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Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen (1986)

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

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I don’t know what to make of this novel, and maybe it’s a case of well, they don’t make them like this anymore. It’s an oddly rich and literary-adjacent mystery novel, it’s also fast and loose with racist and homophobic slurs (some that serve the narrative, and some that don’t — it’s one thing to have a character who would casually toss out slurs as part of their nature, but there’s also a sign of the times casualness with some of the language that makes […]

Timely satire or too soon?

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a petite, wealthy, elderly Republican woman were killed and eaten by a Burmese python? I hadn’t either until Carl Hiaasen put the idea in my head with his latest book, Squeeze Me. Angela Armstrong is the wildlife wrangler hired to remove a Burmese python from a luxury event location in Palm Beach, Florida. Before she can deliver the python’s corpse to the state, it’s stolen from her apartment. At the same time, word has gotten out that […]

Some wrinkles

Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen

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It’s always interesting to read books like this from a pre-internet era and muse on how different the world was a very short time ago.  So many plot points here would just disappear if google existed in Mick Stranahan’s world. It’s almost quaint reading the leaps our hero makes to trap a killer plastic surgeon, the strings he pulls and the traps he sets in 1980’s Florida that would be completely unnecessary now. There’s a cute scene involving an accurate sketch of the doctor’s hired […]

Monkey see, monkey does what it wants

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen

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My bf had read this book and loaned it to me when we initially started dating. A year and nearly seven months later and I have finally gotten to it. I kept putting this book down which for me isn’t usually the best sign but in the end I kept with it. Hiaasen had me smirking as wacky hijinks occurred and at the center was murder and a frozen arm, flanked by a cop trying to get back on the force and more cliches and […]

Definitely not a positive image for Florida

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

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Carl Hiaasen’s Bad Monkey reminded me a lot of Dave Barry’s books — lots of crazy shit going down, kooky people, weird coincidences, and of course, it all takes place in Florida. I was not quite blown away with the plot of Bad Monkey, but the dialogue was extremely well-written and witty. I loved the two main characters — Yancy and Rosa — based entirely upon their conversations with each other. “Miami … the floating-human-body-parts capital of America.” Andrew Yancy is a disgraced Floridian police officer — I’ll let you […]



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