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Yu_Bum_suk
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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| Do you still remember Shawn Matthews (eslcafe username: shawnr) two books, Island of Fantasy and Korea Life Blog .... absolutely fantastic books |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:55 am Post subject: |
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"Dollies"?
It's all right, will trade a copy of "Brother One Cell" if anyone has a hard copy they want to get rid of. Different writing style, similar writing ability! Any takers?  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Draz wrote: |
"Dollies"?
It's all right, will trade a copy of "Brother One Cell" if anyone has a hard copy they want to get rid of. Different writing style, similar writing ability! Any takers? |
It must be a very esoteric, regional expat slang term. At any rate, 'books' like this just make my students look so angelic. |
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Illysook
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe I'll save that link for awhile. I think that it will be funny after I've been home for a few months, but right now it hits too close to reality. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Practically all the book is available online through that link.
I wasn't impressed and, pardon the intrusion, I wrote my take on it earlier. I would just post the link, but I don't think it would fit thorugh the swear filter. The guy sounds like a complete dumb ass. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
Practically all the book is available online through that link.
I wasn't impressed and, pardon the intrusion, I wrote my take on it earlier. I would just post the link, but I don't think it would fit thorugh the swear filter. The guy sounds like a complete dumb ass. |
I'll have to read through that thread.
I got page 75 before the free sample ended. This book actually struck me a lot like Verisimilitude by Harry that Aussie-Greek guy. If I wasn't an EFL teacher in Asia, it would have been, as the author might but it, a complete abortion. But unfortunately it's all too plausible, and there's little to blame foreigners like him from feeling the way they do. I strongly suspect that the two characters Paul and Billy are the two sides of the author's personality. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
Practically all the book is available online through that link.
I wasn't impressed and, pardon the intrusion, I wrote my take on it earlier. I would just post the link, but I don't think it would fit thorugh the swear filter. The guy sounds like a complete dumb ass. |
Even doing it this way, the swear filter gets it. |
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Smee
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:16 am Post subject: |
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It is fiction so that means it cannot be taken too literaly. That being said it is also garbage as it is badly written, vulgar and offers nothing of value to the reader. It is typed diharea of low order.
I think the review by smee was pretty much on target and some very salient points about Foreign teachers were made. |
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Scouse Mouse
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Location: Cloud #9
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Brian's original link gets through just fine... It's only when you quote it that problems occur  |
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polonius
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
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| After having read 1/5 of what smee wrote, including the quoted words from the book, this guy is a complete tool. It is no wonder that many Koreans have a bad image of foreigners when there are knuckle dragging, book eating, single celled amoebas like this teaching in Korea. |
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PatrickGHBusan
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| Well said polonius.... |
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whoami
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| polonius wrote: |
| After having read 1/5 of what smee wrote, including the quoted words from the book, this guy is a complete tool. It is no wonder that many Koreans have a bad image of foreigners when there are knuckle dragging, book eating, single celled amoebas like this teaching in Korea. |
Obviously he is, but then there are a lot of hagwons who deserve him, or worse. He fit right in at the one where I worked. |
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