WARNING: If you like love stories, politically correct books, or stories with happy ends, do not touch this book. Instead, sprinkle it with holy water and watch how it turns to smoke.
However, if you like Gary Larson's "The Far Side", this book might please you. It is a masterpiece of subtile black humour, written with a virtuosic command of language.
If you have a sense of surrealism, you will enjoy the story about the office clerk whose Audi breaks down in the middle of the countryside. It is amazing what can happen to a customer of a mid-country garage.
I also like the story about the female biologist who falls in love with an educated chimpanzee, of course seen from her boy-friend's perspective.
Another nice piece is the one about the billionaire who collects rare beer cans and is hunting Montezuma Lite deep in the jungle of Yucatan. A wonderful play with stereotypes of Indiana Jones-type movies.
Or shall I prefer the sociological study on a handful people surviving a plane crash in the middle of a tropical jungle? (Have I written "sociological"? I could have written "culinary", too.)