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Summary: Funny and fast paced
Review: Having a chance to read some fast paced and funny fiction is a rarity for me, so I was delighted to have someone hand me this book by pure chance and say "this is good". The story involves a troubled young man who hates seeing nature harmed and how he goes about trying to teach certain violators a lesson. There are dirty politicians, corrupt developers, hookers, hit men and plenty of action.The story moves quickly and doesn't have any dull spots, making it the perfect book for airplane trips or waiting rooms. It touches serious topics, true, but does so with wit and sarcasm and leaves no side pure, although I'd guess the writer to be a liberal as some of his viewpoints seem to bleed into the story, whether on purpose or not I cannot say as this is the first work of his I have read. All in all, I recommend this book and look forward to reading some of his others.
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Summary: Carl Rocks
Review: I have just read a wide variety of reviews for this book and would like to add my two cents. He's done this before? Yes well, Carl rocks, lets hope he does it again. I had such a great time with this book. At first you think it is just fun filled fantasy and not very real. Then you realize that all these other books with solid characters are just bunk, and Carl's characters are much more real. They change with each event and mood and which ever way the wind blows. But isn't that how we all really are? We have a foundation, yes. But we also shape shift according to each event. I know that I behave differently with my childhood family verses my husband and children. And am especially different say with my girlfriends than I am with a patient. The topic of character building is an interesting one for me. A character must be solid enough for the reader to 'know' him or her, but is it realistic for them to be the same and predicable in every situation? I know I'm not. I ask you this: do we search for novels with these "solid" characters with a hope to find more stability with ourselves? Do Carl's characters scare you because they give insight to the way the world really works? Oh, and in response to one review, I'd have to say this is not a book to listen to on tape while driving across country with your parents! This book is fun. It lifts you up and takes you away, if you let it. Enjoy.
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Summary: Funny, but a letdown
Review: I picked this book up because I loved Basket Case. This one, however, didn't measure up. It is funny--which is why I'm giving it 3 stars--but after a while, the preachiness got to me. As other reviewers have pointed out, any character who's making money is through-and-through bad, while anyone who's not (even if they have plenty of it from the efforts of their fathers/spouses) is well-rounded and good. What also hindered my enjoyment is that I didn't in the least like any of the characters; I actively disliked most of them.
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Summary: warning: excessive hyphenation ahead
Review: I read and enjoyed this book a year ago, then read it to my wife and enjoyed it a second time (she liked it too). It's a fun, sometimes gruesome, tale featuring eco-vandalism, anger management, true love, political lobbying, safari hunting, 911 tapes, Barbie dolls, littering, and more. Each character is more sleazy, disturbed, dirty, or otherwise fascinating than the last. The sick puppy of the title is a big black lab named McGuinn (or is it Boodle?), who has major plot impact. Or is the sick puppy the litterbug sleazeball lobbyist? Or maybe it's the porcupine-haired hit man? No, it's got to be the Barbie-loving developer. Or maybe the red-glass-eye-wearing Everglades-dwelling ex-governor. Or... you get the idea. Even the good guys aren't folks you'd want to have over for the weekend. (In fact, the only truly nice characters are the women.) The whole story is told with an "it could only happen in Florida" tone, which makes me want to read more Hiaasen (and Dave Barry). It was also my first eco-fiction read, which makes me want to read others, including TC Boyle's "A Friend of the Earth."
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Summary: Chris's Amazing Chorelundeerohundasuch
Review: Sick Puppy is a super book. It is a story with an insane plot about a man trying to prevent somjeone from littering. The man has to catch the litterbug before he litters some more. I like this book because it has so much action and different things are always happening. However, I think that the characters are a little bit too unrealistic. This book is different from other books because this book has an incredible plot, and characters with extreme characteristics.
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Summary: Adam'z of da hizzel
Review: Sick Puppy is the greatest book ever written but it doesn't get five stars because no books are good enough. It has a crazy plot and insane characters. I think that everyone in the world should have to read this book as a requirement. The main character, Twilly, has a big anger management problem. He has to stop corrupt Florida politics from destroying an island because they plan on building a big town there. This book is way better than any other book because the storyline of this book is outrageous.
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Summary: Chris's Amazing Cholureefindalurench
Review: Sick Puppy is a super book. It is a story with an insane plot about a man trying to prevent someone from littering. The man has to catch the litterbug before he litters some more. I like this book because it ahs so much action and differenty things are always happening. However, I think that the characters are a little bit too unrealistic. This book is different from other books because this book has an incredible plot and characters with extreme characteristics.
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Summary: Madcap escapades a la Hiaasen
Review: This is another vintage Hiaasen, his 8th insane and inana novel that exploits the eccentricity and frontier-like quality (in terms of oddballs and near-lawlessness) of Southern Florida.
The protagonist, like those in many of Hiaasen's other books, is not exactly a good guy, but among the many bad guys, he's the best of the litter. This one has 'anger management issues,' and his mission is to punish environmental litterers.
You'll have to read it to believe it!
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Summary: You've got it all wrong Amazon.com!
Review: You have the reviews for CH's "Sick Puppy" under the CH title, "Basket Case." I'd like to read some of the reviews for BC. Please correct this faux pas. Having not read SP, I've no other comments.
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Summary: Sick Puppy = Healthy Read
Review: Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy is an amusing romp through the wacky world of Florida. You've got Twilly Spree a environmentally friendly nutcase with an unbelievable temper and a unlimited trust fund. One day he spots Palmer Stoat, an overbloated Florida lobbiest, littering on the highway and it is there that the games begin. Twilly begins his campaign, which at first is rather nebulous, to singlehandedly destroy Stoat. Along the way, Twilly winds up with Stoat's dog and his wife. The novel is entertaining and amusing, fully of humorous characters, all of them twisted in their own ways. Sick Puppy is an enjoyable quick read. Have fun.
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