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Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in South-East Asia - Tamara Sheward

 

Description: ISBN 184024058X / Author: Tamara Sheward / Genre: Travel / The girls make a delightful comic duo. Sheward`s prose is superb.

Newest Review: ... comes across Wazza – a very drunk Australian who lives in Cambodia and has succumbed to his feelings of home-sickness and ... more

 ... popped back to good-old Aus. He tells Tamara – through a slur of beer fumes – that if she wants a place with hardly any foreigners she should try South East Asia. And Tamara, being as shallow as she is, needs no better advice than that of a drunk in a bar. And so the girls are off to give S.E. Asia their best shot. Tamara admits she thought the Khmer Rouge was a cosmetic and Laos was something you got in your hair at school but you might suppose she’d have read a guidebook or two before setting off. Even a teensy bit of...more

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Crowned Review Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in South-East Asia - Tamara Sheward: I always say travel broadens the mind - I admit it, I was wr ... (1776 words)
by koshkha - written on 03.05.07 (Very useful, 193 readings)
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Life’s full of mysteries. Like why anyone was surprised that premium rate TV phone-ins were rigged. Or how Michael Winner has had so many glamorous girlfriends. But my big mystery today is how did Tamara Sheward ever con a publisher into accepting her manuscript? I love travel but I have mixed feelings about travel writing. It’s a bit like football – you can love watching it but you rarely find much satisfaction in one of those ghost-written autobiographies. Travel writing ranges from the intellectual and sanctimonious to the trite and plain silly; Bad Karma is firmly in the latter camp. I’m so glad I only paid 50p for it on a market stall – I’d hate to think ...

 

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