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The Carl Hiaasen Boxed Set»rank: 583479par: Carl Hiaasen
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Skinny Dip»rank: 583479par: Carl Hiaasen
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The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
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Striptease»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
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Tourist Season: A Novel»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
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Sick Puppy-Skin Tight»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
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Native Tongue»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
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Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Let's get one thing straight: Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. Whenever the giant entertainment conglomerate stumbles, as it did with its proposed Civil War theme park in Virginia, Hiaasen cheers. When a rhinoceros mysteriously dies at Disney's new theme park, Animal Kingdom, Hiaasen secretly hopes for the worst, because, as he writes, 'no scandal is so delectable as a Disney scandal.' A native of Florida, author of such thrillers as Lucky You and Strip Tease, and a journalist for the Miami Herald, Hiaasen comes by his ... |
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Sick Puppy»rank: 483973par: Hiaasen Carl
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Carl Hiaasen's characters ride and flail on little verbal hurricanes, and his literary storm shows no signs of dying down. Sick Puppy shares Dave Barry's giddy gift for finding humor in South Florida horrors, and a bit of Elmore Leonard's genius for pitch-perfect dialogue spouted smartly by criminals who are dumb as stumps. The title of Hiaasen's eighth novel could apply to most of its characters, but it chiefly refers to an ebullient Labrador retriever named Boodle and the millionaire eco-terrorist Twilly Spree. Let's just say that Twilly has ... |
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Basket Case»rank: 483973par: Carl Hiaasen
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Carl Hiaasen has long been at the forefront of satire and outrageous comedy in crime writing but his last few books had lacked the righteous anger of his earlier efforts. Basket Case proves a welcome and thoroughly enjoyable return to corrosive form for the crusading Miami Herald journalist it's better not to cross. lnstead of his customary and by now predictable targets of venal developers and corporate greed, Hiaasen here skewers the rock & roll business and its attendant denizens and hangers-on with wilful glee and a mischievous use ... |