Book swap

[Condoking]

Dawn, great idea but not sure if I can get there.

While you're at Dicks office it may be worthwhile talking to the boss about another thread running, I am sure he can pass on some of his wisdom and experiences in bringing up kids.

[DawnHRD]

Dick's Office is in Soi Sarawat (sp?), often still called Soi Hotpot, although the Hotpot restaurant is no longer on the corner. The soi is on the right hand side of Petchkasem a little after the Satukarn square/Police station traffic lights. It should be on the map. No tux needed.

OK, just checked the map & Dick's Office isn't on there & I can't remember if it's soi 78 or 80. Unless anyone can tell me before I'll check today & edit this. That would make it B or C 8/9 on the City Map. Will edit this when I find out for sure.

[Chas]

Dawn, I am packing up my books now and I know the time. . .but I have NO clue where.

What kind of "office" is it and who is Dick? Even with the right number soi, what am I looking for anyway? Is it a realty office or a private home?

[Randy Cornhole]

Dicks office is a bar, its up soi hot pot on the left hand side on a corner. There arn't many bars up there so its not too hard to find...

[niggle]

I'll be there barring flood, famine or the 3rd world war.
Only gat 1/2 dozen or so but owts better than nowt

[Chas]

Dawn, I still don't have a clue and I do hate wandering about. Can you give me the soi number please? ( I am not a fan of hotpots and would have conveniently forgotten any hotpot restaurant I ever saw)

On the right side of Petchkasem but going which way? Is this soi on the ocean side or the mountain side?

And does the bar have a name?

I will check the map of Hua Hin though. Maybe I can figure it out.

The maps are no help. Nothing like soi "Sarawat" on there and no bar near where I think it might be

[Wanderlust]

Chas,
Soi Sarawat is Soi 80, on the mountain side of Petchkasem. There is a 7-11 on the north corner of it. The name of the bar is 'Dick's Office' and it is about 100 - 150 metres up the soi on the left hand side, past Butterfly Rock (if you know where that is). Square D9 on the Hua Hin City Map.
Hope that helps

[Chas]

WL thanks SO much.
That clears up my confusion. ( I would have been wandering about on one of those sois much closer to Satukarn Square.)
I have two bags of books packed and I plan to be there!

[dan]

so i've got around 25 no think, formulaic, detective novels that a former friend left at my house .....my dilemma is that i don't want anyone to know that i'm in possession of this drivel as i'm actually an intellectual in my own small mind. perhaps i could just drop them off the day b4 or better yet wear a brown paper bag on my head on saturday.....i'm sure i'll figure something out .....


"one man's drivel is another's dostoevski"

[dtaai-maai]

Dan, I think the brown paper bag is a wonderful idea, and if you write Dan on it in large capital letters, I'll know exactly who to approach!

[norm]

Come on Dan you can tell us. You read them all just to make sure they were somehing you did not want to read, right.

[Chas]

I read just about anything that comes into my possession in English. Yes. a lot of what I have are "escapist" fiction, detective novels and the like ( wouldn't call them drivel).

I have read all the classics ( and reread some favorites) and now I read for relaxation and entertainment and see no reason to be embarrassed by that.

[DawnHRD]

Agree with you 100% Chas. I read loads of novels for enjoyment. I don't really care if people think I'm intelligent, or not.

I've also read many of the classics and I can report:

I hate Hardy

War & Peace was the most torturous thing I've ever read - but being a closet intellectual at that time, I felt I had to read it. If it was an ordinary novel, I'd have given up 2 chapters in.

I love Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Gerald Seymour, Minette Walters & others - they write bloody good stories.

Many 'classics' of those days were actually scorned when they were written. Shakespeare was merely a 'screenwriter'. He wrote what was popular.

Dickens wrote serials - popular stories in short form to get people buying periodicals.

See you all on Saturday

[niggle]

Trashy ??? psuedo intellectual talk - see I cant even spell pseudo !!
Same as many - some "classics" are good, some are trashy.
Nothing I like better than a good trashy novel with a singha - bliss

[Chas]

I agree Dawn. . .there is nothing like a good story! And you list some of my favorite writers. ( One modern fiction writer who I think is phenomenal is Annie Proulx.

I happen to like Hardy though. He wrote so beautifully, but I doubt that I would curl up with Tess of the Durbervilles. . .again. I like Dickens too ( my favorite is Great Expectations) but having majored in Lit and taught it for so many years, it seems more like work to me now and not a leisure activity.

Another genre I like a lot is historical fiction and I have gotten hooked on the Falco series by Lindsey Davis. Then I really love the funny, laugh-out-loud storytellers like Carl Hiasen. (I am not bringing books by either of these on Saturday because I want to keep them.)