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A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean: A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace it's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen (Travelers' Tales) |  | Author: Gary Buslik
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy Used: $4.88
as of 3/11/2010 13:16 PST details
You Save: $10.07 (67%)
Seller: Blue_Cloud_Books
Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 81207
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1932361588
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.9
EAN: 9781932361582
ASIN: 1932361588
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
"If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool." And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of tropical adventure. Each chapter of this often hilarious and sometimes poignant travelogue recounts another island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, hospitals that remove wrong organs, insects as big and dangerous as stealth bombers, ticket agents that put him on hold for hours, mysteriously calculated currency exchanges, over-proofed rum, livestock, singing Rastafarians, garbage-bin sex, peanut-crazed children, Idi Amin, flesh-eating monkeys, dentists, cricket, steel drum bands, and the French. Fortunately, even when making fun of his West Indian hosts, the curmudgeonly author's essential good nature and devotion to his wife twinkle through, and in the end his stubborn geocentricity gives way to a heartfelt appreciation of his island hosts.
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 Very Funny Exaggerated Semi Non-fiction March 8, 2010
Clifford Garstang (Staunton, Virginia USA)
With the arrogance of Paul Theroux and the comic abrasiveness of David Sedaris, this collection of "travelers' tales" is both crude and offensive. On the other hand, except where there are dips into near-racism, these are mostly very funny extended jokes (sometimes at the expense of the author's wife, but more often the locals) about an American's adventures in the Caribbean.
Travel writing, I've always felt, is enjoyable because it informs. It may also transport the reader to distant places, familiar or unfamiliar. I'm not sure I want to visit Gary Buslik's Caribbean, though, and I can't say that anything I learned in the book equips me to do so. But then this isn't your ordinary travel writing. This is just for yucks. Lots and lots of yucks.
 Not really funny. January 31, 2010
Jennifer Richards (Stafford, VA)
It wasn't really funny, just a cynical and introverted guy who happens to travel to the Caribbean with his wife.
You'll enjoy this loopy travel journey! December 28, 2009
Helen Farrow
"A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean" is an upside down, inside out, stream of conscious style, loopy travel journey that starts with a chapter titled "The Time I Accidentally Urinated on Idi Amin." Here's a glimpse of how Gary Buslik sees the world in a later chapter, titled "My Date with Princess Di": "These are hard to get to, these tiny, charming places: up coiling, washed out tracks, through listing villages, past straggling goats and clapboard rum shops clinging to hillocks, around herds of wild donkeys, over bone-jarring ghauts--those perilous open gutters washing mountain water to sea. But it is the price to touch a cloud." The world through Buslik's eyes is at turns wildly irreverent and breathtakingly beautiful. Enjoy the journey!
Not Funny December 21, 2009
Leonard J. Byron (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book boring and poorly written. It was not in the least funny. Don't waste your money or your time.
truly funny book November 8, 2009
Jessica Voigts (Michigan)
When I first opened the book, the VERY FIRST chapter made me laugh (The Time I Accidentally Urinated on Idi Amin). It gets even funnier from there - Gary explores different cultures, ethics, philosophy, race, religion, and more - all the while making the reader laugh, with his wry sense of humor. I've read this book twice now, and keep it handy for reading aloud with good friends. Why do I read it aloud now? People kept asking me what was so funny. Yep. It's that good.
We were lucky enough to interview Gary on our site (WanderingEducators) about his book - I feel fortunate to know the backstory!
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