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Title: Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0-446-60466-6 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (172 reviews)
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: 3
Summary: One Step Below A School Yard Flasher
Comment: That's where Carl Hiaasen places lobbyists on the social scale. Lobbyists as well as politicians, those indifferent to the environment, and hit men will not find this novel amusing. On the other hand some professional assassins may enjoy it as CH surprisingly seems to find guns to be a solution to many problems. The author continues to vent his spleen on those who seem determined to convert Florida to one monster mall. The characters are mostly loony, nasty individuals who are focused on greed, and converting a small island to a housing and golf course development. Our hero and heroine are no saints either; he is an active felon, and she an adulteress. But who can blame her for straying when her husband is both a litterbug and a lobbyist.
Sick Puppy will entertain you with tales of rhinoceros hunting in Florida. You will meet a contractor who wants to turn the whole USA into a paved parking lot. This will eliminate chipmunks from the country, one of which bit him in the groin when he was a child. The evil island developer has a fetish for toy Barbie dolls, while the hit man wears zippered shoes and a snakeskin corset. All typical Carl Hiaasen inventions.
What's not to enjoy? Well, for some reason I found myself yawning occasionally while reading this one. These are roads well traveled by Carl, and I felt myself wishing for something a bit fresher. It's fun stuff, but not his best effort.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pristine Florida?
Comment: Carl Hiaason has got his writting style back. Outrages and funny at times. The charcaters are colorful and memorable. Even the labador, Boodle. In Sick Puppy we have a an eco-terrorist that has a compulsive drive to make sure that any one that he happens to witness harming the environment, learns the error of their ways.
Our eco-terrorist, Twilly Spree, happens to be driving behind Palmer Stoat, a state lobbyist, when Palmer throws his trash out the window of his Range Rover. This starts Twilly on a crusade to teach Palmer the error of his ways. While trying to teach Palmer lesson after lesson, Twilliy uncovers that littering is just one of Palmer's destructive habits.
This is a traditional Hiaason book with an imaginative ending. If you have a dark sense of humor, pick this book up.
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Title: Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446343455 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446352764 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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