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superacidjax
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Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:08 am Post subject: Brother One Cell |
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This book is highly recommended. The whole dynamic about a foreigner in a Korean prison is outstandingly depicted.
Here's the nutshell: American, comes to Korea to teach, goes on holiday to the Phillipines, mails himself 2 keys of hash. Gets caught.
Wow. What a story.
The title: Brother One Cell by Cullen Thomas
Google the name and he has a website that talks a bit about the experience. The book came a year or so ago, but I just read it today and, well, it's pretty incredible, his story.
Anyway, just passing along the recommendation.. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| Kudos to him for being able to turn being a dumbass into a career. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:33 am Post subject: Re: Brother One Cell |
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| superacidjax wrote: |
This book is highly recommended. The whole dynamic about a foreigner in a Korean prison is outstandingly depicted.
Here's the nutshell: American, comes to Korea to teach, goes on holiday to the Phillipines, mails himself 2 keys of hash. Gets caught.
Wow. What a story.
The title: Brother One Cell by Cullen Thomas
Google the name and he has a website that talks a bit about the experience. The book came a year or so ago, but I just read it today and, well, it's pretty incredible, his story.
Anyway, just passing along the recommendation.. |
I heard he is writing his second book.
Here's the nutshell: Cullen Thomas mails superacidjax 2 keys of hash. Superacidjax gets caught. Superacidjax spends several years in a Korean prison. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| I bought this book off someone who was leaving awhile ago, haven't read it yet. I'll bump it up to the top of the list. |
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waywardwanderer
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| The subject matter is interesting, but it's not that well written. He over-writes to the point of nausea. Worth reading though. |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: Brother One Cell |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
| superacidjax wrote: |
This book is highly recommended. The whole dynamic about a foreigner in a Korean prison is outstandingly depicted.
Here's the nutshell: American, comes to Korea to teach, goes on holiday to the Phillipines, mails himself 2 keys of hash. Gets caught.
Wow. What a story.
The title: Brother One Cell by Cullen Thomas
Google the name and he has a website that talks a bit about the experience. The book came a year or so ago, but I just read it today and, well, it's pretty incredible, his story.
Anyway, just passing along the recommendation.. |
I heard he is writing his second book.
Here's the nutshell: Cullen Thomas mails superacidjax 2 keys of hash. Superacidjax gets caught. Superacidjax spends several years in a Korean prison. |
I thought he actually did mail it to himself, just he was trying to tell the police he didn't so he could get set free or get a lighter sentence.
Anyways he writes pretty well for a dumbass. I wish there were more books about recent life in Korea... just not necessarily taking place in prison.
What was he doing before he got busted? He was an English teacher on a tourist visa in Seoul, of course.  |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject: Re: Brother One Cell |
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| inthewild wrote: |
I thought he actually did mail it to himself, just he was trying to tell the police he didn't so he could get set free or get a lighter sentence.
Anyways he writes pretty well for a dumbass. I wish there were more books about recent life in Korea... just not necessarily taking place in prison.
What was he doing before he got busted? He was an English teacher on a tourist visa in Seoul, of course. |
He mailed it to himself, but tried to pretend he hadn't. It was different hand-writing (because he got his girlfriend to address the package) but they didn't buy it.
The most interesting part to me was that the first kg got through just fine and he and a friend sold it no problem. |
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ppcg4
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| The most interesting part to me was that the first kg got through just fine and he and a friend sold it no problem. |
And I can't get 3 grams of Spice Gold through customs..... |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:07 am Post subject: |
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I was a bit disappointed that they didn't put more emphasis on his actual time in a Korean prison...it was only about 10% of the show. Still it's kind of cool when I drive by the post office in Myeong-dong everyday and think, that's where the idiot got nabbed.
My favorite moment in the show was when he brought up the "beautiful" Korean expression, "into the tiger's cave" as if it's some mystical phrase...who knows, though. Maybe he honestly never heard "into the lion's den" before. |
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Whitey Otez
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: The suburbs of Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:57 am Post subject: |
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For some of the junk he decided to include, there were a couple of things he left out:
-Right at the beginning, he talked about how his broken fingers are all healed up. Throughout the whole book, I was waiting to read about how they were broken. Here's a spoiler: he never bothers to say. Why would he say they were broken then never say how?
-The most intriguing part of the book would have been how he rotated back into American society after his ordeal. Does he still do recreational drugs? Did he cover up his prison time in order to get a decent job? What was the hardest part of going home?
This book had a lot of potential, but after reading it, it failed to deliver much. A good editor would have helped him out a lot. |
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pocariboy73
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| I read it. It was Ok. About 7/10 |
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