false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174403763m/392438.jpg 392438 3 In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style. The Damage Done is one man's story of an unthinkable nightmare. It is not Warren Fellows' plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt, but a story of endurance and survival and the abuse of human rights during the decade of a life wasted in leg irons. It is an essential read: hearbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down. 382025 1998 The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison total:102|5:19|4:46|3:28|2:6|1:3| 102 378 138 28 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 20:13:25 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 20:19:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 05 06:42:30 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 13:18:10 -0800 2009
There's no doubt that Warren endured very hard times, but the story telling was pretty poor. There was no development of prison-mate characters, just a constant stream of "one time a guy...", "...and then anothe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 06:38:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:40:16 -0700 2009
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i think it is important to read books like this to try to balance out the occasionally naive travel literature that you get exposed to when reading about small countries.

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Refreshingly, Warren Fellows doesn't ask for redemption or try to justify the drug smuggling that got him sentenced to life in a Thai prison.

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