Getting Stoned with Savages, J. Maarten Troost
Getting Stoned with Savages, J. Maarten Troost
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Getting Stoned with Savages
A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

Author: J. Maarten Troost

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel

Synopsis

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, J. 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 hilarious account of life in the farthest reaches of the world.

About J. Maarten Troost

J. Maarten Troost’s essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, and the Prague Post. After two years in the Pacific, he was hired as a consultant by the World Bank. He spent several years in Fiji then relocated to the United States and now lives with his family in Monterey, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kressel on October 05, 2020

I knew this was the book for me from the very first page. The author self-deprecatingly calls himself "an escapist," and goes on to describe his mind-numbing office job. Since I'm stuck in a boring job myself, it felt all too familiar when he reiterated the wisdom of the world: "How else do you expe......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on September 01, 2017

Overall not as funny as the author thinks or wanted it to be, but it had its moments. A little blatant on the torment of the writing process. Still, a look into a different world I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. But I don't need to come back for more.......more

Goodreads review by Israel on May 03, 2017

This book will teach me to never again buy a book because it has the word 'stoned' in the title. What a self-indulgent piece of crap...don't waste your time like I did.........more

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