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kathydavie's review against another edition
2.0
Finally got interesting at the end. Hiaasen and company did a nice job writing a timeless story. Timeless in that there were so very few clues as to when, chronologically, this story was taking place. It could have been anywhen between now and the early 1960s. The only real clues were the money. What someone pulled down salary-wise or what a house cost. Ah, the good old days...
I started reading thinking it was a story about skiing and quickly learned a whole new slew of terms for cocaine instead. What's that French phrase for everything stays the same?
I started reading thinking it was a story about skiing and quickly learned a whole new slew of terms for cocaine instead. What's that French phrase for everything stays the same?
vortimer's review against another edition
3.0
Darker, and without the surreal comic elements of his later solo novels.
jimwiedower's review against another edition
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
msmelinda's review against another edition
2.0
If you're looking for a classic, snarky, intimate-Florida Hiassen book....skip this one. Sadder and more conniving than the rest, this book confusing in a way that makes you as the reader disengage. I finished it just to be done.
whirl's review
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
jheckman324's review against another edition
4.0
love his books - this was pretty good - though it's easy to see that he really matures into his writing in his more recent novels
sean67's review against another edition
2.0
At some point in the mid nineteen nineties I read a few Hiaasen books and always wanted to read them in order because they felt like that they needed to be read that way, from my memory. This was not one of the one's I read, and it is apparently his first novel. and it is very rough around the edges. In fact I would go as far as saying it really wasn't that good. I'm guessing they will pick up, and maybe it was because it was co-authored, or maybe he just had not found his own unique style yet, but this one, to put it bluntly was pretty ordinary.
jeannemurray3gmailcom's review against another edition
1.0
Didn't finish. Read 80% of it. Decided finishing wasn't worth it.
pattinh's review against another edition
3.0
He was recommended to me as an author and I thought I'd start at the beginning. It's not a bad book, but there's not a lot that stands out. Looking forward to later work that's more in line with what I've been told is fun about his books.