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A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything - Alex Sheshunoff
A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything
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So You Too Can:   - Move to a South Pacific Island - Wear a Loincloth - Read a Hundred Books - Diaper a Baby Monkey - Build a Bungalow   And Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love! *   * Individual results may vary.The true story of how a quarter-life crisis led to adventure, freedom, and love on a... show more
So You Too Can:   - Move to a South Pacific Island - Wear a Loincloth - Read a Hundred Books - Diaper a Baby Monkey - Build a Bungalow   And Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love! *   * Individual results may vary.The true story of how a quarter-life crisis led to adventure, freedom, and love on a tiny island in the Pacific. From the author of a lot of emails and several Facebook posts comes A Beginner’s Guide to Paradise, a laugh-out-loud, true story that will answer your most pressing escape-from-it-all questions, including: 1. How much, per pound, should you expect to pay a priest to fly you to the outer islands of Yap? 2. Classic slumber party stumper: If you could have just one movie on a remote Pacific island, what would it definitely not be? 3. How do you blend fruity drinks without a blender? 4. Is a free, one-hour class from Home Depot on “Flowerbox Construction” sufficient training to build a house?   From Robinson Crusoe to Survivor, Gilligan’s Island to The Beach, people have fantasized about living on a remote tropical island. But when facing a quarter-life crisis, plucky desk slave Alex Sheshunoff actually did it. While out in Paradise, he learned a lot. About how to make big choices and big changes. About the less-than-idyllic parts of paradise. About tying a loincloth without exposing the tender bits. Now, Alex shares his incredible story and pretty-hard-won wisdom in a book that will surprise you, make you laugh, take you to such unforgettable islands as Yap and Pig, and perhaps inspire your own move to an island with only two letters in its name. Answers: 1) $1.14 2) Gas Attack Training Made Simple 3) Crimp a fork in half and insert middle into power drill 4) No.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780451475862 (0451475860)
ASIN: 0451475860
Publisher: NAL
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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debbiekrenzer
debbiekrenzer rated it
This book was absolutely hilarious at the beginning and then still funny towards the end, but I guess I was just wondering to myself who does that? Just ups and quits his job and goes to find Paradise. It was a very entertaining, human interest book and held my attention until the end. When I read t...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it
4.5 A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything
He’d done it, something so many individuals wish they could do but never attempt. It’s such a drastic step to take. Alex had stepped off the grid, he’d quit his job, leased out his apartment and was now going to live on a small island in the Pacific. A health issue caused Alex to take a hold of hi...
Memories From Books on Booklikes
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3.0 A Beginner's Guide to Paradise
A Beginner's Guide to Paradise by Alex Sheshunoff is the off-the-wall, humorous documentation of his adventure into life on a small island in the Pacific. This slow-paced, light-hearted book will have you laughing and yet wondering in awe for he did what so many only dream of doing – leaving everyth...
Randal
Randal rated it
4.5 Paradise Realized
A Beginner's Guide to Paradise is about a young internet entrepreneur who becomes disillusioned with his life and chucks it all to search for a more meaningful life. He packs up about a hundred of the books he felt he should have read in college, and heads off for the South Pacific. After several un...
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