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It is a thoughtful delving into how an anthropologist might find things out, and how conclusions and comparisons might be viewed. Fen's specialty is religious totems and has a secret plan to steal one of the tribes most sacred object. When he achieves... Read More
Nell stone and her husband fen are married and working together in new guinea. Fen's mind is on a flute he saw with an earlier group he and nell were studying. Andrew bankston is a british anthropologist who is lonely, floundering in his career and is... Read More
Cons
This is the least compelling, dearth of geographical description, weak dialog, book i have read in awhile. Love triangle is predictable and not inspiring.
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Quality
Author lily king is brilliant with the tension she creates through the characters and the jungle setting
As someone who lived in papua new guineas jungle as a missionary i was especially impressed by the details king included that d... Read More
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Strange how a ship was our doing and now our undoing
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Not so fictionalized i beieve except for the ending
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I picked up this book knowing nothing but that it was a novel loosely based on events in the life of margaret mead
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Need to step back and remember that this is and does not ever pretend to be anything but fiction
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From page two i had to flip back to page one to see if i was accurately remembering what i’d read on page one
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Seemed to have a blind spot for fen’s truest nature despite their astute perceptions they had of each other and everyone else around them and despite many of the the things fen had done that made it clear
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Some parts of the book made me want to scream
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Not sure how i missed this when it originally published
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Neii was a better anthropologist and his ego couldnt take it
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