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That Bear Ate My Pants! Life and NearDeath in an Ecuadorian Animal Refuge eBook Tony James Slater

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That Bear Ate My Pants! Life and NearDeath in an Ecuadorian Animal Refuge eBook Tony James Slater

I'm truly glad I found these books. They are a fun escape from a rocky patch in my life. (Geeze, at least I hope it's just a patch.....?) A manic depressive husband who decided to go on an epic mid life crisis after our neighbor had a heart attack at 44. A flat out depressed 15 year old daughter who cuts herself for reasons I can't fathom but according to her psychiatrist & therapist I need to be "understanding" ( understanding about something I can't fathom, there's a contradiction in there I think) A 13 yr old son who so recently thought the sun & moon revolved around my awesomeness but now slinks around me in a desperate attempt to avoid embarrassing contact at all cost and whose idols are grown men who live with their parents believing they are making a good living by uploading videos on YouTube. "Sigh" Everyone told me teenagers would be tough.
The Bear ate my pants is only the second book I've read (I'm doing it a little backwards since I chanced across Shave My Spider first) but I have really really (really) enjoyed them both and am looking forward to reading the next one. In my world where attempts at cheerful, light-heartedness are greeted with an annoyed desire to shoo me away, they have been funny and interesting in this surreal sort of way that makes you believe that YOU could travel to cool, fascinating, remote places and not just survive but have a plethora of kick ass experiences to cherish. I mean Hell, if Tony can do it without getting dead then ....... = D.
I highly recommend the books.
Thanks Tony, keep writing books & blogging forever, amen


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That Bear Ate My Pants! Life and NearDeath in an Ecuadorian Animal Refuge eBook Tony James Slater Reviews

With a title like "That Bear Ate My Pants," how could I pass this one up? It didn't hurt that it was billed as a humor book, or that it was about a man working on a wildlife reserve -- I love animals, and having grown up around them I can attest that there can be plenty of hilarity in dealing with them on a regular basis. The fact that this was a free e-book at the time I downloaded it didn't exactly hurt either...

As a lot of reviewers have pointed out already -- yes, this book has quite a bit of cursing. But if you can get past the swear words, it's a clever and hilarious account of one man's efforts to make a difference.

Tony is an aspiring actor who, in an effort to find himself, flies from his native London to faraway Ecuador to volunteer at the Santa Martha wildlife rehabilitation center. There he finds said center is half-farm, half-reserve, a ramshackle collection of buildings and (badly) handbuilt pens housing everything from monkeys to ocelots to a rambunctious bear to the world's fattest puma. Tony butts heads with both fellow volunteers (the friendly and earnest but annoyingly vegetarian-minded Toby, the spoiled rich girl Layla, the feisty Irish sisters Emer and Marie, and others) and the reserve's permanent workers (including stern owner Johnny and machete-happy Jimmy), gets bitten and scratched at least once by every resident animal, adopts the world's stupidest dog, romances a native woman despite their language barrier, and otherwise finds himself hopelessly out of his element in a faraway land. But over the course of his stay he'll find himself developing strong bonds with the animals and his fellow workers... and learn a few things about himself in the process.

As I've stated before, Tony swears quite a bit in the writing of this book. I know this is a deal-breaker for many readers, and I usually don't like books where every other word is the F-word (one of the reasons I hated "Julie and Julia"), but here the writing was entertaining enough -- and Tony's voice engaging enough -- that I was willing to overlook the profanity. Still, other potential readers might appreciate a word of warning.

Beyond that, this book was both hilarious and oddly touching. Every animal in the book seems to want a piece of Tony, and yet he finds himself growing attached to them all, whether it's the caiman that tries to take a piece of his finger to the bear who loves to pull the plug on her artificial pond just to watch the workers refill it over and over again. He touches on the problems and heartbreaks of trying to rehabilitate an animal to return it to the wild, but also the rewards of all that hard work. And he has the good sense to find humor in even the worst situations, and find a laugh at his own expense. In that respect, his work reminds me of a somewhat more irreverent Bill Bryson, another travel author whose work I enjoy.

I found myself giggling too many times to count reading this book, and I'd gladly read it again. And I know I'll be reading the other two books by this author. Highly recommended if you're a Bill Bryson fan or just love animals.
The author was a twenty something year old native of England with no clear direction in life when he decided to volunteer in Ecuador at an animal rescue. He writes of his experiences with the animals and people he meets in a well written, easy to read fashion, most of which I found humorous but not laugh out loud funny.

I thought the author was kind of a goofy, fun-loving jerk, until the part with the injured caiman. That event really humanized him in my eyes and I think that everyone who has lost a beloved (or not so beloved) pet can understand the emotions experienced.

I would like to have read more of his experiences upon his return to England, (in what ways did he grow besides becoming semi-fluent in Spanish?) but I understand that he continues the story in another two books.
I've read reviews that are highly critical of the language (F and S bombs) and also some sex. Frankly, there weren't that many bombs and the sex was very much in context and written about with great humor and fun.

The author is an incredible storyteller! I felt as if I were there with him and appreciated his turn of phrase and view on delightfully outrageous situations.

There were a few chapters I sped through due to some graphic medical and other squeamish (to me) situations. But still wanted to rate this 5 stars.

Do wish the author would find a better editor. His poor grammar and incorrect tense usage is a a bit off-putting at times, but still, a great story teller. So, I gave the book 6 stars, but had to downgrade by one star for less than stellar grammatical and tense use.

Thank you for sharing your adventures, TJS, and allowing us to laugh (and cry) along with you!
I'm truly glad I found these books. They are a fun escape from a rocky patch in my life. (Geeze, at least I hope it's just a patch.....?) A manic depressive husband who decided to go on an epic mid life crisis after our neighbor had a heart attack at 44. A flat out depressed 15 year old daughter who cuts herself for reasons I can't fathom but according to her psychiatrist & therapist I need to be "understanding" ( understanding about something I can't fathom, there's a contradiction in there I think) A 13 yr old son who so recently thought the sun & moon revolved around my awesomeness but now slinks around me in a desperate attempt to avoid embarrassing contact at all cost and whose idols are grown men who live with their parents believing they are making a good living by uploading videos on YouTube. "Sigh" Everyone told me teenagers would be tough.
The Bear ate my pants is only the second book I've read (I'm doing it a little backwards since I chanced across Shave My Spider first) but I have really really (really) enjoyed them both and am looking forward to reading the next one. In my world where attempts at cheerful, light-heartedness are greeted with an annoyed desire to shoo me away, they have been funny and interesting in this surreal sort of way that makes you believe that YOU could travel to cool, fascinating, remote places and not just survive but have a plethora of kick ass experiences to cherish. I mean Hell, if Tony can do it without getting dead then ....... = D.
I highly recommend the books.
Thanks Tony, keep writing books & blogging forever, amen