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Summary: Nice Story ? Keeps you Guessing
Review: Backpack is the story of a lost British girl named Tansy. After her mother dies and she meets her long lost brother she decides to go on a backpacking trip through Asia with her boyfriend. Of course the boyfriend dumps her before the trip and she decides to go without him (in hopes that he will join or be impressed). Basically she is a big city girl who isn't interested in the backpacker lifestyle but finds herself in Asia wishing she were anywhere else. Tansy does a lot of growing and learning while on her travels.Meanwhile murders start happing all over Asia and Tansy feels they are somehow connected to her. An interesting story with a loveable leading lady.
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Summary: Nice Story ¿ Keeps you Guessing
Review: Backpack is the story of a lost British girl named Tansy. After her mother dies and she meets her long lost brother she decides to go on a backpacking trip through Asia with her boyfriend. Of course the boyfriend dumps her before the trip and she decides to go without him (in hopes that he will join or be impressed). Basically she is a big city girl who isn't interested in the backpacker lifestyle but finds herself in Asia wishing she were anywhere else. Tansy does a lot of growing and learning while on her travels. Meanwhile murders start happing all over Asia and Tansy feels they are somehow connected to her. An interesting story with a loveable leading lady.
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Summary: slow start, but gets off the ground eventually
Review: I also hated Tansy when I started this book- I may have even skimmed to the end if not for my incredibly boring summer job. Now I'm glad I didn't skim it, because I really became absorbed in the story- Tansy changes for the better- and even before she changes, the self-depricating humor starts to grow on the reader. I liked that there was more to the story than the typical girl meets boy plot. And for those of you who like to travel, Backpack will make you want to just pick up and leave (and I don't just think that because of my incredbly boring job).
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I found this to be a highly interesting, engaging, and entertaining read. I actually love the standard "brit chick" novels b/c it helps me live vicariously through the characters and pretend I'm living in London... however, this book was much deeper than the standard and I really felt Tansy's pain in re: her relationship with her mother and her ability to overcome her very self-destructive lifestyle. Plus for someone that hasn't had the opportunity to visit Vietnam, Thailand or Nepal yet, the travel experiences she went through were great to read. I couldn't put it down! Please please please have Emily Barr write some more...
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Summary: A great read!
Review: I loved this book! It's part love story, part coming-of-age novel, part travelogue/cultural odyssey, and part murder mystery. All of these elements work seamlessly to create a story that avoids cliche and held my attention from beginning to end.
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Summary: A huge disappointment
Review: I picked up this book thinking it would be a fun sassy read but it turned out to be annoying and nearly unreadable. The main character is a whiny drug addicted twenty-something more interested in her designer clothes and where her next coke score is coming from than anything else. The first five chapters are mostly a rehash of her failed relationships (I wonder why, all she does is whine about everyone she knows!) after she wakes up in the hospital after overdosing and her decision to travel to Asia for a year. The Asia chapters seem like the author showing off how much (or how little, at times) she knows about SE Asia because she visited once. The story line and main character might be bearable if the writing didn't make this such a rough read. There is constant switching between past and present tense. The clever use of emails isn't really clever at all. I ended up skimming to the end.
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Summary: NO Bridget Jones
Review: I purchased this book with the impression that this would be a romantic comedy. After reading the first pages, I quickly realized that, in my opinion, I would certainly not qualify this as a comedy. The writing was heavy and I just did not care for it at all.
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Summary: Backache
Review: I Still havn't figured out how i've managed to read the entire book without skimming through a single page.
Tansy Harris, the so called hero of the book is a bitter, selfish and self absorbed young lady who doesn't seem to understand that not everything evolves around her.
Tansy's addiction to Coke is an extra reason to dislike her but has nothing to do with poor overall impression "Backpack" left on me.
The book, in my opinion, is very poorly written and fails in almost every aspect. Charcters, although not shallow , are simply boring, espacially Tansy who i couldn't care less about her spiritual and on-the-map progression and actually hoped she would be confronted by the murderer and save me from my boredom. the plot is moving so slow it's almost unbearable and Tansy's endless inner dillemas and self searching got on my nerves around page 90.
The most important aspect in which this book falls short is that it is written in such a way unable to draw readers in it the way good books are able to. This book is much easier put down than picked up.
Backpack does have a few pros that prvent it from being a total disaster. The e-mail chapters are a nice addition which enables the reader to see the plot (as dull as it is) from a different point of view and the ending is surprising which makes it easily the best part of the book but still does not make it worth reading.
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Summary: Really Lacking ......
Review: I was disappointed with "Backpack" by Emily Barr. I thought the premise sounded interesting and it might be a nice departure from the sickeningly "sweet" world of "CHICK-LIT" but, I was left hating the main character and not really caring about the plot. I'll confess --- I gave up before I was finished. Was hoping for more.
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Summary: pathetic
Review: If you like reading about bratty over-privileged girls then this book is for you. The ending was a complete cop-out. It disguised the fact that the author Emily Barr was suffering from burn-out. I won't put the spoiler in this review; let's just say that it was an all-too convenient way to wrap things up.
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