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| Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
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Author: J. Maarten Troost
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 2006-06-13
ISBN-10: 0767921992
ISBN-13: 9780767921992
List Price: $12.95
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With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, and a lack of beer on a daily basis, Maarten Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific. But as time went on, he realized he felt remarkably out of place among the trappings of twenty-first-century America. When he found himself holding down a job—one that might possibly lead to a career—he knew it was time for him and his wife, Sylvia, to repack their bags and set off for parts unknown.
Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious story of Troost’s time on Vanuatu—a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to “eat the man.” Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes and soon finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-optional lifestyle of the islanders. When Sylvia gets pregnant, they decamp for slightly-more-civilized Fiji, a fallen paradise where the local chiefs can be found watching rugby in the house next door. And as they contend with new parenthood in a country rife with prostitutes and government coups, their son begins to take quite naturally to island living—in complete contrast to his dad.
As great as his first book. Read and enjoy!
| Customer Rating: | I read The Sex Lives of Cannibals, JMT's first book about Kiribati, years ago on a Palm Handheld. This second book, which I read from a conventional paperback is as good as the first.
I enjoyed both stories immensely. It is books such as these, which recount personal immersion into local cultures, that give us what television and tourist-travel books cannot.
I think that many a reader has learned more about these remote parts of Oceana from Mr. Troost than from any other source.
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Very funny and I can personally verify his experiences
| Customer Rating: | This is my favorite book by Maarten Troost. Perhaps this is because our family lived in both Vanuatu and Fiji (only a couple years before Maarten and his family), and so I can relate to almost every one of his adventures.
Although other reviewers did not like this book as well as his first, I feel that some of the humorous episodes are even better written than in the first book. In fact, his description of the effects of Kava is the best I have ever seen.
Highly recommended! |
A great, fun book!
| Customer Rating: | | Maarten Troost is a wonderfully talented author. He writes so colorfully, interestingly and humorously. It was a real treat to read this book. I also read his other book, "The Sex Lives of Cannibals," and I loved that book, too! |
One of my top 5 Favorite Books of All Time!
| Customer Rating: | | J. Maarten Troost is the best author! I love his work. He writes how I think. Witty, intellectually sarcastic and insightful! |
Pretty Good, but
| Customer Rating: | | Troost comes across as a likeable guy, but his second travel book isn't quite as entertaining as his first. "Getting Stoned" suffers from too much exposition about the history of politics and culture in Vanuatu and Fiji. Important stuff, yes, but not what I want from Troost. He is at his best when he is in the middle of absurdly funny situations, such as when he drives a borrowed vehicle off the side of the road in the middle of nowhere or battles a giant centipede. I want more narrative from him and less exposition. Still, this book is pretty good; it's worth the read. I want to give it an extra half star. |
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