So, you're kicking it back on the beach in Pattaya with your fried egg-flavored lollypop and your coffee-flavored Pepsi, and it hits you: "You know, the sun and sand is so idyllic and restful, I can't think of anything I'd like to do more than sit back on a lounge chair on the beach with a good book and allow all my troubles to just melt away."
But not just any book. A paperback. A Western. Yes - a tale of the Old West. Cowboys. Indians. Saloons. Gunfights. Sixshooters. Yeah!
Did I mention that it has to be written in Icelandic? Then "Saga Fra Texas" is the book for you!
That's one of the things I loved about Thailand. You never knew what you were going to find in some small shop, or a hotel bookshelf, or a street vendor. My other great book find in Pattaya -on the 'read and share" shelf of a small, private hotel (where you drop your book for other travellers after you've finished reading it) - a brand-new French cookbook specializing in recipes using liquour (like Grand Marnier). Great cookbook - but who humped it all the way from France on their vacation, only to abandon it unread for me to find? I dunno, but if I could I'd thank them anyway.
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