Getting Stoned with Savages (Audio)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781433240980 (143324098X)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Funny,
Comedy,
Travelogue,
Biography Memoir
3.5 Stars
Much better than the author's The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, which featured neither cannibals nor sex lives. Troost indeed gets stoned (on kava), though perhaps one might suggest "indigenes" rather than "savages." This is a slicker narrative than Cannibals, and not as ...
While not as good as the author's previous book (The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific) still, an amusing look at island life. Audio read by Simon Vance.
Who would think a book about moving to a tropical island with enormous poisonous stinging caterpillars and enormous poisonous snakes and sharks in the water and even real cannibals would be amusing? Troost must be a very accepting fellow because he's done it not once but twice. Both times he has man...
What a fun introduction to life in the remote South Pacific. Not totally sure it makes me actually want to go to Vanuatu and Fiji, but loved reading about Troost's adventures living in both. I'm a little sad he and his wife are now living in the US for awhile, but maybe he can make California life a...
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