Genre: Non-Fiction
Published by: Broadway Books / Random House
Pages: Hard Cover
Rating: 3 JAGS
Wordy! First recommendation is to have a pocket-size
dictionary available when you are about to jump into this book. I will admit, I
would like to pride myself on a large vocabulary, but even I made several
reference pauses to look up certain words in J. Maarten Troost’s Sex Lives of Cannibals.
This comical true story of Troost’s 2 year sabbatical on the
island nation of Kiribab in the South Pacific is entertaining in parts, and
predictable in others. After graduating with his degree and endless temp jobs, Troost
decides to join his girlfriend who was recently hired to be the director for
the Foundation for the Peoples of South Pacific-Kirbati Office, for an adventure
even he could have never imagined.
Expecting an island paradise of fruity drinks with umbrellas
and women clad in bikinis, the real life hard-ships of 3rd world
living shakes awake the 2 year life Troost hadn’t anticipated. From a brief tangle of sharks, lack of palatable
food options for a spoiled US citizen, and not to forget to mention smoking marijuana
with the local residents
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In short, The Sex Lives of Cannibals is an educated version of National Lampoons vacation
series. Would not waste more than second hand price, for a second hand read….yawn!
Lastly, if you are interested in reading a constant reminder of someone’s
global resume over and over again, this would be the read for you.
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