false 4 158 55 true 5637418 read 4 true 3924869 currently-reading 99 true 3924868 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68647047 to: Bad Karma: Confessions of a Reckless Traveller in Southeast Asia (Paperback) by Tamara Sheward
So far I am a bit perturbed about this book, but I am going to force myself to read it. I love travel books about women who travel alone, so I picked up this book. Many of the things that the author writes about are irritating me to the point that I want to put the book down. First of all, I think that it is very irresponsible as a woman traveling alone to just spontaneously end up in a foreign city in Southeast Asia without any advanced preparation. I am all for spontaneous travel, but we have to be realistic when traveling alone as women. The author often speaks so far of Southeast Asia as if it is a disgusting place with a bunch of "town idiots". At one point her friend and her enter a train full of soldiers, drink beer and "entertain" the soldiers with yelling out sexual phrases from a guidebook. On another occasion, her friend curses out someone who didn't bring her water immediately, not even taking into consideration that they are in a foreign country and the person might not speak English. It irritates me to the n-th degree when privileged travelers go to other country and impose their culture and language on others-this is exactly so far what I am thinking about the author. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and hope that she has some sort of awakening about herself and traveling.

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