Getting Stoned With Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
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With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost customary himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and communicable joy of discovery in a side-splittingly amusing account of life in the utmost reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, and a lack of beer on a daily basis, Maarten Troost was in no hasten to return to the South Pacific. But as time went on, he realized he felt remarkably out of place among the trappings of twenty-first-century America. When he establish himself holding down a job—one that might possibly lead to a career—he knew it was time for him and his wife, Sylvia, to repack their bags and set off for parts unknown.
Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious tale of Troost’s time on Vanuatu—a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to “eat the man.” Falling into one amusing mishap after another, Troost struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes and soon finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-discretionary lifestyle of the islanders. When Sylvia gets pregnant, they decamp for slightly-more-civilized Fiji, a fallen paradise where the local chiefs can be establish watching rugby in the house next door. And as they contend with new parenthood in a country rife with prostitutes and government coups, their son starts to take reasonably naturally to island living—in perfect contrast to his dad.
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The books that Mr. Troost wrote about the South Pacific say more about his foolishness and cultural insensitives, than the cultures he is struggling to potray. Nothing in these books describes the right South Pacific we know!
He is doing a fantastic job by telling us how foolish he is in poking fun of the cultures we hold dear to our hearts in a hope of earning a living.
But if theres a lesson one ought to learn from Mr. Troost novels, it is that the Pacific will permanently remain a mystery to Westerners!
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This guy is an idiot and does not know anything about Fiji, or its inhabitants. He is the predictable “hideous American” and it would be best if he stayed away from gorgeous islands such as Vanuatu. The people of Fiji are not as he describes them, and his juvenile excursion to the islands is a poor attempt to be Hunter S-like.
BTW – Kava does not make one hallucinate.
Vinaka-Vaka-Levu,
Signed: A real Island Boy (a right ‘Gimrit’ off the ship, Leonidas)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Since I’m really busy I admit to being picky about what I read. This book didn’t do it for me: after 2 weeks I’m only on page 45. The concept of a middle class man in his early 30’s going to learn himself in a 3rd world country might be cool, but it’s not different or new anymore. Nowadays there are many people who do what the leader did, or something similar it. I would feel terrible giving this book such a terrible review except that the leader seemed a small arrogant and I’m sure he’s made a lot of money off his “sex lives” “getting stoned” books. I will not end this book. I’m glad that I didn’t really spend money on it but rather establish it left behind in an airplane.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book’s jacket gives the impression that the leader made a radical choice to go to the South Pacific lacking a safety net just to experience a different lifestyle. Really, he had already had a book published on this very topic previously and surely had a book advance yet to be of time.
Although the book is fleeting, it is also frequently dull and full of dishonest statements from the leader implying that he prefers native life to life with Westerners. Naturally, after less than a year of life on the island he and his wife return to America.
The leader seems to find small of interest to do besides get high on Kava and he takes several trips to visit natives mainly just for writing material. The leader’s life seems rather dull and unpleasant and it shows in this book. I would advise skipping this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I read Troost first book, Sex Lives of the Cannibals, twice. I read Getting Stoned three times. I have read several of the user reviews and will add Amen, to what they write. This is not a predictable travel guide, more like a guide to living and putting up with the locals, who have no thought what a hot shower means to an American. But the book is reasonably fun to read. Again and again. In fact, I reflect I’ll place on the night table right now.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5