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Title: Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0-446-61151-4 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (47 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Moral indignation expressed through cynical, viscious humor
Comment: While I was reading Skin Tight, someone asked me what the book was about. As I tried to describe the basic storyline, I realized that the plot is not only hard to explain but extremely farfetched,bordering on preposterous. However, that's beside the point.
The joy of reading this book comes from the way Hiaasen uses his wicked sense of humor and his vast writing skills to lambast society's corruption and greed. While protagonist Mick Stranahan is fighting mafia hitmen and outsmarting crooked cops, Hiaasen himself is busy skewering inept plastic surgeons and their narcissistic patients, made-for-tv lawyers, on-the-take politicians, corrupt judges, tourists, sleazy journalists, actresses, fashion models . . . and, I almost forgot, tree trimmers.
Hiaasen's collection of colorful characters, fast-paced dialogue and ascerbic wit make Skin Tight an enjoyable read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hiaasen makes us laugh at society's moral rot
Comment: As usual, Hiaasen's Skin Tight is set in south Florida, a planet of its own making. Swarming with society's weirdos, it features an inept plastic surgeon with ties to the Mafia, inept ripoff artists, inept hit men, and a very ept Mick Stranahan, who open the story with killing an intruder by impaling him with a trophy spearfish. Only Hiaasen could come up with something like that, but know what? I'll bet he culled it from a honest-to-God clipping from some south Florida rag. As he himself says, he couldn't make up all this stuff. Hiaasen's manic, wicked, and satirical sense of humor is in evidence on every page. The central plot is not especially important in his books - it's the process of going along for the ride that keeps us, his devotees, turning page after page after page long after we should have turned out the light and gone to sleep.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Great Book
Comment: Carl Hiassen is a wonderfully funny, yet thrilling author. This story leads you through a murder mystery with all kinds of crazy characters and circumstances. You find yourself rooting for Mick Stranahan...a good guy on the search for a killer, but also a killer himself. Make sense? Not really...but the book takes you on another wild Hiassen ride. I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a very entertaining story.
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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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Title: Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446343455 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446352764 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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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: Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446603422 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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