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Bad Monkey (Knopf) has Carl Hiaasen back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land in Florida — now, in the Bahamas too — get their comeuppance in ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.
Hiaasen makes the top of my list for his bitingly funny writing. As a former Floridian who fled the land of greedy land developers and Yankees who dress in pink and green plaid, his story especially rings true to me. Recommended by Robin, Powell's City of Books
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Who let the voles out? The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger — and deadlier — things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rodents is Joe Winder, a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter who now works for the park as their PR man.
Even as a scandal breaks out over the theft, Winder finds himself trailing an eco-terrorist geriatric, a certain former-governor-turned-swamp rat, and sleazy land developer Francis X. Kingsbury. Determined to uncover the true nature of the Kingdom, Winder must survive this harrowing wilderness — before the natives get to him...
Review:
"Hiassen sends his reluctant journalist hero after a morally corrupt real estate developer in this scattershot but inventive entertainment." Publisher's Weekly
Review:
"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." New York Times Book Review
Review:
"Ruthlessly wicked...wonderful." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Review:
"Hiaasen is an original...a compulsive entertainer...driving his story at a hair-raising tempo." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Review:
"Native Tongue moves briskly, and Hiaasen's inventiveness and verbal dexterity seem limitless." USA Today
Review:
"It is a measure of the writer's talent that no matter how bizarre the situation, it is believable.....Highly recommended." Library Journal
Review:
"Madcap and sometimes quite funny, but strained as well, with the action often so absurd as to leach realism and thus suspense. The problem may be that Hiaasen's tilled this particular crime-comic soil one time too many." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis:
Now reissued — one of the most beloved novels by the New York Times bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.
edtulip0, March 2, 2007 (view all comments by edtulip0)
Typical off-the-wall Hiaasen plot & characters. Good light read with subtle & obvious satire and humor.
One comment to Carl: Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is housed in the maximum security Attica (NY) state prison; not Riker's Island which is the NY City lockup (equivalent to a county jail).
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Product details
481 pages
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English9780446613200
Reviews:
"Staff Pick"
by Robin,
Hiaasen makes the top of my list for his bitingly funny writing. As a former Floridian who fled the land of greedy land developers and Yankees who dress in pink and green plaid, his story especially rings true to me.
by Robin
"Publishers Weekly Review"
by Publishers Weekly,
"Hiassen sends his reluctant journalist hero after a morally corrupt real estate developer in this scattershot but inventive entertainment." Publisher's Weekly
"Review"
by New York Times Book Review,
"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace."
"Review"
by Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
"Ruthlessly wicked...wonderful."
"Review"
by Los Angeles Times Book Review,
"Hiaasen is an original...a compulsive entertainer...driving his story at a hair-raising tempo."
"Review"
by USA Today,
"Native Tongue moves briskly, and Hiaasen's inventiveness and verbal dexterity seem limitless."
"Review"
by Library Journal,
"It is a measure of the writer's talent that no matter how bizarre the situation, it is believable.....Highly recommended."
"Review"
by Kirkus Reviews,
"Madcap and sometimes quite funny, but strained as well, with the action often so absurd as to leach realism and thus suspense. The problem may be that Hiaasen's tilled this particular crime-comic soil one time too many."
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
Now reissued — one of the most beloved novels by the New York Times bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.
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