Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton: The Gruesome True Story of a Man Who Survived Thailand's Deadliest Prisons

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This book does suffer a little bit from a lack of structure but otherwise is definitely worth a read. This wasn’t really a narrative style story and once it was implied that it started as short snippets for a paper it made more sense why it was set out this way. Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner ( farang) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality.

Tale's like the ones in the book have been played out in movies and in audio before, but nothing like you will hear. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I don’t know how inmates live and survive their hellish situation day by the day for the rest of their lives!I found this book more of a stack of very short stories of other prisoners histories, when I had been expecting more of a biography of the authors time in prison. Collection of short essays about an American’s hard time in two of Thailand’s most notorious prisons. Download Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton: The Gruesome True Story of a Man Who Survived Thailand’s Deadliest Prisons by T.

This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. While attempting to “adjust” to this third-world hellhole, he contracts tuberculosis and nearly loses his life. I have read a lot of books about people being in prison all over the world - but this was one of the better books. Through his eyes, readers will experience the bizarre events of daily life in a Thai maximum security prison: feel the weight of the chains he wears, the stomachaches from lack of food, witness the murders, drug overdoses, torture, and unbridled cruelty that ensues.He finally settled in Thailand, first in Bangkok and then in the northern city of Chiang Mai, where he committed the crime that is never explicitly named in the short narratives that make up this prison memoir (the cover copy suggests it was related to his failure to report a friend for murder, and documents reproduced inside suggest he was charged officially as an accessory). I think it is hard for me to appreciate books of this kind as much after reading the terrifying "The Damage Done".

Had to stop listening when the author likened himself to a vampire getting energy from deaths during a storm. The author doesn't really allude to the nature of his crime but I respected the fact that he accepted his punishment and didn't moan on about being incarcerated in this hel hole. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us.It is narrated very well by a non annoying American reader who brings to life the daily hell of the prison the story is set in. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Sadly this was a culmination of other people’s narrative that didn’t quite come together as smoothly. Can not recommend this book highly enough to any interested in this sort of subject, but it is not for the faint hearted or squeamish .