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When I posted the first part of this paragraph a short while ago, and I complained about how petty the author had been already in this book, I hadn‘t even finished reading the whole paragraph. And he proves my point! He‘s petty yet again! A period after the word cathedral would have been appropriate. Then he belittles his literary compatriots back home. If this bad attitude doesn‘t end quickly I may bail. #foodandljt #Samoa @Catsandbooks

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The author is hiking in the woods of New Zealand. This would be a lovely quote but for the author‘s pettiness up to this point. He has brutalized the Māori and New Zealanders.

For example: “Others evolved into enormous and complacent specimens, like the spoiled and overfed children I had seen in Auckland…” & “the most terrible aspect … was that the New Zealanders themselves did not seem to know what was happening to them in their decline”

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I‘m getting a little head start on #foodandlit with my first book for #Samoa

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Cortg This book would be right up my alley! I paddled across the Chesapeake Bay yesterday between the Bay Bridge(s) and back yesterday. One of my bucket lists things. 11h
Texreader @Cortg 🤯 That‘s impressive!!! 6h
Cortg @Texreader Thanks! I placed a library hold on this book 😀 5h
Texreader @Cortg I‘m not too thrilled with it yet. He seems to dislike the people of New Zealand quite a bit and doesn‘t have any qualms about saying so. Hopefully he becomes enlightened or improves his embittered state of mind. 3h
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keithmalek

A joke:

How do you know when there's a bodhran player at your front door?

The knocking gets faster and faster.

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keithmalek

And there's a woman climbing over chairs, taking pictures of every conceivable object at every conceivable angle...so she's obviously American.

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keithmalek

He's upset a few along the way too, as does anyone willing to put their head above the fray.

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keithmalek

Once I started seeing all those deathtraps out there, I couldn't shake my curiosity. I wanted to jump on and circumnavigate the planet on that unseen artery of mass transit. I wanted to know what it was like on the ferries that killed people daily, the buses that plunged off cliffs, the airplanes that crashed. I wanted to travel around the world as most of the people in the world did, putting their lives at risk every time they took off on...

keithmalek (continued)...overcrowded and poorly maintained conveyances because that was all they could afford or there were no other options. 1mo
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The ending felt very unsatisfying. The whole book I felt like the ending was going to involve divorce, but the ending didn‘t even involve a proper ending or closure. This book is funny in the way of a Troost book, but it had a much darker tone because, ultimately, this is his addiction and recovery memoir. It‘s actually heartbreaking in some ways, and it‘s hard to put my finger on exactly why.
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GingerAntics I honestly wish there was one more Troost book after this one (this is the last he published), just to have that happy, goofy, inquisitive feeling of the first two books in this trilogy, and to know how things turned out. #JMaartenTroost #HeadhunstersOnMyDoorstep #addiction #recovery #alcoholism #audiobook 6mo
GingerAntics @5feet.of.fury yes, very different tone to the first two. I have mixed feelings here. The ending was almost just “well, the deadline is in five minutes and I have to attach it to the email first.” Did that happen in his little one bedroom or efficiency apartment or at home with his wife and children? Who knows? We may never know. I really hope it‘s the latter. 6mo
kspenmoll Wonderful review! 6mo
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5feet.of.fury @GingerAntics yeah he seems to have fallen off the map entirely after this (&there was@supposed to be another book) The opening of this book is amazing. His wife was such a trooper too (hiking on remote islands heavily pregnant, etc) so you just know he was putting her through it. 6mo
GingerAntics @5feet.of.fury I love how she said if he ever drank again she‘d make him a eunuch. 🤣😂🤣 that makes me think she probably didn‘t divorce him… but then he ran away from home. I don‘t know. Last updated bio I saw say he lived with his wife and 2 sons in California. 6mo
Bookwormjillk I wish there was another book too. I enjoyed these. 6mo
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I‘m not sure if this is funny or tragic. He‘s returned to Kiribati without his wife and children (apparently they have 2 sons now), having seemingly run away from home after going to rehab for alcoholism (at least he‘s not drinking), and he‘s waxing poetic about how things are just how they were when they left. It‘s funny in its way, but it‘s also heartbreaking. I seriously feel like this is a harbinger of divorce ahead.

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