topics: Literature

Ghosts in the City of Angels

Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170]

It doesn't matter that Janet Brown is not superstitious. When living in Bangkok, she learns that believing in ghosts is not an option. It's an inescapable part of immersing herself in the local culture.

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Culture | Literature | Religion | Traditions

Three Seasons

Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170]

Like nature, physical beauty is subject to the seasons, as Janet Brown discovers in this reflection on aging gracefully in Thailand.

Destinations: Thailand | Bangkok
Topics: Literature | Women & Travel | Fashion

Nausea and Desire

Tone Deaf in Bangkok - tonedeafinbangkok [170]

For Janet Brown, getting used to the smell of Bangkok---its "refuse, canal water, jasmine, heated garlic, freshly squeezed oranges, and bus exhaust fumes"---was one thing. Getting used to the stink of durian fruit was quite another ...