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...makes a fair job of conveying the sheer tedium of prison life, in the sense that reading his book feels like a jail sentence. After describing the already well-documented horrors of Klong Prem Central Prison (rats, roaches, squat toilets), Botts spends his time smoking heroin and giving his fellow convicts amusing nicknames. "The Brit looked like a gravedigger with his wide stained teeth and sinister smile," he writes. "We named him the Gravedigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailhouse Schlock | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...According to a front-cover quote from David McMillan, the author of Escape - another Klong Prem memoir, released in 2007 by the same publisher - Botts "opens his real-life experiences like a knife opening a cadaver." In fact, Botts' account is unharrowing. His description of a prison shack in what he calls "the garden," a flyblown island of mud and compacted human waste where the cons passed their days, reminded me of a scuzzy bungalow I once stayed in on Koh Samui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailhouse Schlock | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...problem with Nightmare in Bangkok, and books like it, is that it is hard to sympathize with the narrator. Botts, who is eventually transferred to a U.S. prison and granted parole after spending less than five years at Klong Prem, is not a lovable rogue but a thief and heroin trafficker, and his time behind bars prompts little self-reflection. Seeming to sense this, he closes the book with a lame attempt to recast his dismal life as a parable about overcoming addiction, with the suggestion that he should never have been jailed. I agree with him that criminalizing drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailhouse Schlock | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

Christmas in Paris. OpenSkies is offering flat-bed business-class seats from New York to Paris for $1,100 one-way, and New York to Amsterdam for $1,050 one-way. Prem+ class seats are going for $600 one-way to Paris and $550 one-way to Amsterdam; you'll get 140 degrees of recline and 52 inches of legroom. Fares are available until Nov. 21 for travel through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Teeny, Tiny NYC Hotel Rooms for $99 | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

Euro Special. Open Skies, a new subsidiary of British Airways, flies smaller 64-seat Boeing 757s, from New York to Paris. There are only two classes: Biz, with a flat bed, and Prem+, a step up from economy, with reclining seats and 52 inches of legroom. On Oct. 15, the carrier will begin service between New York and Amsterdam; the first 1,000 customers flying Prem+ will pay just $499 roundtrip. The airline will also sell 1,000 Prem+ seats from NYC to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Italy Promises Star Ratings for Hotels | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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