The Sex Lives of Cannibals, J. Maarten Troost
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, J. Maarten Troost
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Author: J. Maarten Troost

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel

Synopsis

At age twentysix, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flipflops and move to a remote South Pacific island. He should have known better. Falling into one misadventure after another, Troost tells the laughoutloud true story of a harrowing and hilarious twoyear odyssey in the worst place on earth.

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 Gretchen on February 09, 2008

Having lived in the exact same equatorial Pacific nation at the exact same time as the author, I feel an unprecedented connection to this book. I loved it and was a little bit bothered by it at the same time. Mostly I cracked up laughing the whole time, as if it was a book of inside jokes between th......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 03, 2023

Absolutely enthralling! At the advanced age of 26, author Troost was struggling with the angst of an as yet undefined career path that seemed on a fast track to nowhere. So when his lovely wife, Sylvia, was given the opportunity to take over the administration of an NGO located on Kiribati, an almost......more

Goodreads review by Brian on February 12, 2016

I have mixed feelings about "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" because I alternated between many opinions about this text as I was reading it. It had been on my "too read" list for years, and now having read it I am not sure it deserved its spot. The first 50 pages or so of this book are irritating beyond......more

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