by Carl Hiaasen
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.
Rarely have I found an author that has made me laugh out loud so many times in one book. Hiaasen has done that for me in the books of his I have read. I love his wit and dry humor. This is a great story about two lottery ticket winners in Florida. One is a young black woman that works in a vet's off...
Log in with Facebook 
