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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15028491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give this book another half star, I would.  It's an entertaining &amp; thoughtful look at the life of an American on the Pacific island of Kiribati.<br/><br/>I guess I am at a point in my life where I can say with a certain confidence that I will never visit Kiribati myself.  So, in the way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17984545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[False Advertisement. Defined (loosely) as misrepresenting a product in such a fashion as to entice the buyer to make a purchase &quot;sight unseen&quot;. Alternatively, this work stands in nicely.<br/><br/>J. Marten Troost goes out to the middle of &quot;No Where&quot;, and there he finds somethin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6938217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps I'll rewrite this review, but for now,... this book is an easy read.  It's about a couple, independent in their ideals and beliefs, who move to Kiribati in the Pacific for a 2 year stint for international development efforts.  The guy (author) goes through wonderful details of the people, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/280872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[J. Maarten Troost has already turned into one of my favorite authors although this is the first I've read of his work. His writing is intelligently witty, dry, and sarcastic. Some chapters of this book are slower than others, but are necessary for the reader to fully understand why the I-Kiribati pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38545558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty leisurely commentary on capitalism, consumerism, and romance.  Maybe i read a little too much into it.  Overall pretty entertaining, but definitely not life altering.  The author did a great job making his points subtly, and i know that is his style of writing, but since he created such a g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39188783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a cute and funny book about an American who lives on the remote island of Tarawa for two years.  It was interesting to get an in depth look at a culture on the other side of the world.  The author keeps you interested the whole time with fast-paced, snappy humor.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Normally, I can't stand travel books.  The pretentiousness of the author always makes me want to vomit.  But this book, of a young man (and his hard-working, pragmatic girlfriend), living on a painfully remote island in the Pacific is pure bliss. Much like Mike Rowe of &quot;Dirty Jobs,&quot; the au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1707249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is slow at first, it's best read after you've purchased it on sale, and it's starred at you from your bookshelf for months, and you have no choice but to read it because of the guilt you feel for having spent the money. <br/><br/>That said. I did like it, it not only opens your mind up t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24972245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read.  Read this a couple of years ago and I still remember it.  I really enjoyed it.  The title is totally misleading because it doesn't really have to do with the sex lives of cannibals.  It's actually more of a travel book about a man who moves...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42649910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To Mr.Troost,<br/>I learned that you are a liar and a disgraceful man, and my opinion about you lay on the beaches of Tarawa. You wrote about my culture, my people and my island I dearly love so you can be famous and rich!!! The title is a scheme and a trick to get people's attention so they can bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52995643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Sex Lives of Cannibals</em> is one of the best books I've read in years and the only one that I can recall that I wanted to buy for or recommend to friends. Normally I don't read much non-fiction and have never read a travel memoir, but I picked Troost's book up after an Amazon Vine Reviewer compared...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52402162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the kind of book that as I was reading, and laughing out loud, I just had to share with everyone around me. I read passages to my husband, told bits and pieces to my kids and just plain enjoyed the book start to finish. It was a quick and easy read - but beneath the surface - and without bei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52194836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Troost writes a remarkably accurate account of his life on the Pacific atoll Tarwa, in the nation of Kiribati.  It resonated so much with my own experience, and I'm glad to have read it after my return.  I think if I read it while I was on Jaluit, I wouldn't fully appreciate his stories.  If you sub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50462874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exotic getaway to a tropical island sounds good. But there's only one road. Good, you say. Then you find out the road is overrun with mangy packs of dogs begging for food or fighting for the opportunity to mount the local bitch. Also, there's no running water. But, you say, we are in the tropics ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41031784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give it 3.5 stars, really.  Although it did make me actually laugh out loud several times--quite rare for a book--it just... it didn't really compel me to keep reading.  Like others have mentioned, he puts out an air of superiority.  There wasn't really any narrative thread that held it together...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34255228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very entertaining and informative (i assume, as I have no point of reference other than the author's) take on life off the beaten paths, and a look at why said paths are not very worn...as one who often daydreams of dropping everything and starting over in some isolated world outpost, I was drawn to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44337224">more...</a>]]></body>
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