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Title: Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen by Carl Hiaasen, Diane Stevenson ISBN: 0-425-18606-7 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A crusader with a sense of humour
Comment: I love this man's writing! I started with his fiction and having devoured all there was of that at the time I stumbled on his first book of Miami Herald columns. I bought Paradise Screwed as soon as it was out.
The really exciting thing about Carl is that he takes on the corruption and the sleaze and the bizarre goings on in Florida and makes people aware of them through witty yet hard hitting writing. He isn't afraid to make waves and when you read this book you will begin to wonder about the greasing of the wheels in State politics.
He is passionate about his home state and what is happening to it and as a visitor to Florida on more than one occassion, he has really made me think about the affects of inconsiderate development and tourism.
But even if you aren't keen on any of that, the columns are clever and well written, so it's well worth the read.
Rating: 5
Summary: What Michael Moore is to the nation, Hiaasen is to Florida
Comment: Another collection of "baseball-bat-to-the-forehead" columns in a similar writing style as Moore. Both men use biting satire and their wicked wit to tell you what they think, and are unafraid in doing so. Hiaasen is even more impressive I think because his substantive job is still journalism and yet he can find humor in real people and events as easily as in fiction.
These columns are a selection from over the last 20 years of events in South Florida. You don't have to go back any further than 2 years to Elian Gonzalez and the 2000 presidential election to know that there's enough grist-for-the-mill here to fill much more than one book on these two topics alone. Nevertheless Hiaasen reins himself in and spreads his verbal darts around. Topics covered include "Mayor loco", the soon-to-be-gone Marlins, Chads (not a person, those bits of paper, remember?) Dolphins (both the team and the ones that frequently drown offshore), Race Riots, a con artist doctor and a pet-hating extortionist. That's the more exotic stuff. Then there's the normal South Florida fare of crooked politicians, stupid state officials, assorted mobsters and mafia, drugs, guns, and general mayhem and madness. As Hiaasen said in a recent interview "all the paths of slime and disreputability seem to lead here."
The man is a Florida treasure and for those of us who live through what he writes about his humor is a saving grace. Very few of us can express it the way he does so he is our voice of reason saying yes, it's PARADISE SCREWED allright, but we're still alive we can laugh about it.
Rating: 5
Summary: More Greatness from the Mencken of Greater Miami
Comment: I think that the previous customer review misses the point of this collection. Its predecessor, KICK ASS, was mostly intended to showcase Hiaasen's brilliance of style. PARADISE SCREWED is not aiming to be KICK ASS, PART TWO; it's not a gathering of columns that did not make the cut for the first volume. Instead, it expands outward to focus on issues. Its purpose is entirely different (as is evident from the title), and so is the principle of selection. The writing itself, though, is as biting and as crucial as that in the first collection. Both books are vital and essential.
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Title: Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen by Carl Hiaasen, Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0425178242 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0345422805 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 044661193X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Naked Came the Manatee by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, James W. Hall, Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Brian Antoni, Tananarive Due, John Dufresne ISBN: 0449001245 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0449221180 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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