The Sex Lives of Cannibals

By J. Maarten Troost,

Book cover of The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Book description

At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Sex Lives of Cannibals as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Don’t let the title turn you off. This book is a hilarious account of taking life to the edge of sanity. Like many of the others, this book takes the author (and his girlfriend) to a remote location in a sort of personal quest for self-discovery.

Troost uses humor and sarcasm with admirable deftness in describing life on a small island near the equator. His book brought me to my knees with laughter in several spots as he described the remote foreign culture he was thrust into, by choice of all things. 

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