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| Original Title: | The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison |
| ISBN: | 184018275X (ISBN13: 9781840182750) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Warren Fellows
hardcover | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.08 | 4069 Users | 263 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison |
| Author | : | Warren Fellows |
| Book Format | : | hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2002 by Mainstream Publishing (first published January 1st 1998) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Mystery |
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4,000 Days was offered to me as an excellent way to get myself out of a reading slump. I'd burned myself out on 400 page novels with brilliant writing and needed something a bit less involving. While I'm not entirely happy with the book, the recommendation was spot on and I found myself finishing it in one sitting. Telling the story of Warren Fellows, 4,000 Days is more-or-less exactly what the cover promises. Told in a simple, straight-forward style, it is a loose and hurried account of a man's experiences being ruined in the Bangkok prison system. While it is certainly gruesome from cover to cover, it is not a collection of unbelievably horrible things. It is instead a collection of perfectly credible horrible things, and although the author never forces details down your throat, he manages to get the point across of just how much time passed before he was finished coping with the abuse piled on him daily. All in all, it's a bit more nihilistic than I'd hoped, and the gloom and doom does not make for especially light reading, but it managed to keep me gripped the whole way through nonetheless. I'm not about to start recommending it left and right, but there are much worse ways to spend a cold winter's afternoon.Rating Epithetical Books The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
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Of all the drug smuggling, banged - up - abroad type books I've read (and there's been a lot) this is one of the best. Very well written.One star for some of the elements of Thai culture that I found interesting. As for the rest....granted, I've been a corrections officer for a while now, so I'm probably just biased, but I just didn't feel sorry for him. It wasn't just that he was trying to enrich himself by running drugs and feeding off of the addictions of drug addicts, although that in itself isn't very endearing, but his behavior prior to his imprisonment just showed Warren Fellows to be loathsome and excremental, as when he
This an extremely hard-hitting book, with very graphic and disturbing stories from the author. This is an excellent book to give teenagers and anyone does not have the full understanding of the unglamourous consequeces of drugs and drug peddling.
Absolute favourite book. Mind blowing! Awesome.
A shockingly true story of two aussies jailed for drug trafficking in Bangkok in 1978 for 12 years.Whether they deserved it or not is besides the point. The horror and the cruelty of the guards and the inmates has to be read to be believed. While telling the reader of their experiences it is distressing to read about the graphic details of many other young travellers from all over Europe who disappear in to this hell hole, some never to be seen again. A must read if you want to know and avoid
A good book to get information from Bang Kwang Prison, but as reading something loose.
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