The Sex Lives of Cannibals, (Paperback)

from Kristelh

This is a memoir by Troost and is very funny. His wife gets a job equatorial island, Kiribati, he goes along as he is unemployed and he feels he will fit in because the majority of island inhabitants are unemployed. This is funny but also a book that looks at life on an atoll, this is not paradis...

from BoundTogetherForGood

I enjoyed this book though it wasn't quite what I expected. It was fun and light reading and taught about a culture with whom I was not familiar. I just bought the sequel. Getting Stoned with Savages. His writing style is one I enjoy. The book follows Troost through two years of life on a South P...

from sriemann

Paradise is not always what it seems... but even the most bothersome situations faced in the equatorial Pacific turned into wittily told anecdotes. I enjoy travel writing, and have been meaning to read Troost for a while, and others recommendations to do so were well warranted. Will put his other...

from Capnrandm

Though this book has a WASPy start and a fizzle of a finish, the stories that make up it's core more than compensate. Years after the fact, THE SEX LIVES OF CANNIBALS still comes up regularly in conversation, a fantastic peak at two young Americans adapting to a world completely outside their com...

from Michael.Xolotl

Funny, interesting, and relaxing. Edit: forgot to mention, the chapter on the island's dogs is not funny, interesting, or relaxing; if, like me, you hate descriptions of mistreated animals, skip it. Also, the book's goodreads' synopsis is somewhat misleading; the book's author struggles without t...