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Summary: you gotta stay awake for this one o_O
Review: dont get discouraged by the seemingly never-ending list of characters, you'll get to know them apart as you read. i guess the best word to describe this book is - twisted. it follows quite a few different people and tells the story of the same events from each of their points of view. confused? yeh. but surprisingly enough, the book does forge ahead. i found myself making dog-ears of the pages with funny little quips so i could repeat them to my friends. i wasn't disappointed and im thinking of exploring carl hiaasen some more.
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Summary: A repeat of early stuff...
Review: 1) The only other book I've read up to this point from CH was Native Tongue. This book felt like the same story just a slightly different set of characters...therefore, I agree with the other lower rated comments that this was the same story with a different cover.2) As with Native Tongue the character are intriguing because they are strange and you don't know what to expect. 3) The irony of actions always brings a nice dose of humor. 4) Again...CH writes materials not for younger audiences and even sometimes too descriptive for us older audiences. 5) At first I cringed at the thought of reading a book about the "environment" but as with Native Tongue, CH handles the subject matter well, letting the strange cast take the forefront and his theme/mission take the background
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Summary: Great Light-Novel
Review: I'm not a big Mass-Produced Novel kinda guy. Whenever I see a book that's published like this, it makes me think of all those stupid super-market thrillers. Aside from my original misgivings I was totally delighted reading this. One part Edward Abbey One Part Elmore Leonard with just enough Vonnegut-Esque Zanniness gets you Sick Pupppy. If The Monkey-Wrench Gang felt promising but lacking for you (it did for me) this book is excellent.
Carl Hiaasans characters are totally unbelievable - but that's what makes them great! Their SO Wild, and SO crazy that you have no idea what they're gonna do. Between the Eco-Terrorist with a Trust Fund, the Token Beauty Queen, the Sleavy Eco-Destroyer and the hitman with 911 emer. calls on tape the tale unfolds like a hurricane.
My Only Complaint... It's Too Short! It was about 550 or so pages - normally plenty - but No! You won't want this book to end. It's A Great Book with A Conscious. Totally Recommended!
Dustin
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Summary: Hiaasen's Vision Stays on Track
Review: Sick Puppy is serious humor. The usual suspects are found in these pages and Hiaasen uses them all to excellent effect (except, I think, for the hooker who never lives up to her comic potential.) But behind the humor is a no-bones about it indictment of Real Estate Developers on a universal basis and the Florida politicians who abet them. Read Hiaasen's works and the next time you see a bridge going in where there is no need of one or a road widening in the middle of nowhere you won't say "Hmmm..." you'll say "Aha!" I only wish that Carl would move out of Florida (which is probably a lost cause at this point) and come up to North Carolina where development is in high gear and driving us toward the same disaster. Keep it up, Carl and come visit the Old North State while it is still worth saving.
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Summary: Nice mix of humor & environmental message
Review: I found this book to be a nice mix of humor and an evironmental message. Also being a dog lover, I enjoyed having a dog being one of the key characters in the book. I found the author's device of having overlapping scenes from diffent perspectives also effective. I don't know if Florida's politics really work the way depicted in the book, but it seems like they could. My wife said Hiaasen's first book was better so I plan to read that as well.
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Summary: unpleasant and distasteful mind pollution
Review: Though many of Mr. Hiaasen's characters fit the description, ultimately the title of this book refers to the mind of the author. I attempted to listen to the unabridged book on tape with my parents while on a road trip across the U.S. The coarse and vulgar descriptions Mr. Hiaasen utilized exasperated my mild motion sickness to the point where I felt the urge to vomit. I would not recommend anyone listen to the coarse and lewd descriptions of twisted sexual encounters, ESPECIALLY NOT SITTING NEXT TO ONE'S FATHER. My family gave Carl Hiaasen the benefit of the doubt and kept listening, having found some of the character descriptions compelling. But once Mr. Hiaasen resorted to an all-too-detailed description of a character placing a baby rat in another person's mouth and then a careful description of the same character getting off on the fear in a victim's last words as recorded in 911 tapes -- we decided to shut the tape off. To sum up, on a sixteen hour car ride with no other books on tape available, we preferred all of the following to "Sick Puppy": listening to a fuzzy Click and Clack on an NPR station that was clearly out of our radio's range, playing license plate bingo, paying roaming charges to have meaningless chatter on the cell phone, sitting in silence, or listening to the farm report on an AM station.
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Summary: Thanks Hasher!
Review: My good friend Dean Kaplan, who is a hasher through and through bought me this book for my birthday. I had never heard of this author before but I trusted Dean, who is really smart and man pretty. So I read the book and was amazed. Hiaasen is a great author. I don't know why his name is so hard to spell...I mean...what's with the exta "a"? But he's an author so I guess he knows what is best and I should not question him. Go you huskies!
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Summary: A Waste Of Paper, A Waste Of My Time
Review: Some humor, but mostly pretty boring. I had to force myself to continue reading it after two or three chapters.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: As my first Hiaasen book, Sick Puppy did not dissapoint. I was able to live vicariously through Twilly, the protagonist who vows to hurt anyone who trashes our environment. This book was extremely funny, definately poignant, and also education, in that i actually learned about politics from this fiction novel. One warning though- any disgusting murder scenes that might possibly be seen in this book are characteristic to all of his books. Disturbing yes, but still this book is amazing. If you love mother earth and want all the jerks who trash it to pay, definately read this stuff.
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Summary: Enter the twisted mind of an environmentalist
Review: This book is a must for every revengeful environmentalist. It is filled with the evil deeds of politicians and lobbyists and a very environmentally conscious main character who fights back for mother earth, then goes overboard into what some may consider the realm of the psychopath. There are so many plot twists and turns and new, interesting characters popping up throughout the story that it keeps you reading, despite the fact that it is encroaching upon a very predictable ending. So if you have time on your hands, and you are [ticked] off at that litterbug in the car in front of you on the highway, take a while to read this book.
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