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Summary: highly intriguing and poignant
Review: Since reading it from cover-to-cover, I already lent it out twiceI found its premise highly intriguing, and its content poignant and pertinent to anyone interested in hearing about this shade of romance. Congratulations on collaborating on such a work of social importance. Thank you.
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Summary: it really is special
Review: That there is prostitution in Thailand is a fact. I want to mention one book about the subject, because it really is special. The title is "Hello My Big Big Honey" and it consists of love letters written by former "clients" to Thai prostitutes as well as interviews with some of the girls. This shows you the differences between prostitution in Thailand and in Western countries, as well as the attitude of the girls who work in that business... Rene Hasekamp, Patent Examiner at the Dutch Patent Office, and deputy judge at the District Court ("Arrondissementscrechtbank") in the Hague, Netherlands
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Summary: a big impact
Review: The book made a bigger impact on how I view Thailand and the fact that I'm half Thai. How my heart really goes out to these women and how my mom has been away from Thailand for the past 20 years. But also how my father was on vacation the time he met my mother. In the back of my head I've always had thoughts that perhaps my mother was one of these bar girls because she has never fully gone into detail of how they met. "We were introduced by friends. I worked at a zoo." That's all I know! It never made sense since my mom didn't speak an ounce of English when they met. I'm very curious but I don't want to disrespect my mom and ask if she was a bargirl (she'd slap me upside my head) hehe. Not to mention she'd probably deny it. Your book has brought insight and how much struggle these women have to go through to make ends meet and even how my mom could be considered lucky to have left a bad situation and found her "white man." The book was very thought provoking and it really struck a nerve with me Now if I can only save up to head back to see my family!
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Summary: This book is considered a classic in Asia
Review: This book is an excellent one that reveals much
about Thai bar girls' attitudes, thoughts, hopes, and fears
through their love letters and interviews with them. The book is now available in the United States
and is a must-read for anyone with even a
passing interest in Thailand. Take the time to read and reflect on the contents of this
wonderful book, especially if you're a man planning on
coming to The Land of Smiles in search of love. While it's
a fact that a *few* men have succeeded in courting and
wedding bar girls (and staying wed to them for many years,
raising families), it's a larger fact that most don't
succeed. This book is considered a classic in Asia,
especially among Old Thai Hands, and in the view of many
ought to be required reading for anyone planning on coming
here and checking out the night life.
Rating:
Summary: This book is considered a classic in Asia
Review: This book is an excellent one that reveals much
about Thai bar girls' attitudes, thoughts, hopes, and fears
through their love letters and interviews with them. The book is now available in the United States
and is a must-read for anyone with even a
passing interest in Thailand. Take the time to read and reflect on the contents of this
wonderful book, especially if you're a man planning on
coming to The Land of Smiles in search of love. While it's
a fact that a *few* men have succeeded in courting and
wedding bar girls (and staying wed to them for many years,
raising families), it's a larger fact that most don't
succeed. This book is considered a classic in Asia,
especially among Old Thai Hands, and in the view of many
ought to be required reading for anyone planning on coming
here and checking out the night life.
Rating: 
Summary: Boring Book Ruins An Interesting Topic
Review: This book represents a well conceived but primitively executed publication in which the "author(s)" have merely collected a series of forlorn but repeditive "love" letters to Bangkok go-go dancers from their smitten, oddball foreign "customers". The letters themselves do reflect a kind of sappy desperation, but grow very boring very quickly. The book includes several interviews with the bar girls themselves which prove to be the only interesting part; both in the girl's world outlook and in their comical butchery of the English language. Otherwise, this book is a waste. The most annoying thing about the book is the photographs- they look like they were taken twenty years ago with some tourist's Kodak Disk camera. Almost half seem to be of katoeys (male transsexuals/ transvestites) and all are thoroughly uninspired. The "authors" seem to limit themselves only to women in the Patpong go-go bar areas and do not explore other issues in the strange farang/bargirl subculture. It is hard to believe somebody could publish such an uninteresting book based on such a bizarre and fascinating topic as the Bangkok sex trade, but this is it. BORING.
Rating:
Summary: Boring Book Ruins An Interesting Topic
Review: This book represents a well conceived but primitively executed publication in which the "author(s)" have merely collected a series of forlorn but repeditive "love" letters to Bangkok go-go dancers from their smitten, oddball foreign "customers". The letters themselves do reflect a kind of sappy desperation, but grow very boring very quickly. The book includes several interviews with the bar girls themselves which prove to be the only interesting part; both in the girl's world outlook and in their comical butchery of the English language. Otherwise, this book is a waste. The most annoying thing about the book is the photographs- they look like they were taken twenty years ago with some tourist's Kodak Disk camera. Almost half seem to be of katoeys (male transsexuals/ transvestites) and all are thoroughly uninspired. The "authors" seem to limit themselves only to women in the Patpong go-go bar areas and do not explore other issues in the strange farang/bargirl subculture. It is hard to believe somebody could publish such an uninteresting book based on such a bizarre and fascinating topic as the Bangkok sex trade, but this is it. BORING.
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Summary: Very interesting to say the least
Review: This book was very interesting and fascinating to really hear about the inside world of the bar girls in Thailand. It really opened my eyes more on how lovestruck farangs really are and how broken hearted and callous the girls can become. It is obviously a means to survive, quite frankly the ONLY reason they do what they do, so it is no surprise they share their "love" with the men that become their clients. Oh the flip side, it is understandable, but sad to see the farangs who have trouble finding intimacy and love at home to quickly "fall in love." I have a great desire to go to Thailand and for a 41yo single male, I find this book a revelation on how not to fall in love and why! Seriously, I would have ranked this 5 stars had it been more heavily weighted on the interviews of the girls and the bar owners rather a 50-50 on those and the love letters from the farangs. After reading a handful of the letters, it was the same old pathetic "I love you and miss you." Do not let this influence your decision in buying this book, it is a real eye-opener
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Summary: Tells It Like It Is
Review: This is a great book that tells it like it is. This book reveals the thoughts and minds of those who delve into this subculture. For a Farang, it is a foreign culture, and within this foreign culture, this is a subculture. If a person reads this before going they will have some additional social skills and street smarts to recognize certain things that people say and do. After being able to recognize these things they'll be able to correctly asses their own situation more properly. This book will also help Farang men stay grounded and not let fantasy take them too far off of the ground, for many times that's what the Farang-Thai Lady relationship is. In other cases, the fantasy turns into a reality long term. And that is great. For some who doubted the veracity of the Farangs, authors and ladies, you probably spent your time looking from afar, and not getting too close. Afraid of something? It reveals how things work. If you've been in these situations before, you'll feel a sense of deja vu. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: This is a very intimate portrait
Review: This very funny and at times poignant book reveals the love pangs of foreign "boyfriends" who write love letters to their beloved Thai bar girls. Journalists Walker and Ehrlich interviewed the girls and got their hands on a cache of those love letters. What they reveal is a complex interplay of ego, loneliness, lust, love, a loose grip on reality, and cold calculation on both sides of the correspondence. This is a very intimate portrait of the Thai prostitution industry from an unlikely perspective, informative as well as entertaining, and a bestseller in Asia.
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