Sara's review
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
Sara's review
rating:
bookshelves: adventure-, audiobooks, humorous, nonfiction
recommended for: fans of travel narrative, anyone interested in a lighthearted take on a vastly different culture
status: Read in January, 2008
rating:
bookshelves: adventure-, audiobooks, humorous, nonfiction
recommended for: fans of travel narrative, anyone interested in a lighthearted take on a vastly different culture
status: Read in January, 2008
This book is written in a definite tone - a sarcastic, deprecating tone. It's a great accompaniment to the weird antics and observations available on the remote South Pacific island of Tarawa. The author, J. Maarten Troost, enjoys inflating his prose with overstatement, understatement and sweeping generalizations. It was a very funny listen, and I'm sure it's an equally satisfying read.
The audiobook features a British reader, which lends the writing a very suitable edge of dry British inflection. It's also very refreshing to read a book full of foeign names and places and not wonder about the correct pronounciation. The chapter titles are long, over-explanatory and absolutely whet the listener's appetite for what is to come.
I learned more than I ever thought I would about life on a Pacific atoll from this book, all of it delivered with Western point of view and the author's sardonic commentary. The culture shock and frustrating island isolation Troost experiences made me...more
The audiobook features a British reader, which lends the writing a very suitable edge of dry British inflection. It's also very refreshing to read a book full of foeign names and places and not wonder about the correct pronounciation. The chapter titles are long, over-explanatory and absolutely whet the listener's appetite for what is to come.
I learned more than I ever thought I would about life on a Pacific atoll from this book, all of it delivered with Western point of view and the author's sardonic commentary. The culture shock and frustrating island isolation Troost experiences made me...more
