dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:24 pm
Just finished Wool and have just downloaded Shift (the prequel) and Dust
Oh cheers DM - I'm now totally confused as to what to read first!!
pharvey wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:02 am
The series includes the novels Wool (2011), Shift (2013), and Dust (2013). Silly expensive in print, but free at https://z-library.sk/s/Hugh%20Howey
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
Wool is the novel the tv series is based on, Dust follows on chronologically. Shift sets out how the world got to that stage. I'm going to read Dust next, then Shift.
dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:47 am
Wool is the novel the tv series is based on, Dust follows on chronologically. Shift sets out how the world got to that stage. I'm going to read Dust next, then Shift.
I'm debating whether or not to read Shift first now....
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
If I were starting again, I'd stick with Wool first, but I don't suppose it would make a huge amount of difference.
And lets face it, you're a bit weird...
Tony's bookstore? Whats the latest? Havent found a facebook page or website. Specifically what is the current policy now on exchanges? I have two bags of books that need to go somewhere . . . this includes new books. For a while the Blue and Yellow folks were only accepting books that they had previously stamped. Anyone been in lately?
As to Tony's Bookstore . . I answered my own question by dropping by. I discovered that Tony's is no more. The store is still there but now called "Baan Nang Sue." ( Reading House) There were people inside and from what I could see there are still books/bookstacks but the sign on the door was not welcoming. Basically a list of "no's" . . ."no exchange, no credit, no free books . . .etc." Have to wonder what happened to the stock and why the new name (English letters/Thai words.) Bottom line: no more Tony's which is a shame.
LolaBeltran wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:37 pm
As to Tony's Bookstore . . I answered my own question by dropping by. I discovered that Tony's is no more. The store is still there but now called "Baan Nang Sue." ( Reading House) There were people inside and from what I could see there are still books/bookstacks but the sign on the door was not welcoming. Basically a list of "no's" . . ."no exchange, no credit, no free books . . .etc." Have to wonder what happened to the stock and why the new name (English letters/Thai words.) Bottom line: no more Tony's which is a shame.
This is what I posted to you on the 26th November:
«As I mentioned in a previous post you can go to the monthly Book Swap at I Rice Restaurant, Rieb Tanrod Fai Road, Hua Hin Soi 68-70 (between Tira Tiraa condo and railway), Hua Hin. (On Google maps).
It takes place every 10th of the month from 11am to 3pm, just turn up, no need to leave any books but you can if you wish, also help yourself to what you like all free. You don't have to eat at the restaurant.»
Thanks Joelle . .I remember your suggestion and link to the book "fair" on the 10th of the month . . just havent managed to hit the date and I am unfamiliar with the locale.. Also interested in donating to the animal rescue. Never thought about that possibility. Thanks cameljocky.
LolaBeltran wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:27 am
Thanks Joelle . .I remember your suggestion and link to the book "fair" on the 10th of the month . . just havent managed to hit the date and I am unfamiliar with the locale.. Also interested in donating to the animal rescue. Never thought about that possibility. Thanks cameljocky.
What category of books do you have ? Maybe some forum members might be interested.
In compounds across South-east Asia, hundreds of thousands of people are made to commit cyberfraud. This shocking book, Scam, investigates.
For, over the past decade, criminal gangs from China and Taiwan have set up “compounds” in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and the Philippines, where the regulations and policing around these operations are lax. Here, thousands of workers – most of whom are trafficked from China – are made to work with 10 phones, 17 hours a day, attempting to con people around the world out of their money. In the process, the criminal bosses make billions of dollars, and use some of that money to line the pockets of politicians, police or local communities that might try to stop the operations.
The compounds, as Franceschini and co describe them, sound like places of complete misery and terror. Workers who are able to achieve certain targets for their bosses – such as, say, generating more than $10,000 a month through scams – are given rewards such as money, or better food, or even a brief spell of leave from the compound. For those who underperform, however, life becomes “a nightmare”. Most are tortured, which can range from severe beatings to electric shocks, sexual abuse and fingernail extraction. “We could hear the screams continuing until midnight,” a Chinese worker who escaped a Cambodian compound tells the authors. “They [the compound managers] made sure you understand that you do not want to be the next one to end up in the punishment room.”
It is still there and run by his partner who handled all the direct customer contact before.
They don't put books outside anymore as people used to take them without paying.
All the same rules about returns, buying books etc are still in place.
So, basically, apart from sadly, Tony no longer being with us, it is service as before. And, yes, it has a new Thai name
I still visit on a regular basis. They are not cheap by any means but they have a huge stock of books and I am an avid reader !!
