This book contains so many pleasurable aspects, it's hard to focus on just one. Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Sexcapades, utter hilarity and an eclectic mix of corrupt characters make for a wildly entertaining read. Not to mention the Author is extremely good at making you feel familiarized with the...
Very good book, exciting reading, especially toward the end. Wahoo's mom is in China on a temporary work assignment and he and his dad are baching it at their home in the Florida swamps. Dad is an animal wrangler, someone who raises and handles dangerous animals for the movie industry and other...
So, I'm giving this a somewhat reluctant 4 stars. This is a collection of Hiaasen's columns from The Miami Herald. The positive - columns are well-written and humorous while starkly true and cutting. The reluctance comes from the fact that many of the columns chosen are repetitive, and the fact t...
Other than "Team Rodent" I had never read a Hiaasen novel until this one. I had always heard good things and had listened to him compared to many of my favorite authors. Last night I read Basket Case (actually I finished it... I started it yesterday). Now that I have finally read a Hiaasen novel,...
I always am a little disconcerted by Carl Hiaasen books because he confounds me. I never know where he is going with his story. The tone of his books in particular leave me wondering for the first 50 or so pages: is this supposed to be funny? A satire? A detective genre? Serious and sad? A thril...
ISBN/ISSN 1402561938 :ISBN/ISSN C2342 Recorded BooksEditorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyWriting like an Edward Abbey of South Florida, Hiaasen ( Skin Tight ) sets his reluctant journalist hero after a morally corrupt real estate developer planning to build an 18-hole golf course on North...
I haven't read any Carl Hiaasen in about ten years. It's worth saying that based on his first 5 books, his investigative reporting and the fact that he once appeared on IN SEARCH OF alongside Leonard Frickin' Nimoy, I regard Hiaasen as a genius to be spoken of in hallowed tones. I will now procee...
FlushtIn this novel the main character, Noah, is in the bad situation of having his dad in jail. His dad is in jail because he sunk the Coral Queen, a gambling boat, because the boat was dumping it’s sewage into the basin. His dad retaliated very badly and sunk it. Thus being why he’s in jail.t S...
As he pushed past the screen door, Decker was amazed by what he saw: books. Every wall had raw pine shelves to the ceiling, and every shelf was lined with books. The east wall was for classic fiction: Poe, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Jack London, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, even Boris Pasternak...
Carl Hiaasen's STRIP TEASE is one of my favorite novels ever...part crime story, part political thriller, and most importantly part pure, shameless fun! It's a romp of epic proportions featuring characters big and small, heroic and villainous or just plain insane, with a comic edge that would be...
Read by Ed AsnerSix Cassettes, 9 hoursContains: Tourist SeasonStormy WeatherStrip TeaseThis collection contains three classic Hiaasen titles. The set is 40% off the individual retail price of the audiobook.Tourist SeasonThe only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Mi...
Before you spend $9 on this book you need to know that it's less than 100 pages. This is not so much a book but a critical essay. Many Disney lovers have obviously read and reviewed this book and written scathing reviews, you will notice that most of these reviewers live far away from the Disney ...
Summer Reads '13 continues with fun & guns in the sun. Because nothing says summer quite like a white supremacist getting high off pepper spray after being stranded in the Florida Keys.I picked this up after reading Adam Gopnik's article in the New Yorker about the rise of Florida crime fiction: ...
Okay, so I know that I am lame. I picked this book out based solely on the fact that I discovered that it was on Dr. Shephard's shelf. However, I saw it also came highly recommended. So I thought I'd check it out.Plot:Charles Perrone, a crooked marine biologist who drives a Hummer and doesn't rec...
Hiaasen is a much beloved and highly successful Florida writer famous for skewering the stupidity and absurdities of South Florida. So I was quite surprised when this collection of his newspaper columns bored the hell out of me. This was possibly my first ever exposure to Hiassen's writing; I m...
Carl Hiaasen has carved out a good career for himself as a writer of off-beat comedy crime thrillers set in Florida, peopled by eco-conscious good guys, sleazy real estate moguls and cretinous bad guys. From novel to novel another piece of the Sunshine State's landscape comes under threat from ex...
Lucky YouGrange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his r...
Breeze Albury was basically an honest man until the machinations of the Machine (the Cubans) and a group of Colombians toss him into a high stakes game. When nearly all his trap lines are cut while his bills mount, Breeze takes a side job delivering a load of pot. He smells a set-up just a litt...
I was in kind of a rut with books, not really liking much that I read. This was especially true with audiobooks, where I really didn't like many of them that I have listened to recently. So I decided to go back to a modern classic, a book that I loved many years ago, Thomas Perry's "Metzger's Dog...
Contains "Tourist Season", in which reporters, cops, politicians and a hungry crocodile, move around the Everglades. In "Double Whammy", investigator R.J. Decker is hired to investigate cheating in Florida while "Skin Tight", takes readers into the world of plastic surgery.
She was sharp behind the wheel, the best Yancy had ever seen. He told the E.R. nurses he’d fallen on a rake. If he’d given the truth, the police would have been called, and a report would have landed on the desk of Sonny Summers, who didn’t want Yancy near the Conch Train case, the Buck Nance cas...
It seemed like a hundred years ago that Dana Matherson had tried to strangle him inside the janitor’s closet, but it had happened only that afternoon. “Thanks. Now we’re even,” Beatrice Leep said. “Maybe,” said Roy. They were waiting in the emergency room of the Coconut Cove Medical Center, which...
He liked his job. The speed was just right, leaving him plenty of energy at night for cruising the clubs, where he dealt Ecstasy, roofies and bootleg Cialis. Somehow the money was always gone by dawn, so Vincent was grateful for his gig at the motel. He was slouched in front of his laptop, downlo...
We stood on the Road 20 bridge gazing down at the brown water, swollen by hard summer rains. Lush trees lined the banks, and a pair of ospreys coasted back and forth searching for mullets.“Mom says we’ve got three days and then she’s calling the cops.”“Ha! Plenty of time,” the governor said.A lar...
dragged himself out of bed and stumbled to the front door."How'd you get here so fast?" he asked Millicent Winship."Chartered a jet plane. Now open the door."With fake cheer, Duane Scrod Sr. welcomed his mother-in-law into the house. She almost knocked him down as she whisked past. There was not ...
The engine was dead, but the prop was still twirling when Mick Stranahan got there. Barefoot, he monkeyed through the slick rubbery branches until he could see over the side of the battered boat. In his right hand he held Luis Córdova’s .38. He didn’t need it. Detective John Murdock wasn’t dead, ...
He was pressed against the passenger-side door, keeping the stolen .357 pointed at the freak in the army greens. The young woman was no immediate threat. The stranger blinked like a craggy tortoise. He said: “How much you get for her ring?” Snapper frowned. The fucker knew—but how? Edie Marsh did...
Meadows held his eyes closed, concentrating on the morning sounds. He listened to her footsteps from the bathroom to the kitchen. Soon he smelled coffee. His stomach stirred irritably, but he didn’t move from the bed. Meadows permitted himself his old identity for a few moments. He longed for Ter...