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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: 0-449-00124-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (42 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Wacky Look at a Wacky City
Comment: It was bound to happen. Only in Miami (well, maybe in Los Angeles also) could a group of writers take turns doing a nutty story and have it sound like events you'd read in the Miami Herald. Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard and ten other south Florida authors each contribute a chapter to a story of theft, kidnaping, and murder in a plot to overthrow Fidel Castro, and Castro's moves to thwart it. Tourists, gangsters, environmentalists, reporters, and lawyers populate the story, but weaving through it all is a huge, affectionate manatee named Booger. The story comes back to Booger again and again, and when Booger is finally happy, we know the story has reached its fitting end. The book is whimsical and tremendously funny. It's well worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great fun in the sun!
Comment: What a wild romp! One literary gumshoe is introduced, the next chapter he wins the lottery and is written out of the plot! The fictional sleuths of several famous mystery writers duel with each other to unravel the secrets of Castro's head(s). The sole constant character is the oft-maligned Manatee - he of small brain and nicknamed Booger.
The amazingly smooth flow of the plot through thirteen different writers made this book a delight to read, although it was too short. Obviously, in the manner of Carl Hiassen and Dave Barry, the humor dances on every page. The continuity between chapters, which must have required each individual writer to read and reread each previous chapter in order to match details, never loses the thread. It was a treat to relish each author's style, get to know in some small manner, that writer's favorite detective, and yet follow the ever-lingering Booger as he floats through the plot.
This is a book for summer vacation: read it on the beach and wait for Booger to show up!
Rating: 2
Summary: Started strong, lost interest half way through
Comment: This book started really strong and started dying about half way through. The first half flowed pretty nicely, the authors all had very close styles of writing that made it really enjoyable. About half way through, one of the big characters just disappeared and became a minor one, the styles of writing changed, sex and violence suddenly were added in what seemed like a PG-rated book, and the flow of events suddenly changed and left you confused. At the end, things seemed to make some sense, but at the same time your thinking "What?" Started strong, ended badly. Too bad too, I really liked Booger.
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Title: Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0345422805 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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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: Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen by Carl Hiaasen, Diane Stevenson ISBN: 0425186067 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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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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Title: Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0446611514 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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