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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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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.
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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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Ratings: 4.08 From 4069 Users | 263 ReviewsArticle About Books The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
Quite a depressing book to be honest. A trafficker caught in the act who pays the ultimate price. Twelve years in a hellhole. Have to feel sorry for the guy but then you have to feel sorry for the heroin addicts who were addicted to his supplied product. Ironically he becomes an addict himself during his time behind bars. "Marching Powder" by Rusty Young is certainly a better, more uplifting tale, of life in prison for a trafficker. Much funnier too and at times, almost unbelievable!Finished this book in two short sittings. Ok it's not the best written book I have ever read but my the emotions it causes you to experience are intense.Warren is arrested in Thailand for attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country. Up to that point he never used them and to be honest was probably feeling cocky as he had successfully smuggled before. He will admit it was a choice he made without much thought and at no time is looking for sympathy. The book details his time in various prisons
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 quick read but not near as good as I expected it to be according to the ratings.Maybe I am spoiled but I have read 2 books about this same prison by 2 different Dutch guys.One of those books was so well written and told us the horrible experience he had to go through. But he did that in a much better way than Warren Fellows. This book felt rushed, written from the sideline.I do understand why this book got high ratings. I think that has lot to do with all the horrible and shocking things he
I'm rating this 3.5 out of 5. I'll start by saying this is no midnight express. There is no time to bond with the characters. The book feels rushed. At times years span pages rather than chapters.What I did read was eye opening, shocking and to be honest quite sad.Worth a read but don't go in expecting another midnight express. And, if you haven't yet read midnight express - read it
A shocking story of truth, survival and the hardest lesson learnt.
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