The ";"
click a letter to go
to the page with entries beginning with that letter.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Y-Z
|
The ";"
click a letter to go A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Y-Z
|
Click
here
for Search for: Please visit
|
"Hello
My Big Big Honey!" Compiled by Dave
Walker and Richard S. Ehrlich Many BangkokAtoZ.com visitors are already familiar with this book, which 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 through Amazon.com and is a must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in Thailand. You can buy it online through the link below -- and save 30% of the list price thanks to the good folks at Amazon.com! 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. Just click the logo below to go to the Amazon.com page with al your ordering information! (The Amazon.com will open in a new browser window; close it when you're done to return to this window.)
Below is the full body of an e-mail news release I received July 23, 2002 that led me to set up this page. A non-fiction book of interviews, documentation and investigative journalism, titled: "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews has now been published in the United States. "...an intimate portrait...does love conquer poverty, cultural barriers and the fear of AIDS? Sometimes..." -- TIME magazine A "masterwork" of "feminist research" -- The British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections This book was selected for Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism *Book Fair 2002* free 20-page text excerpt and 6 photos: http://ehrlich.tripod.com "A Freudian whirlpool of sexual fantasies and frustration, of damaged egos and haunting super-egos, of dreams of pure love and acts of cold calculation, and a milieu of cross-cultural mayhem" -- Far Eastern Economic Review magazine "A study of the bar girls" -- Le Monde newspaper, France Lonely Planet's Guide to Thailand, and Lonely Planet's Guide to Bangkok, both recommend this book in their "Culture and Society" section. Researched in Bangkok -- and now published in San Francisco -- this documentary book contains verbatim love letters written by American, European, Australian and other foreign men to bar girls in Bangkok. The foreign men's letters explain their emotions, demands, dreams and fears as they try to convince Thai women of their feelings. The book also includes extensive "Q and A" interviews with Thai bar girls about their relationships with foreign customers. The Thai women also express their personal views on the problems of AIDS, poverty, abuse, tradition and the search for true love in red-lit streets and rented rooms. Interviews with three blunt bar owners -- American, British and Thai -- and others probe the harsh depths of Bangkok's commercial sex industry. This book has been acquired by the British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections as a manuscript of unusual romantic relationships between East and West. Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City offers this book to its journalism students and others through the Lehman Social Science Library. The University of California Berkeley's Main Doe Library also presents this book for its teaching staff, students and the public interested in women's studies and related subjects. 252 pages, illustrated with 25 color photographs. ISBN: 0-86719-473-1 free 20-page text excerpt and 6 photos: http://ehrlich.tripod.com Bookshops / Universities / International Distribution: Publishers Group West, the book's Berkeley-based distributor, offers this book for U.S. and international distribution. Publishers Group West also provides "Hello My Big Big Honey!" as a university-level textbook for teachers and students focusing on Women Studies, Travel, Society, Third World issues and related topics. "A number of themes run through the book: prostitution, love, family, cultural stereotypes, AIDS. The most prominent, however, and perhaps the most interesting, is money. 'Hello My Big Big Honey!' is interesting and readable, surprising and engaging...intriguing...worthwhile." -- The Bangkok Post "...a collective scream of longing, loneliness, despair and delusion...For many men, these dangerous Thai liaisons are no laughing matter. They become obsessed and cannot let go." -- The South China Morning Post "This book is essential reading for anybody who wants to try and understand the attraction Asian women have..." -- Budapest Week "Besotted...passion can make men lose their grip on reality...What's love got to do with it, when Bangkok bar girls offer 'hospitality'...these intimate letters reveal true feeling between Western men and their Eastern girls. Bangkok's notorious girly bars attract businessmen and lager louts alike, to live out their sexual fantasies with hostesses with the mostest...Thai women seem passive, but are capable of fighting back...wives back home are rarely understanding." -- London's News of the World Sunday Magazine "'Honey!' is an obsessive look at romantic and financial need...The letters from these men to their paid companions are sometimes delusional and sometimes quite practical...it's better to have cared briefly than never to have cared at all. (And that might even be the moral of this book.)" -- Tracy Quan, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl To read 20 pages of free excerpts, view 6 of the 25 color photos, see all of the book reviews in full, plus readers' responses and university thesis papers which reference this book please click on the website: http://ehrlich.tripod.com This website includes links to the book's San Francisco publisher, Berkeley distributor and to Amazon.com and other sites throughout the world -- plus information on how this book was written.
|
|
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 by Kurt T. Francis, except as noted otherwise. Materials by Christopher G. Moore, Dean Barrett, Richard K. Diran, Sonia Pressman Fuentes, and Hardy Stockmann are copyrighted © by those respective authors. All rights reserved. Please see the Copyright Notice for further information. Click here for our Privacy Statement Please direct all inquiries to MekhongKurt [at] BangkokAtoZ.com
|
