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| Original Title: | Stormy Weather |
| ISBN: | 0446677167 (ISBN13: 9780446677165) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Skink #3 |
| Setting: | Florida(United States) |
Carl Hiaasen
Paperback | Pages: 388 pages Rating: 3.95 | 14565 Users | 829 Reviews
Describe Of Books Stormy Weather (Skink #3)
| Title | : | Stormy Weather (Skink #3) |
| Author | : | Carl Hiaasen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 388 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2001 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Mystery. Crime |
Narration To Books Stormy Weather (Skink #3)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today
Two honeymooners wake up early, make love twice, and brace themselves for a spectacle they won't be watching from the sidelines. A seductive con artiste stumbles into a scam that promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shotgun-toting mobile home salesman is about to close a deal with disaster. A law school dropout will be chasing one Gaboon viper, a troop of storm-shocked monkeys, and a newfound love life, while tourists by the thousands bail from the Florida Keys. We're now entering the hurricane zone, where hell and hilarity rule. And in the hands of the masterful, merciless Carl Hiaasen, we're going to have some weather.
Rating Of Books Stormy Weather (Skink #3)
Ratings: 3.95 From 14565 Users | 829 ReviewsArticle Of Books Stormy Weather (Skink #3)
When I joined GR, I mistakenly thought I had read this book and gave it four stars. I was wrong - which I realised when I stumbled upon the book at the Lifeline Bookfair in Canberra. I've now actually read the novel and upgraded it to five stars.Carl Hiassen has not dissapointed me yet.This is my kind of book. It has zany characters that you really do love or hate and understand, a funny plot as intricately woven as a fine basket and an underlying message - that is not in your face and you canThis book was like reading a tabloid, only I cared less about the people between the covers.
Knowing of Carl Hiassen's reputation, I picked up Stormy Weather as fun vacation reading on a trip to Florida, and I was not disappointed by this hilarious, rollicking satire of southern Florida in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. The plot is way too complicated for me to even attempt to summarize, and the novel is filled with a seemingly unending series of bizarre and often unpleasant, if not downright repulsive, characters. But it is a really funny book. Hiassen is not only a keen
Very dark frenetic humor with a superabundance of ridiculous characters on the margins of society. I guess one could consider the police officers normal....sort of. Very funny. Would make a wild movie with lots of slapstick and insane situations. I wouldn't want to read a lot of books like this, but Stormy Weather was a good experience for me. Set in Florida. Is everyone in Florida like this?
For a break from somber literature, I can always count on Hiaasen to deliver a humorous page-turner, a guilty pleasure of wacky characters and their flawed motives. Great entertainment, good-natured satire of human foibles.A timely read, just weeks after Hurricane Irma. He captures perfectly the hucksters, swindlers, looters, and opportunists swooping in to profit from misfortune.
Usually I start reviews with a brief plot summary, but I'm not even sure how to sum this one up. The story takes place in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane that has hit Florida, and hard -- that part is easy enough. But against this backdrop Hiaasen sketches a tale that could only take place in one of his novels. With the normal social boundaries washed away by the storm, Florida becomes a land of chaos, and Hiaasen's characters reveal very interesting aspects of human nature.In an initial
South Florida is its own uniquely twisted universe. Other than the late Charles Willeford ("Miami Blues"), no one captures this world more accurately, vividly and hilariously in fiction than Carl Hiaasen. "Stormy Weather", written in 1995, is the zanier side of the truly horrific Hurricane Andrew, a vicious satire of the darker side of my adopted Sunshine State, a poke in the eye of the public "servants" and developers who built (or allowed) a world of match-stick and balsa wood homes, and those
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