I read quite a lot of it. Then it was overdue at the library
just about the same time as people started getting flayed, so
I didn't renew it. Very interesting spiritual angle. Also an
interesting forward by the author (British, I think) in which
he reminds readers that what he has written is a "peculiarly
Western form of entertainment."
Karin
At 05:24 PM 20/07/2006 +0000, Stephen Blackmoore <
stephen@shadowshow.net> wrote:
>I read Bangkok 8 when it came out. Loved it. What
made it
>particularly interesting for me is that the
protagonist is a Buddhist
>and incorporates his beliefs into everything he does,
including his
>job. The fact that he holds long conversations with
his dead partner
>and accepts prophetic dreams as clues is simply a
given for him. It's
>an interesting take on crime fiction and Eastern
spirituality.
>
>The follow-up to it, Bangkok Tattoo veered a little
away from that
>and, I think, suffered a little for it. Still a very
good read. IMHO.
>
>===
>--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
><miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>>
>> I started this yesterday. Some books I labor my
way
>> through, but this one is smooth as silk. So far,
an
>> interesting and enjoyable novel. It's about
a
>> half-Vietnamese, half-Caucasian cop working for
the
>> Bangkok police. His partner is killed at the
very
>> beginning and he's looking for revenge. Male
fiction
>> at its best.
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