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Thanks for your good review and comments my friend. I will return to Amsterdam some day but right now Iam on with other things. There is I suspect more in my memory banks but I think I did a good job of recalling what I did. Since finishing my book things have come to mind but I feel I cant go back and change or edit anything as the job is/was finished and one must draw a line under it somewhere....37,000 words aint a bad effort

You got it spot on as for much of it I was taking the piss out of myself as much as others. But having said that you would not believe how much flak I have had from people who simply "didn't get"my particular sense of humour.....you obviously did

Hey Mr. Crocket, is this still available for review?

It is...email me at montyw111@hotmail.co.uk and I can send it .

MR Crocket wrote:Thanks for your good review and comments my friend. I will return to Amsterdam some day but right now Iam on with other things. There is I suspect more in my memory banks but I think I did a good job of recalling what I did. Since finishing my book things have come to mind but I feel I cant go back and change or edit anything as the job is/was finished and one must draw a line under it somewhere....37,000 words aint a bad effort

You got it spot on as for much of it I was taking the piss out of myself as much as others. But having said that you would not believe how much flak I have had from people who simply "didn't get"my particular sense of humour.....you obviously did

It must have been a great way to sit back and reflect on the whole Amsterdam experience.

37,000 words is a great effort. I had a go at a book myself a few years back and it's only when you sit to write, you realise that it's not that easy. I meant I would have like more as I enjoyed reading it and could have read more.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"

I like that last bit..so true.
The effort required to write and put together the book on a personal level was massive. Certainly not something I'm used to but I knew from my first adult visit that there was a book within me. It was just a case of sitting down and churning it out. This I did in January over 21 days. The final 37,000 words were the end result of changing and amending perhaps three times that figure until I got it where I wanted it. I sat back when I had actually published it and it was "out there" (which is quite involved in itself) and I was mentally exhausted with the sheer effort. But I felt cleansed and lifted from what was almost a religious experience. ( Salvia Divinorum kicking in now).

I thank all the people that have taken the time and trouble to read it and give a review. There has only been one bloke that didn't dig it and to be honest I think he looked on it as some sort of quazi official guidebook.

It is a good work, Sonny

MR Crocket wrote:It is...email me at montyw111@hotmail.co.uk and I can send it .

email sent.

To those people who have read my book on Amsterdam and have not yet left a review.............now is the time as Iam needing a shit and Iam right out of bog roll and just want to know if its worth tearing up and wiping my arse on it?

finished reading the book a few days ago now and must say what a well written n well remembered account of some good times had in Amsterdam. im not really one to read a book but I just wanted to know what mr crocket got up to next. a must read by any stoner who got an up and coming trip to Amsterdam to get you in the mood even more then you already are

Thanks for those kind words my friend.Iam chuffed you enjoyed the book and got its "point"...which you obviously did as you liked it.

Highly enjoyable read - got through it all in one sitting and loved every minute.
Some lovely anecdotes, it's well written and obviously researched.

I got the book delivered from amazon through the week, just finished. Great effort, good read. couldn't put it down at times.

Ahh so you were the one sale last month? ....glad you enjoyed it mate

Yeee, that would have been me ! Can do this whole e-reading thing.

A fine effort and it saves me writing one. Lots of laughs along the way.
My 'hard' copy is just the job for passing around the lads and is getting a good airing and great reports, being a Yorkshireman means I'm too tight to buy everybody one of their own.
Hope that the 'smack' of a latex glove doesn't send you into hot sweats
Cheers fella
RTnB