Catherine C. (c-squared) reviewed on 8/29/2011 + 181 more book reviews

I identify with Troost's wanderlust, although his choice of location is much more adventurous than mine. It's hilarious to read about his adventures with primitive living conditions, natural disasters, and revolutions, but I don't think I'd be laughing so much living through some of them.

"Getting Stoned with Savages" is the story of the adventures he was living while writing "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" about his previous adventures. The titles of his books and the chapter titles alone make this worth reading. For example, "Chapter 5, in which the author ponders cannibalism and discovers that he just doesn't get it--not at all, cannot get past the icky factor--and so, left to his own devices by his beguiling wife, he decides to seek enlightenment on the island of Malekula, where until recently, within his own lifetime even, they lunched on people." The chapters themselves are even better.

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