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Summary: A Killer In Florida A.G Per.7
Review: This book is great because the plot is very suspenseful. Three crooks steal five million dollars and hide it in a strangers car. Most of the book is the adventures of the three crooks and the money. During the book, the crooks are addicted to drugs. That is the only bad part of the book. If you get past all the drugs, you will enjoy this book a lot. Then you will not be able to put the book down because it is so good. The setting is in multiple cities in Florida. The characters include two best friends from high school, three crooks, and a dentist. There are some other characters in this hilarious book, but they do not play major parts.I recommend this book to anyone over the age of 11, partly because of the drugs. If you are above the age of 11, go out and read this book today
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Summary: As wacky but more violent than Hiaasen
Review: Florida Roadkill is about as good a substitute for Hiaasen as you will find. If you've read all of Hiaasen's and are looking for more, you won't be disappointed in this book, or it's sequel, Hammerhead Ranch Motel. Dorsey even seems to be giving Hiaasen a nod because the main character, Serge, is just as crazy as Skink (only more diabolical) and the title seems to recall Skink's roadkill diet.The resemblance between the two writers is perhaps not surprising since they both write for south Florida papers, Dorsey in Tampa and Hiaasen with the Miami Herald, I think. Anyway, Dorsey is a lot like Hiaasen only with a significantly more violent twist. People are always getting bumped off, often in very creative ways. There are lots more bad guys in his books, and very few good guys. The bad guys therefore go around scamming, duping, and otherwise preying on each other, and as we all know, there's no honor among thieves. So the bodies pile up like dominoes as the plot progresses. Dorsey slso comes up with some of the most entertaining one-liners in the business. For example, he describes the people in a Florida Greyhound bus station like this: "The inability to master life hung in the air like a toxic mist." I didn't mind the fact that there is no ending and the book continues with Hammerhead Ranch Motel. If I have one quip with Dorsey, it's that everyone seems to get shot in the face. Sharon the cocaine-snorting floozy shoots two Canadian tourists in the face early on. Coleman gets his face shot off by the three Costa Gordons with silenced Uzi's. Then one of the Costa Gordons gets shot in the mouth by police officer Tchoupitoulas. Charles Saffron shoots the guy the Costa Gordons were roughing up about 6 times in the face, surprising even the Costa Gordons (a small island in the Carribean) with his enthusiastic viciousness. Once in a while, someone should get shot somewhere else. (Serge apparently gets shot in the chest instead of the face or head, because Dorsey can't kill him off since he needs to appear in the sequel.) Other than the obsession with people getting their face's shot off, I liked this book.
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Summary: Florida Roadkill-Tim Dorsey
Review: I think this book was really good. Once you get by all the drugs, it really is a good book. The plot is great. It makes you keep guessing. When you think you know what is going to happen, something totally bizzare happens. I recommend this book to anyone over the age of 14.
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Summary: A Good Read for the Road if you have time to Kill
Review: Finding a book to read on the 30 minute commuter bus that keeps you entertained isn't always easy. "Florida Roadkill" made my commute much more enjoyable for three days. Former Tampa journalist took a gamble and left a steady paycheck for freelance writing. Looks like he made a smart leap. The characters in Florida Road Kill are hilarious and are ready to leap off the pages. Dorsey's tale probably won't do much for Florida tourism but his familiarity of the Sunshine State made me remark "Hey I know where that place is!" more than once. You can call it a dark comedy, highway treasure hunt where the only seemingly redeeming characters get the big payoff...or do they? Regretfully, Dorsey leaves the reader to buy his next book to find out how this one ends. I don't like this type of style but I guess if my paycheck depended on a series of semi-successful books, I might write like that, too! This book would make a great independent film. If there are any student filmmakers out there, check this read out!
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Summary: Amusing enough, but derivative. . .
Review: As a fan of the "South Florida crazy" genre, as typified by Carl Hiaasen, I looked forward to reading this book. Sad to say, though the story did turn out to be mildly entertaining, I was overall disappointed. The book was strictly a Hiaasen knock-off, and suffered from a serious sense of dislocation. What Mr. Dorsey tried to do is relocate the action from the Miami area to the west coast of Florida, an area that he is most familiar with as a former columnist with the Tampa Tribune. But, to anyone familiar with the demographics of Florida, the translation does not work. East Florida is just naturally zanier than West Florida!! (And I say this as a long time resident of West Florida. It is neither good nor bad, just a statement of fact.) The result was a storyline that was contrived. The heroes, or "good guys" were well defined and are truly likeable guys, but the villians were stock characters from Hiaasen (though a little less grotesque) and the situations forced. The only person who can attempt to mimic Carl Hiaasen is Dave Barry, as he did in Big Trouble. He can get away with it because, after all, he is Dave Barry! I'm not sorry I read this book, and will read the follow-up, Hammerhead Hotel, though I will wait for it in paperback.
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Summary: Reader's review of Florida Roadkill
Review: Florida Roadkill starts out humorously but is hard to follow with too many interrelated subplots. Its ending is unbelievable and by mid-book I was bored enough to read the last chapter and put the book out for recycling to the nearest convalescent hospital. Is is violent and parts of it are too viscious to be plausible. Perhaps plausability is not necessary in this type of crime fiction.
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Summary: War And Peace In Paradise
Review: If Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Hunter S. Thompson, and Leo Tolstoy got together to write a crime novel set in Florida, this is what they might come up with. If you like over-the-top satirical work, you'll love this--if not you'll puke. It's a trip.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Tim Dorsey is out of his friggin' mind! Why the book business doesn't put out more whacked and colorful satires like this is beyond me. Thank G-d someone's behind Dorsey, 'cause this thing's a major, entertaining chuckle.
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Summary: sometimes fun, fast-paced, but not a must-read
Review: I checked this book out based on a review I saw featured on Amazon.com. I thought it would be a richly written mystery, and funny also. It is funny sometimes, and fast-paced, but it is also under-written to the point that it's hard to differentiate between characters or care what they do. Maybe I'm under-read, and it's a fault on my part that I like to be able to picture main characters, or maybe that's part of the fatalistic negativity of the book, but even though it was a fun read, I think I could have spent my time better
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Summary: Terrible Terrible Novel
Review: If you think that WWF is good drama with interesting characters than this book is for you. There is barely a semblance of a plot, the characters are not developed beyond any stereotype of good vs. bad, and the book seems to exist in order to describe very very non-creative ways to kill people. With a tag line of "There are only two good guys and one of them is {gasp} a lawyer." this author is obviously pandering to the lowest most uneducated group of American culture.
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