The Worst Travel Guide to Cambodia

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Re: The Worst Travel Guide to Cambodia

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" burning money for your ancestors "
Hehe is Chinese culture.. :p
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Gonna know good and bad things in Cambodia? Interesting book!
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but why pay for something that he gives for free on his blog?

reading some of the blog i felt i had wasted my time as he is no writer

a newbie would get all the wrong ideas about Cambodia and think he can live there for next to nothing and exist on $1 meals
and street 51 is "the RED light" area

Much better books out there
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On St. 51 hookers:
Many do not really understand the benefits of condoms and birth control. Because of this, countless end up with illegitimate children with fathers from developed countries like England, USA, Germany and France who don’t care or sometimes don’t know about them.
I wonder where he gets this nonsense from? The blog is dreadful crap from a know-it-all backpacker.
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What's with the backpackers obsession about sex? Do people write about the Uk or Italy or Germany and seek out the palaces with sex for sale?
And st 51 is the red light area, what a fucking moron.
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On freelancing websites such as odesk and elance there are plenty of jobs daily looking for ghost writers even when the hired ones are completely clueless about the topic; then the employer just tweak it as minimal time as possible to the intended audience.

Controversy sells whether it is complete bullshit -- only a few know and many dont esp a country like Cambodia, so who cares...as long as it sells. Come to think about it, this author kind of inspired me.

I finished reading Alex Watts free ebook in less than a day; I like the author, honest in his writing. I kept on reading longing to hear more about the characters in Snooky...not much...or the Aussie dude in Saigon.... Whatever, people dont continuously follow Gordan Ramsey because of his cooking skills...it was the crazy stuff that made people hooked to.
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Re: The Worst Travel Guide to Cambodia

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Aww give that guy a break!

The title tells you its a bad guide, but it's the first of it's kind if very simplistic indeed. I hope he makes a lot of money selling it.

>In the meantime, i have had a lot of fun reading from this site which truly rates as the most hilarious, where the authors rather poor use of grammer, obsession with 'ice girlies', and philosophy has made the various topics that he comments on extremely interesting reading indeed!

Try this topic for starters!

http://www.cambodia-entertainment.com/c ... lphin.html
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I agree! Sounds like a very fitting title, and would be a fun read from his perspective.
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