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Hmmm, there was not much sex or cannibals in this book, but despite that, it was hilarious. Troost, books, and was only lukewarm about this, however, was aa very good book.

Troost and his girlfriend Sylvia to decide that they need to get away from everything after his graduation. They apply for jobs in everything and finally arrive in a small island in the Pacific, Tarawa, which is a part of the Republic of Kiribati. Here it isin essence, a "home" can be found here and spend the day surfing, cleaning, worrying about clean water and try to find some kind of food. More worrying is that with the wealth of the people and not a reliable waste management, the environment is highly toxic and even eating the local fish is dangerous. There is certainly an adventure to survive on the island.

Troost and his girlfriend of two years on this island, where little by little accustomed toThe living conditions (although not the Macarena, which has played continuously by all). Although some are disappointed with the cannibalism and presented an interesting sex life on the island. But it is by the people, but the wild dogs that roam the area. They manage to survive their time, but they can be radically changed and the last chapter deals with how to take his life in America and their attempts to buy clothing store offers food in a place seeking the maximumdecisions that require money and re-regulation for most things.

Troost is a very funny writer. While his work is not very polished, has a great flow, and has injected a huge dose of humor in it. By his description, it is easy, the island where he lives with his words and see. You can use the beaches, the trees, the blinding hot sun. But to do this in the same way you can see the dirt, mangy animals and other elements of the disaster that the island is more dangerousPlace to live. Troost is a great narrator and his voice is good to tell the story. My only complaint would be that he is very tearful. Yes, he told all that funny, but overall there is a sense of self-pity in the book. Its almost as if something is not fantastic and it was a bad thing for everyone.

It has a decent job of describing the people of the island. They are in their thoughts, but all love stories varied eating wellFood and beer. On an 'island there is not much to sing and dance like a music and just doing a great hobby here. They also "local legends" of your love and Troost tell stories about people and space. He, in turn, gives us a review of some of these stories.

This book was definitely one of the best I've read by him. I'll probably continue to read his books and I'm looking forward to some of the other places he visited and wrote about.

L 'Sex lives of cannibals
Copyright 2004
272 pages

Review by M. Reynolds in 2010

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific Feature

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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific Overview

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 of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the Earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish, and worst of all, no television or coffee. And that’s just the first day.

Sunburned, emaciated, and stinging with sea lice, Troost spends the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options. He contends with a cast of bizarre local characters, including “Half-Dead Fred” and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who’s never written a poem in his life), and eventually settles into the ebb and flow of island life, just before his return to the culture shock of civilization.

With the rollicking wit of Bill Bryson, the brilliant travel exposition of Paul Theroux, and a hipster edge that is entirely Troost’s own, The Sex Lives of Cannibals is the ultimate vicarious adventure. Readers may never long to set foot on Tarawa, but they’ll want to travel with Troost time and time again.

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