Comments on: ‘Brother One Cell’ Review http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/ Korea... in Blog Format Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:50:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jcasa http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-182877 jcasa Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:43:31 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-182877 caught this worthless a-hole on television the other day. extremely boring(long winded). if anyone can please explain the ending of the program to me i would love it. why were they celebrating his release that way (waving the american flag etc...)? he did break the law, right? he was by no no more a prisoner of war or innocent. from what i gathered from the program he got off easy compared to what he could have received and still seemed insulted by his treatment. He said something like "i was overcome by a feeling of disregard. like the feeling you have when you are in someone elses home. the costs are not as high" or something like that. they probably should have made him serve the full time. on top of all the bullshit coming out of his mouth,the man has the personality of a bread crumb. caught this worthless a-hole on television the other day. extremely boring(long winded). if anyone can please explain the ending of the program to me i would love it. why were they celebrating his release that way (waving the american flag etc…)? he did break the law, right? he was by no no more a prisoner of war or innocent. from what i gathered from the program he got off easy compared to what he could have received and still seemed insulted by his treatment. He said something like “i was overcome by a feeling of disregard. like the feeling you have when you are in someone elses home. the costs are not as high” or something like that. they probably should have made him serve the full time. on top of all the bullshit coming out of his mouth,the man has the personality of a bread crumb.

]]> By: dda http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-163530 dda Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:22:22 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-163530 <blockquote>This book is a story of Mr. Cullen's experiences in South Korea after he was caught mailing himself a block of hashish</blockquote>You. Can. Stop. Reading. Here. The rest is predictable...

This book is a story of Mr. Cullen’s experiences in South Korea after he was caught mailing himself a block of hashish

You. Can. Stop. Reading. Here. The rest is predictable…

]]> By: Tell22 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-163527 Tell22 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:01:08 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-163527 I am amazed at the lack of humanity some of you righteous folk display (dogbertt, Cat, EFL and others). I believe everyone is responsible for what they create. Your writing on this site leaves nothing for the reader save your anger. Where it truly comes from is not apparent. Why do you want to create lasting imprints of your anger here on this website? Especially when A. I can guarantee you did not read the book (you could have even read the GQ PDF I found on his website for free—that way you are not helping the guy make money from his blunder), so why do you think you can comment on what it is about? and B. your hostility towards someone who openly discusses the fact that they made a mistake points to a world with no redemption and no forgiveness. Is that what you want? Why are you creating that with your angry words? If you are not interested in this work then go find something you enjoy and comment positively on it. Do you really think that your voice and opinion is so valuable to the rest of us? Do you feel we need to be influenced by how you think because you are right? As I said, I am truly amazed. I am amazed at the lack of humanity some of you righteous folk display (dogbertt, Cat, EFL and others). I believe everyone is responsible for what they create. Your writing on this site leaves nothing for the reader save your anger. Where it truly comes from is not apparent. Why do you want to create lasting imprints of your anger here on this website? Especially when A. I can guarantee you did not read the book (you could have even read the GQ PDF I found on his website for free—that way you are not helping the guy make money from his blunder), so why do you think you can comment on what it is about? and B. your hostility towards someone who openly discusses the fact that they made a mistake points to a world with no redemption and no forgiveness. Is that what you want? Why are you creating that with your angry words? If you are not interested in this work then go find something you enjoy and comment positively on it. Do you really think that your voice and opinion is so valuable to the rest of us? Do you feel we need to be influenced by how you think because you are right? As I said, I am truly amazed.

]]> By: Uri Onara http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75976 Uri Onara Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:46:39 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75976 If you want to read a more worthwhile account of day after day spent in a Korean prison, let me instead recommend Suh Sung's autobiography which was translated into English in 2001 under the title "Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in a South Korean Gulag" (Japanese title from 1994: Gokuchuu 19-nen). Suh was a Zainichi Korean who arrived in the ROK from Japan to enter graduate school, only to soon be arrested and accused of communist sympathies, then tortured so brutally that after a few days he set himself on fire. Against his wishes, he survived (horribly disfigured) to serve out his long sentence. Needless to say, upon his release, he returned to Japan. Then again, if anyone has not yet read how the North treats Zainichi, let me recommed "The Aquariums of Pyongyang" first. If you want to read a more worthwhile account of day after day spent in a Korean prison, let me instead recommend Suh Sung’s autobiography which was translated into English in 2001 under the title “Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in a South Korean Gulag” (Japanese title from 1994: Gokuchuu 19-nen). Suh was a Zainichi Korean who arrived in the ROK from Japan to enter graduate school, only to soon be arrested and accused of communist sympathies, then tortured so brutally that after a few days he set himself on fire. Against his wishes, he survived (horribly disfigured) to serve out his long sentence. Needless to say, upon his release, he returned to Japan. Then again, if anyone has not yet read how the North treats Zainichi, let me recommed “The Aquariums of Pyongyang” first.

]]> By: elvislovechild http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75645 elvislovechild Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:58:33 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75645 The name's from a Vancouver punk band. The name’s from a Vancouver punk band.

]]> By: MrMao http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75636 MrMao Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:16:58 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75636 Elvis love child? That rings a bell from back in the day. Where are you from? Elvis love child? That rings a bell from back in the day. Where are you from?

]]> By: elvislovechild http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75600 elvislovechild Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:51:09 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75600 What a terrible waste of perfectly good hashish. What a terrible waste of perfectly good hashish.

]]> By: snow http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75546 snow Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:40:22 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75546 "but honestly speaking, who cares about what this goof has to say? He mailed himself a brick of hashish." Thank you, Mr. Carr. This guy deserves no sympathy for his extreme stupidity and for the reviewer to equate his experiences with Solzhenitsyn's is little short of ludicrous. “but honestly speaking, who cares about what this goof has to say? He mailed himself a brick of hashish.”

Thank you, Mr. Carr. This guy deserves no sympathy for his extreme stupidity and for the reviewer to equate his experiences with Solzhenitsyn’s is little short of ludicrous.

]]> By: R. Elgin http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75544 R. Elgin Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:21:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75544 Careful Dogbertt, someone may steal your idea and make a musical out of it. I can see the name of it already, in lights . . . Careful Dogbertt, someone may steal your idea and make a musical out of it. I can see the name of it already, in lights . . .

]]> By: gbnhj http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75540 gbnhj Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:44:47 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/03/28/brother-one-cell-review/#comment-75540 <i>Thanks, I will. I’m planning on writing a book about that someday. I expect you to buy a copy.</i> LOL :) Thanks, I will. I’m planning on writing a book about that someday. I expect you to buy a copy.

LOL :)

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