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Summary: There are far worse crimes
Review: I think some people do deserve what warren went through,but certainley not warren.child murderers,molesters,rapists let them all rot. Anyone who takes heroin takes it because they wanted too,alcohol abuse is by far a bigger killer,home wrecker,child destroyer than heroin. yes its a terrible drug but arent they all? Its a terrific story,i believe it,and our thoughts should be with all the "pawns" of the drug trade left to rot while the fat cats have the cream.
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Summary: Forget Midnight Express....
Review: Did someone really complain that this book had no character depth? That it was poorly written? I'm sure Warren Fellows would like it to be a fantasy. Then he could happily take complaints about his poor writing etc.
This is a story of horrific treatment of humans. OK, he made a mistake and had to pay for it but no way did he deserve a fraction of what he got.
I bought this book in Bangkok and since i have become fascinated with this aspect of an otherwise gentle frienbly people. How can they treat other humans, especially their own race, like this?
The accounts here of how the guards treated their fellow Thai men are among the worst stories here and that's saying a lot!
The things recounted here are truly terrible.
Just buy it and read for a terriblly real account of abuse of power and total lack of human rights.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!
Review: This book is, to say the least, one of the best I've read. Warren writes passionitley about the time he spent in Bangkok. He analyzes other inmates, guards, and life in general with the knowledge of great expieriance.This book tells the story of Warren's first introduction to heroin smuggling to his narrow escapes to his capture. He writes from the heart, making you feel as if you are right there alongside of him, watching countless tortures and executions. You feel him go numb to these daily displays of inhumanity, you feel his pain and hopelessness. In those few hours it takes you to read this book you feel yourself wanting to yell "Don't listen to him!! Don't do it!!! He's tricking you!!" and wishing you could go back and tell him it would be okay, don't worry. This is a powerfully written book, and I recommend it to anyone thinking of trafficking drugs or anyone who would like a good read to prove to them how wonderful their life really is.
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Summary: Candid and Sad
Review: This book is not written by a pro writter and it shows. But what you loose in style, you gain in candour. Next time you feel like complaining about something trivial, think about this man. He has suffred the way few of us will ever do. And he makes no attempt to justify himself. By the way some American prisons are not much better than what Warren Fellows describes in this book. Some are worse. At least he has some freedom to move around within the prison walls. Inmates on death row are locked up 23 hours a day in a cage.
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Summary: Splendid, I thought. Yes, I thought splendid!!!!!
Review: I first read this book a couple of years ago(1998) and it was the first book that I literally could not put down. So much so that I was sitting in my armchair at home, due to venture out for the evening and had to take it in the car with me when my lift arrived. I have recently bought my own copy and am currently reading it for the second time and enjoying it more than the first. The way Fellows stops the recall momentarily to try and communicate with the reader, his difficulty in telling the story and for us to try and have any concept of duration of time. He says that he was in a darkroom, chained to a wall for a month...........imagine that.........I can't. He says that he has not told this story to bring pity on himself, but I do pity him. I'm reading this on the commute to London and find myself constantly lifting my head from the pages to envisage myself in one of the horrifying situations that he had been. I'd like to think that I would be able to go into survival mode but the reality is I simply could not cope. Read it!
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Summary: Life in Hell
Review: I bought this book a week ago and thus far two of my friends and myself have completed it. It's a very fast read and certainly grabs the attention of the reader. Like others have said, I also live in Thailand and suspect that some of the incidents were exaggerated or at least not explained in context. Even so, this book makes for a worthwhile read and should serve as a solid warning to anyone thinking about messing with the drug trade here.
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Summary: Bangkok Monkey House
Review: Warren Fellows, details of his terrible life in the Bangkok prison system are amazing. He shows us all the ultimate bottom that the drug trade can lead to. You can feel the sense of horror and pain that Fellows must have felt. Wether it was watching someone die as the gaurd beat them or his descriptions of a Thai man fighting for his life as he was slowly walked to the execution chamber, all his little stories keep you reading. He leaves us in the end with the hope that his story could change at least one persons fate away from the infamous drug trade.
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Summary: Gripping Story
Review: It is hard to believe that this story is real. It seems that parts of the author's story may have really happened, but I believe that his story was exagerated. I am from Thailand, and many places he explains in this book don't even exist.
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Summary: Harrowing but not especially well written
Review: Warren Fellows tells a tale definitely worthy of being told, one with an embedded moral lesson, but one lacking descriptive power and emotional poignancy. Many of the scenes from his life, in and outside the prison, are told matter of factly and sometimes his use of cliches is distracting. The daily occurrences in the prison are not substantively discussed in this book, only the tradegies and tortures of his incarceration. This makes the 10 years he spent in Thailand's prison system seem to go by in a flash. He does relate many of the horrors he endured and makes us aware of the inhumanity of prison life. Anyone who reads this book must commend Warren Fellows on his ability to withstand atrocities seemingly unbearable. This book is a fast read and anyone who has seen Midnight Express will be reminded of the images portrayed in that film. The ending of the book is the most emotive as Mr. Fellows struggles to cope with his return to the 'real world'. His survival of his ordeal is certainly amazing.
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Summary: Prison is not paradise
Review: I am Thai. Many of you may believe what happened to this author. But I don't believe in all the incidents. Please take a look back at prisons in your country. I have been in the US for study for 3 years. I heard lots of horrible stories about your prisons. I heard about violences in prisons, especially the from private prisons where there are not enough guards to watch inmates. I heard about guards got killed, inmates raped each other, prison breaking, drug in prisons, etc. Have you ever been to a prison in your town? Visit there some time. It may help open your narrow mind. I think it is not fair to judge a country from opinions of a man who look at the country with a bitter vision. Don't believe in what a stranger says until you can prove it yourself.
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