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Title: Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen, Edward Asner, Tk, Edward Asner ISBN: 0375409513 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91
Rating: 4
Summary: Regained Form for Hiaasen
Comment: After Hiaasen's last two novels "Stromy Weather" and "Lucky You" I wondered if my favorite author had slipped a notch or two. Hiaasen returns with "Sick Puppy" a dark but funny look at the seedy side of political lobbyists. Hiaasen goes too what he knows best in "Sick Puppy". Corruption, the destruction of Florida's great nature and good old boy ex-govenor Clinton Tyree or Skink to true Hiaasen fans.
In "Sick Puppy" Hiassen introduces us too Willy Spree, who is like a Skink Jr. On a highway Spree sees a literbug and decides he will teach this literbug a lesson. The literbug is Palmer Stoat a corrupt lobbyist who is the middle of getting the Shearwater Island Resort throught the capitol. After a few hilarous pranks, Spree finds out about the resort and is determined to stop the resort and save the small island from the bulldozer. He ends up dognapping Stoat's dog, a lovable black lab named Boodle. Boodle whose name gets changed too McGuinn is the star of this novel. The following events are funny involving great characters, both good and bad that only Hiaasen can create.
I did notice that this book is much more well rounded than the previous two. Hiassen uses his typical style and timeline to create another fantastic read. This one is a must for any Hiaasen fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hiaasen's Best Yet!
Comment: From the younger-generation eco-terrorist, Twilly, to the evil cigar-addict/habitual litter bug/lobbyist, Stoat, and his wife, who's had enough of Stoat's use of his Polaroid in their bedroom, to our old friend, Hiaasen's original eco-terrorist, Skink, to the Barbie doll-obsessed former drug dealer turned land developer with his two 6 ft. Americanized artificial twin Eastern European Rhino-horn-crazed living Barbie sex dolls, and finally a rambunctious black lab named Boodles/McGuinn,who just wants to have fun and sniff, Hiaasen has put together the most wonderfully weird group of characters yet. The plots race toward assuring the safekeeping and seclusion of Skink's brother, the saving a small Florida island from greedy development, the liberation of Stoat's wife Desie from her horrible husband and Boodles/McGuinn serving as the inadvertant catylist in prompting a geriatric rhino to provide the main bad guys their just rewards, all in the midst of political wheeling and dealing. "Sick Puppy" is complicated and hilarious with all too true comments on human greed and our lack of concern for our planet and fellow man. This book should be required reading for all of us.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funny, absurd, and message-bearing
Comment: The scene is Florida, an ecologically beautiful state under the constant threat of development. A group of lobbyists, perverts, and other pitiful people is trying to develop an island into a golf course. A furious eco-terrorist is out to stop them.
Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy is a cocktail of crazy characters, ranging from the sexual pervert Robert Clapey (who has acquired two Eastern European, "rhino sex powder" addicted women and plans to transform them into living Barbies) to Twilly Spree (a disturbed eco-terrorist who hunts people down for trashing the planet in some way). There's Mr. Gash, a hit man who meets his end in a sort of poetic justice involving a 911 call. Then there's the antagonist, Palmer Stoat, a lobbyist for the governor who thinks nothing of throwing trash out his car window and sleeping with prostitutes while drunk (and married).
But behind this laughfest of a book is a serious message, a message about all of the Palmer Stoats out there who technically run our government. Hiaasen seems to be saying that in our present society, anti-environmental lobbyists are making decisions for us, and that corrupt, back-stabbing politicians are the most effective.
Sick Puppy is a sick, twisted, riotously funny book to be enjoyed by anyone.
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Title: Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446604658 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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