{"product_id":"a-brass-pole-in-bangkok-a-thing-i-aspire-to-be-paperback","title":"A Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire to Be - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Oprah? I remember her,\" said Uncle Hant reflectively. \"Looks like five hundred pounds of bear liver in a plastic bag?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e So go the essays in \u003ci\u003eA Brass Pole in Bangkok\u003c\/i\u003e, sometimes wildly funny, sometimes deadly serious, always merciless in their unmasking of the pretenses and charlatans of society. Fred, a former Marine, subscribes to no ideology (\"an ideology is just a systematic way of misunderstanding the world\") but exuberantly wreaks havoc on practically everything, and delights in everything else: the psychotherapy swindle, squalling feminists, race racketeers, damn fool wars, red-light districts in Asia, and tequila fests in Mexico, where he lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Why marry, he asks? And answers: \"As a young man full of dangerous steroids, your answer will probably be, 'Ah, because her hair is like corn silk under an August moon; her lips are as rubies and her teeth, pearls; and her smile would make a dead man cry.' This amounts to, 'I'm horny, ' with elaborations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Behind the folksy approach lie a great deal of reading and thought by a man who has spent a lifetime in journalism, much of it overseas in places like Cambodia and Taiwan, where you find the snake butchers.but that is inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 19, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53774542405939,"sku":"9780595393909","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SybXgstpDX9780595393909.webp?v=1785488026","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-brass-pole-in-bangkok-a-thing-i-aspire-to-be-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}