Nature Girl
by:
Carl Hiaasen (author)
Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic...
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Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility. What she doesn’t know is that she’s being followed by her Honey-obsessed former employer, Piejack (whose mismatched fingers are proof that sexual harassment in the workplace is a bad idea). And he doesn’t know he’s being followed by Honey’s still-smitten former drug-running ex-husband, Perry, and their wise-and-protective-way-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old-son, Fry. And when they all pull up on Dismal Key, they don’t know they’re intruding on Sammy Tigertail, a half white–half Seminole failed alligator wrestler, trying like hell to be a hermit despite the Florida State coed who’s dying to be his hostage . . . Will Honey be able to make a mensch of a “greedhead”? Will Fry be able to protect her from Piejack—and herself? Will Sammy achieve his true Seminole self? Will Eugenie ever get to the beach? Will the Everglades survive the wild humans? All the answers are revealed in the delectably outrageous mayhem that propels this novel to its Hiaasen-of-the-highest-order climax.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307262998 (0307262995)
Publish date: November 14th 2006
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
This is one of those pleasantly zany books where an eclectic mix of characters is scrambled together in a madcap plot and much sex, violence, and hilarity results. I've seen it done better, I've seen it done much worse, but I'm kind of digging how many books make out Florida to be the epicenter of A...
I'll give a solid 3 Stars to this Hiaasen romp through the Florida back country. Usually he gets plenty of smiles from me but I was laughing out loud at his characters in this one. His stories are impossible to characterize in a way that would do him justice but you wouldn't be disappointed if you t...
Madcap - enjoyable if you're into that kind of thing.
It took me nine weeks to listen to this book on audio during my commute. Not sure if it was worth it (though I'm still adjusting to listening to books after a long break from audio). It took a long time to be introduced to the various quirky characters, and most of them were not very likable. Once t...
i must say that i am not really impress with this one. it is still fun, but most of the time, i think it has too many characters, and well, too many ideas, i just lost track. but Fry is a very nice character for a 12 year old boy.