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Title: Incisive, insightful and amusing
Review: For the best reason to read this book, refer to "mlbasquiat"'s review and you will be rewarded by seeing just how incisive the book can be. Nothing triggers a response like that as well as truth. The thinly disguised narrative of that review speaks of the reverse racism peddled by a few with massive inferiority complexes, but is not representative of the many fine people who struggle daily to understand each other in Micronesia and the Philippine Islands. There are moments in the book which both flatter America and defame it, so if you have such biases you may miss the balance.Yes "Biggest Elvis" is written from Kluge's perspective, but that is of course what the book is about: His struggle to understand the people around him. It did not impress me as a bible of Pacific culture any more than Kluge impressed me as a philanthropist of infinite wisdom. But it did strike me as a random slice of "in your face" reality with a few powerful messages... a solid read.
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