Bangkok Days
A great book to read during a time when it's hard to travel. Bangkok Days investigates various nooks and crannies of the Big Mango that, while fascinating, I don't particularly want to go to personally. Osborne is “on the lam” in Bangkok a place he can live cheap, he makes this discovery while visiting to have dental work done. “The days were empty by design. I didn’t have a job; I was on the lam, as old American gangsters had it. A perfect phrase. The lam. It means “headlong flight,” according to my Webster’s dictionary. Lamming, to run away.” The book is meandering and unstructured, but Osborne is such a good observer and writer that this doesn't matter. His days are not completely empty, he becomes a flâneur, a man who wanders observing society - through the malls and nightlife districts - and less accessible neighbourhoods. “This part of Rattanakosin just north of the canal which empties into the river is one of the few remnants of the old city that the authorities, no ...