Book reading: Bangkok Tattoo
I am reading John Burdett’s second book ( the first is Bangkok 8 ) out of curiousity, I’ve never read a Thailand detective, solves murderer case in Bangkok about prostitutes, sex industry, drug-dealers, bad cops, and so on…
Just by reading the cover make me anxious…
But thing that really make me reading is the author’s note:
Bangkok is one of the world’s great cities, all of which own read-light districts that find their ways into the pages of novels from time to time. The sex industry in Thailand is smaller per capita than in many other countries. That it is more famous is probably because the Thais are less coy about it than many other people. Most visitors to the kingdom enjoy wonderful vacations without coming across any evidence of sleaze at all. Indeed, the vast majority of Thais follow a somewhat strict Buddhist code of conduct.
On a related topic, I am bound to say that I have not myself come across police corruption in Thailand in any form, although the local media reports malpractice on almost a daily basis.
Compare to where I live, too many hypocrites, too much hypocrisy in many ways…
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