Bangkok Boy

One interesting book that I read few weeks ago. So I thought of giving it a short review of the storyline and content. * I am so happy as this is my first English book this year!

It was written by Chai Pinit. He did not actually wrote it by it was translated and transformed into book by another person his name I cannot recall. =) . Talking about the book, I can say that it is worth reading. Eventhough it is quite expensive (it costs me RM45.90, well that is the price after 10% discount (NP: RM 49.90) membership card with the book store, I still have to sacrifice my food for a week!).

The story goes around Chai Pinit, the elders from a teacher (father) and a witchdoctor (mother) * he keeps calling the occupation of his mother as a "medium" for spirits. Chai was molested by his teacher, but with his willingness for a 100 baht in each session. *Is that still considered as molest? Oh yes, especially when you are only 10 years old. But in the mean time he fell in love with this girl, cannot remember her name. But she didnt like him because he was not "man" enough.

"Man" here means he is not being macho, tough, rich or popular in school. *Oh, how poor is that mindset? I could not say much as they are living in a rural area up to the north, and the story was like in 1960's, so not much information about being stereotype and so forth. Chai will drink alcoholic drinks, smoke and fight with other boys. Being a "man" in the family is another thing. U must set to be a good example to the other siblings especially you are the elders to another 4 brothers and sister. The parents expectation is much higher and the kids are always taught to boast the family "good image and status".

He could not finish school as he was lazy and always drunk and went to Pattaya to work with his uncle but things went wrong where he met this white guy named Chris and he was his first encounter to male to male sex. He then moved to Bangkok because of better oppurtunity. He serves as a male dancer in the ago-go boy bar and club. He is very young so he turned to be very popular among the farangs (white guys).

Here comes the ununderstandable part. He works as a male dancer, to attract another male, and have sex with them (either orally or anally), but at the same time after work hours he and his other male dancers will go and find the woman prostitute. They had sex, even asked them to moved in and live with them. At some point, Chai pregnanted this woman and she gave birth to a baby boy, which then one of his customers (a male farang) bought a baby set for his newborn. I think that they considered an ago-go dancer as part of a professional job. They were ups and downs in his life which is quite complicated for me to summarize here. Also problems with his family, how his father died after he was beaten up by the other villagers due to an accident which caused his son died.

If I am going to write the review I think it would be a long one. So why not you guys just head over to MPH, Borders, Kinokuniya or Popular to get a copy of this and read it by yourself? :)