This book is hilarious. It was recommended to Andrew by our friend Robin. After hearing him laugh out loud several times, I decided that I needed to read it too. The book is a non-fiction account, written by a neuroscientist who studies a troop of baboons in Africa. Robert, the neuroscientist, has an easily apparent love for the baboons. The baboons are mostly named after Old Testament characters. Robert has a funny perspective on their lives and on their very unique personalities. Much of the book focuses not only on the baboons, but on what is happening to him, living in Africa, as he is studying the baboons. Andrew and I were discussing what we liked about this book, and we decided that it had something to do with the way that the author writes about himself. Robert is frequently getting into predicaments and having hilarious things happen to him. But he doesn't try to make himself look better or like he always new what he was doing. He is brutally honest about how he got into many of his predicaments. And he had some great stories to tell.
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