The Mango Tree Cafe', Loi Kroh Road

by Alan Solomon
Taryn Simpson

ISBN: 978-1-4303-2522-2
Publisher: Lulu.com
Rights Owner: Taryn Simpson
Copyright: © 2007 Taryn Simpson & Alan Solomon Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
Edition: Third Edition
  • Paperback book $24.50

Printed: 286 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

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Imagine owning a restaurant near the jungles of Thailand that sits upon the most legendary mystical road in the world.   Legend states that whomever walks upon Loi Kroh Road will be forever changed or shall never be seen or heard from again.  In fact, the English translation of "Loi Kroh Road" is "Wash Your Bad Luck Away".   Larry, the main character, is seductively lured to this world famous street to purchase this restaurant.   The restaurant serves as a place where he observes world travelers such as himself as well as locals who discover their fate upon this historic road.   He is on a journey to discover his mission in life as he is guided by a ghostly figure that appeared to him as a child.  On his adventures, he comes face to face with his greatest fear, his lingering questions of mortality and his soul's lonely reflection

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It is Brilliant!
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26 Sep 2007
I have finished reading the Mango Tree Cafe Loi Kroh Road. Anyone who reads this book will love it, It is brilliant!

Josh
I hope you win the book of the year prize!!!
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26 Sep 2007
Hi Alan, Taryn
I have just finished reading the mango tree cafe, well done it is a great book and I hope that you win the book of the year prize!

Ted Osborne
The Characters leapt out at me...
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26 Sep 2007
I received your novel The Mango Tree Cafe, Loi Kroh Road, I thought I would glance at before getting into it as I am a regular to Chiangmai and know the Mae Rim region as well. I wish to tell you that my glance at the novel ended some 4 hours later when I finally got to the back cover I am going to re-read it, something I have never done with any novel before in my life. An easy read, a really very good yarn. The characters leapt out at me and somewhere inside me is Larry. Thanks to you and Taryn Simpson for such a good read.

Chris Collins
UK
This Writer has hooked me and reeled me in!
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26 Sep 2007
Your novel is great, it is a really good read. There is huge 'black humor' content which I am sure many readers will enjoy, also lots of devilment when one reads about what many of the characters do and get up to. I am sure you chuckled to yourself when writing the novel thinking 'how many out there will take this too seriously' yet you must have known the love and tender emotion would capture the reader throughout the story. Well you got me going, I thought about it and said to myself, 'this writer has hooked me and reeled me in' as here I was suddenly identifying myself with many of characters!.

Well done! and congratulations to you and Taryn for delivering to my mailbox a good yarn. Your next novel?

Regards

Bob
The Cover Haunted Me!
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26 Sep 2007
Thank you for the Mango Tree Cafe, Loi Kroh Road. I purchased it because when I was searching Amazon the cover haunted me! I started reading the novel when I picked it up and I was seated in my car, well I had to put it down so I could drive home! I am about to take a bus to a resort for the weekend and I should finish your book on the way down I am thoroughly enjoying it and I'm not a big reader.

Thanks and best wishes

Josh
The Mango Tree Cafe, Loi Kroh Road
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12 Aug 2007 (updated 17 Aug 2007)
Having read Taryn Simpson's and Alan Solomon's book, "The Mango Tree Cafe"; Loi Kroh Road" I was anxious to interview them for my program. Lately it's been rare that I've picked up a book and not been able to put it down. "The Mango Tree Cafe" is just such a book. Set in Thailand it tells the story of Larry and the colorful characters he encounters on Loi Kroh Rd. I feel this story will HAVE to be made into a film for those whose imaginations don't do the book justice. It's a "must read" for those who love adventure and discovering new places while sitting comfortably in an easy chair accompanied by a warm cup of tea.

Revvell
http://podcast.thebookcrawler.com/

http://podcast.thebookcrawler.com/2007/08/15/revvell-interviews-taryn-simpson.aspx or: http://tinyurl.com/3y5usj.

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