Lucky You
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780679460398 (067946039X)
Publish date: October 28th 1997
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
This was a fun and laugh-out-loud book populated with plenty of 'characters'. I have only been to Florida once, so I can't comment on the veracity of this portrayal of Floridians, but I can't see how someone can make up this kind of weirdness without a grain of truth behind it all. Under the levity,...
Another riot of a book this time it's about a winning lottery ticket. Actually two winning lottery tickets. JoLayne Lucks uses the numbers that corespond to the age she dumped a tiresome lover, every week, this time they're lucky for her. She's the winner of 14million, half of the 28 million jack...
So I read Hoot with my kids and thought this was another adolescent fiction book. I figured I'd read it and then suggest it to my 11 year old (if it was an okay read). This is not a kid's book; this is an adult novel and unlike his adolescent fiction (which was good), I found this to be just juveni...
God, I love this author. He is hysterical, and paints South Florida with such a jaundiced eye. Read this on vacation, and laugh your butt off while those on neighboring lounge chairs stare at you. Hiaasen is a master. (Note--these older books, Lucky You, Tourist Season, Sick Puppy are better than th...
This book made me laugh out loud. The thing I love about Carl Hiaasen is his ability to evoke places and people seemingly effortlessly. His descriptions of old, weird Florida are spot on. And hilarious.
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