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kommer älska Anmäl dig till LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. An ecellent tale of some tyypical Florida residents who do atypical things. It starts off with a big splash, and keeps the pace going all through the novel. That is one of Hiaasen's strong points -- that continuous interest in his world. I suspect he will be considered the best novelist Florida has turned out since Harry Crews. (  ) andyray | Dec 14, 2009 |  A murder mystery with no actual murder (just a failed attempt) and no real mystery (the whodunit is revealed on the first page, as Joey Perrone is thrown overboard by her husband on their anniversary cruise: "I married an asshole, she thought, knifing headfirst into the waves.")Gets a bit ponderous in the sections about the *real* victim -- the Everglades, being slowly destroyed by greed and apathy -- but otherwise a light and entertaining read. Very similar to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, with the eccentric and inept criminals, handsome mysterious rebel/good guy, and a Grandma. Only better, in that you'll have healthier cravings: seafood and fruit instead of Plum's pizza and Twinkies. (  ) catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 | I enjoyed this book immensely. It was a great beach read. I often found myself laughing out loud at a turn of phrase or situation. ( ) sarahjanesandra | Sep 8, 2009 | Skinny Dip is my third Carl Hiaasen read. It may be my last. I had so much déjà vu reading this I had trouble keeping track of which one of his books I was reading. Skinny Dip is not a bad read, but it follows the formula of the other two books just too closely for my taste. You could make a case for Harry Potter being formulaic, they even had a cast of reoccurring characters, but at least Rowling had different settings for the stories, even if Hogwarts was Home Base for the series. Despite being very similar to Sick Puppy and Nature Girl, I did enjoy the read. Hiaasen tells the story in a very fluid manner and he creates some memorable, albeit stereotypical, characters. Good mind candy without too much of a risk for cavities. Great for travel reading or reading if you are going to be interrupted during a reading session. This is not heavy stuff, so it won’t take a while to get caught back up if you put it down for a while. (  ) PghDragonMan | Aug 30, 2009 | Try as I might, I simply don't understand the appeal of Hiaasen's books. They just don't have enough depth to them to hold my interest. He seems to default to sexual exploits to sustain a thin plot. (  ) puckandhammie | Aug 30, 2009 |  inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Amazon.com (ISBN 0446615129, Mass Market Paperback)Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn't drown. Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign that's guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy.You've got to hand it to Hiaasen: He's perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida's environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who'd rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the 'Glades into "God’s septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey's sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz's own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can't keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool's conscience grows in competition with Chaz's ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead. As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what's missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan's character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, from Strip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce (hämtat från Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) Första testrundan har stängts. Gå till Open Shelves Classification-gruppen om du vill veta mer. |
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