The HipForums Book Club

Awesome! Now I know others are like me, with a waiting list to wade through.

Great suggestions all!

Sometimes I wish I read faster, but I like to absorb the words and savor them, not rush by.

 

I get most of my books at yard sales, flea markets, and used book stores unless I'm looking for a particular author.

 

Well summertime is over, back to reading more indoors...I suppose.

Has anyone read "The Sex Lives of Cannibals?" It's hilarious and has no cannibals...



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—all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is “La Macarena.” He and his stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of 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).

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost has delivered one of the most original, rip-roaringly funny travelogues in years—one that will leave you thankful for staples of American civilization such as coffee, regular showers, and tabloid news, and that will provide the ultimate vicarious adventure. - Amazon review

 

Took a break from How The Mind Works

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to re read The Caves of Steel.

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Now back to the mind!

 

It is great to take a break and have a diversion...I HIGHLY recommend that for all!

 

We tried to do that but this place is filled with independent souls!

We can not all agree on just ONE book to read, so we offer reports instead

Not like a traditional book club... but here we are! Anything to get people reading instead of watching TV is my goal!

 

I am bad, I must get on here with some reports!

 

I will report on my latest book as soon as it is finished, probably this weekend.

For philosophy, I also have not read much of it but enjoyed this as a starter... I found it in a rental condo when I first arrived in Mexico... I left a sci-fi novel in it's place and kept this one.



I enjoyed reading this page recently...

 

I would prefer to be a Switzerland type neutral country... and avoid the unnecessary expense and mindset of the 'war' type people.

I should have read this before creating HipForums.