Post #266113 by khan_tiki_mon on Sun, Nov 12, 2006 9:26 AM

I too, like some of the other replies here, have been collecting Tiki for years without ever having read the "Book of Tiki". I have ordered it from Amazon and it has been months with no book. I do have Duke Carter's "Tiki Quest". I read a lot and I have been reading my whole life. I have read "Kon Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl (a couple of times). I read "The Happy Isles of Oceania" by Paul Theroux. I have read "Return to Paradise" by James A. Michener. I took a date to see the movie "Hurricane: Forbidden Paradise" when it was released in the 1970s and I liked it. I could go on and on with the things I've read and seen that have brought me to where I am today in my Tiki collection and in my appreciation of things Tiki. We have all had different journeys to get to the same place and when we're here, because we've all had those different journeys, we see the same things differently. Consequently, we're never really in the same place are we? That's diversity and it's great. Celebrate difference! I shouldn't comment, I suppose, because I haven't read "The Book of Tiki", but I will anyways. I look forward to reading the BOT and I'm sure I'm going to get a lot out of it. However I'm wary as I've heard it described as the 'Tiki bible' and I can tell you right now I don't have a bible. I'm a free thinker and proud of it. And, I can change my mind. I'm open to new ideas. We don't all have to have read the same book and to be on the same page in order to share ideas. That's why we share ideas because we're not all on the same page. That's my two cents on the subject.