In pursuit of something to read

Made another trip to raid the second hand bookstalls of the Khao San Road today. Got four books for 600B, or about nine quid, including a copy of Norman Lewis's travel book on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the early 1950's. Say what you like about backpacker land, it is a good source of books. For new books there are some very good bookshops in town, but the rate I go through fiction means it would be a very expensive undertaking. I was a bit disappointed by the British Council lending library - not many books, and mainly abbreviated versions of english classics for people learning English. The shortened versions of Trollope appeal even less than the full versions. AUA has apparently got a library - will have a look when I am next down there for another language class.

So in the meantime, there's the KS Rd. It's on the other side of the city, which until now has meant a journey to the end of the Skytrain line, and then a boat. Not anymore though! Today I found the elusive no 59 bus and did the whole trip in under 20 mins. Had to run to catch it mind, it doesn't hang about and you need to ring the bell and get off sharpish, otherwise it's blasting on up the road in a cloud of filthy exhaust.