#378
Title: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Author: J. Maarten Troost
Year: 2004
Publisher: Broadway Books
Country: Kiribati (place holder)
288 pages
Kiribati.
A placeholder, I hope.
No sex, no cannibals, but Troost is certainly adrift. While his girlfriend does work, which I'd actually like to read about, Troost hangs around, surfs, makes minor repairs, doesn't write a novel, misses beer when the shipment doesn't come, complains more than admires, and makes pronouncements about the people of Kiribati. Every once in a while he hits it just right, but his attempts to be worldly or arch mostly fall far short of the goal. One hope Troost's style and focus have matured in subsequent books. One hopes his girlfriend writes a book one of these days.
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