Product Description

Hurray, another Hiaasen!' A fully loaded, riotous and righteous, non-stop hilarious novel by 'America's 'undisputed master of organised chaos'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13801 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
Hiaasen's latest heroine is mad as hell, at least when she's off her meds, and she's not going to take it anymore.When a telemarketer who's interrupted dinner with her son Fry to peddle waterlogged Florida real estate responds to her gentle reproof with obscenities, Honey Santana, deciding he needs to be taught a lesson, sets out to entice Boyd Shreave to the Everglades to give him a taste of his own medicine. She lures both Boyd and his colleague and mistress Eugenie Fonda to Dismal Key, where she proposes to give them a comprehensive immersion in unspoiled Florida. For better or worse, though, she's picked a week when Dismal Key is overrun with other loonies. Sammy Tigertail has come at the behest of the late Jeter Wilson, whose spirit has been nagging him ("This was the worst vacation I ever had") ever since Sammy dumped his body into an obliging swamp. Theodore Dealey is a private eye hoping to get photos of Boyd and Eugenie in flagrante for Boyd's wife, whose interest in the affair has gone way beyond divorce. Louis Piejack, the rancid ex-boss who groped Honey and lived to regret the sequel, is positive she has the hots for him. Perry Skinner, vice mayor of Everglades City, takes a proprietary interest in both Honey, since he used to be her husband, and Fry, since he used to be his father. Members of the First Resurrectionist Maritime Assembly for God are waiting for the Messiah to make landfall. FSU undergraduate Gillian St. Croix, who just wants to have fun, is about the only cast member to get her wish.For once, the characters are funnier than their exhaustingly unpredictable interactions. The result is less satire than usual from Hiaasen (Skinny Dip, 2004, etc.), and more Rube Goldberg farce. (Kirkus Reviews)

Independent
`Nature Girl, the product of a deranged imagination, combines the comedic
energy of Molière with Mark Twain's lightness of phrase.'

Observer
Carl Hiaasen's latest screwball thriller ... is sometimes
ludicrous but always engaging and frequently hilarious.

Customer Reviews

disappointing
I disagree with the first reviewer; if you haven't read Carl Hiaasen before then DON'T start here. This is a dull and lacklustre effort in a series of books that have been extremely entertaining and funny. I would suggest reading 'Lucky You', 'Sick Puppy' well in fact any of them but this. From start to finish this book feels like it's slowly running out of steam, but don't let that put you reading his other stuff, he's a great writer going through a bad spell.

Sticks to the Hiassen formula and delivers another funny romp through the Florida Everglades
This book sticks to the (winning) formula of the author's previous works: larger-than-life (and sleazier-than-life) characters who get themselves into the most bizarre situations and create hilarious mayhem in the process. Hilarious, as usual.

Zany as ever
Hiaasen fans are in for the usual heady mix of wacky characters brought together in bizarre circumstances. Here, an obnoxious telesales operator is lulled in to a trap to set him on a path of righteousness. The backdrop is the myriad of islands of Florida's 'Thousand Islands' and it's real boon to this captivating story. It's original and humourous - Hiaasen has great skill in creating witty narrative, bursting at the seams with (often misplaced) idealism. It's a very unlikely tale, but then Hiaasen pulls it off as usual. An easy going book, with plenty of interesting elements - recommended.