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Alex Sheshunoff
Burnt out and facing a quarter-life crisis, Alex Sheshunoff gathered the one hundred books he was most embarrassed not to have read and moved to a small island in the Pacific called Yap. While out there, he'd meet a girl, build a house, and, of course, write his own book about the experience, a... show more

Burnt out and facing a quarter-life crisis, Alex Sheshunoff gathered the one hundred books he was most embarrassed not to have read and moved to a small island in the Pacific called Yap. While out there, he'd meet a girl, build a house, and, of course, write his own book about the experience, a vaguely-humorous memoir with a very long title about the experience: A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything So You Too Can: Move to the South Pacific, 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.) Miraculously, Penguin Random House will release in hardcover on Sept. 1st, 2015.Alex's other writing has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Slate.com, Marketplace, The Anchorage Daily News and other very prestigious media outlets. Before deciding to call himself a writer, Alex snuck through Yale and started and ran an Internet company in New York called E-The People - a nonpartisan precursor to Moveon.org but with a pun in its name.Because of his unique last name, Alex is often asked if he's somehow related to Ian Shenanigan Sheshunoff, the first-place winner of the Diaper Derby Crawling Contest at the 2008 Alaska State Fair. They are indeed related. Ian is his son. Today, Alex and his wife, Sarah, live in Ojai, California with Ian and his equally talented younger brother, Andrew Commissioner Sheshunoff.
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debbiekrenzer
debbiekrenzer rated it 10 years ago
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 10 years ago
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
Memories From Books on Booklikes rated it 10 years ago
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 10 years ago
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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