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Title: Too High by Corson Hirschfeld ISBN: 0-7653-4060-7 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Its a damn funny book
Comment: This is a book full of high-level hilarity, with many interwoven themes that you cannot put it down for fear of losing one of the threads. Hirschfeld has done another masterful job, and I look forward to his third effort. A note for Mr. Clark (one of the earlier "reviewers" of this book). Authors don't draw their front covers, and they have no say in the design. The fanciful snake on the front cover is just that -- fanciful, and is unrelated to the intellectual content of this fine volume. Also, "antivenom" has completely overriden the almost unknown scientific term, "antivenin," in common usage in the United States. Had Hirschfeld used antivenin in his book, it would have been misunderstood by most of the public, and laughed at by academic herpetologists. He did it just right. In fact, he did the entire book right. It is herpetologically one of the most accurate books of fiction ever written.
Rating: 5
Summary: The artist who did the book cover doesn't know ....
Comment: The artist, Stephen de las Heras painted a snake on the cover
of "Too High" that has the body of a King snake and the head of
a Coral snake. Corson claims, in his credits, at least to be
knowledgeable in herpetology. He should have caught this error.
He and his bubbah, J.T. collected reptiles from one end of
Kentucky to the other (frontispiece)? On page 81 Corson has his
herpetologist (Nikki) describe a Coral snake and compare it to
the Scarlet King snake and she also uses the non-word "anti-
venom" in lieu of the correct word: "anti-venin". Why?
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Rating: 3
Summary: Funny, but in an average, predictable sort of way
Comment:
Hirschfeld dumps a lot of stuff into this story: wacky militia members, a truck full of rattlesnakes and a rattlesnake expert, rednecks, historical facts, a druggie psycopath (and his sister), eccentric rich guys, and the obligatory kinky sex scene (this one involving an Indian woman and a guy pretending to be a settler woman in distress). I'm guessing there were dwarves in earlier revisions.
However, I didn't find the characters particularly compelling and the writing is only average, so for me it all added up to just a typical piece of pop fiction. It would be the perfect book to read on the airplane if it were 250 pages instead of 450, but I found myself wishing it would end sooner than it did.
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Title: Aloha, Mr. Lucky by Corson Hirschfeld ISBN: 0765343428 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 14 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Freeze Dry by Corson Hirschfeld ISBN: 0765308002 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Mr. Paradise : A Novel by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083956 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Cadillac Beach : A Novel by Tim Dorsey ISBN: 0060520469 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey ISBN: 0061031550 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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