Martin Troost’s life wasn’t going much of anywhere, so he lucked out when his girlfriend got a job in the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati, where he spent his time learning to surf, drinking with other expats, and trying to write a novel. He never succeeded – from the superficial depictions ...
1.5 starsI have thoroughly enjoyed every one of Troost's other books. Those books combined travel, humor and knowledge about numerous locations across the globe. However, Headhunters barely contained any of these and felt overall more like a recovering alcoholic's memoir. Needless to say I did not s...
I read this because my friends back in PA decided they wanted to give a book club a shot and I knew I'd be visiting the weekend that they wanted to hold their discussion. So here you have it: the first installment in the (Un)Official Chestnut Hill Gang Book Club. Maarten Troost and his girlfriend (w...
Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas) was an unknown place to me before I listened to this book. Just getting there was an adventure, with pigs on the runway and museum-quality airplanes. Once there, the culture shock hits on so many fronts.While the beginning of the book lagged a bit for me, starting off i...
Funny account of life in one of the remotest places on earth. The author and his girfriend go to live on Tawara, a tiny atoll which is part of the country of Kiribati. Kiribati, as he tells us, has the land mass of the Baltimore metro area, broken up in 33 pieces, and scatter across an expanse of oc...
The only thing this book did for me was to convince me to stay the heck out of the South Pacific. It's truly amazing that those people survive with their complete lack of hygiene. I thought the parts were the author was swimming in the ocean waters only to come ashore to people actually shitting in...
Read by Simon Vance.Having so much fun with this. Troost captures to a tee my first encounter in Beijing, from the live scorpions, the clack of bicycles, the traffic, the wall, Yellow Mao, to the cranes, Gobi gobs, Forbidden City etc etc - and he does so in such an amusing way. Many laugh out louds ...
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 ...
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