Getting Stoned with the Savages:A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
By J. Maarten Troost
This is one of the most hilarious books I have read / heard on tape. Actually, I bought and downloaded the book on tape to my Ipod for a road trip. I'm sure it's a great read too, but the comic timing and delivery of the reader is unbelievable. There were several times we had to pull the car over because we were laughing too hard to drive!
If you love the South Pacific - Vanuatu, Fiji, Tahiti.... and you love to laugh, buy this book / book on tape! Great for reading on your honeymoon - great for listening to on your IPOD on your flight to your honeymoon or any trip!
Getting Stoned with Savages tells the hilarious story 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 misadventure after another, Troost struggles against typhoons, earthquakes, and giant centipedes and soon finds himself swept up in the laid-back, clothing-optional lifestyle of the islanders. When Sylvia gets pregnant, they decamp for slightly-more-civilized Fiji, a fallen paradise where the local chiefs can be found 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 begins to take quite naturally to island living—in complete contrast to his dad.
