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Summary: Another fun read from Dorsey...
Review: A "South Florida" novel about a guy who transfers to Tampa with his company, and starts meeting all sorts of strange Florida neighbors who are nut cases. He finally ends up killing someone inadvertantly, and the dead man's brothers start to come after him. And there are so many other strange subplots that all meet up at the end. Very funny, but very weird...
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Summary: 5-Plus Stars! Funny Funny Funny Funny Funny!!!!!
Review: An insanely twisted tale of how Midwestern milquetoast Jim Davenport moved his family to Triggerfish Lane, anticipating the good life of Florida. However paradise rapidly fades to a distant memory when the reality of the neighborhood sets in. For example his neighbor Jack Terrier commands his dog to defecate on Jim's lawn. Stolen cars abound, because the neighborhood is a natural getaway route for carjackers. Serge, (Dorsey's reoccurring character) Jim's new friend from across the street is a psychopathic serial killer who isn't taking his medication, but of course Jim doesn't know this. Then there's Coleman the idiot, Sharon the cocaine-snorting stripper, an overly aggressive baseball coach, the evil car salesman, the crazy homeless people, the dope smoking college students, the oversexed pensioners, the substitute teacher with a grudge and the Fourth of July party that erupts into violence, death and a city wide disaster.And if all that doesn't make you want to go out and get this laugh-a-minute book, I don't know what will. Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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Summary: Reading for the fun of it at its best
Review: Dorsey is loads of fun, like Hiaasen and others who write the wacky Florida mysteries. I enjoy reading them when I need a breather from more demanding reading. His books go down like cotton candy, light and sweet, and highly aerated.
This zany work introduces a dizzying array of characters -- all misdirected or misused, drugged or crazed -- who collide with one another and form unlikely alliances. The plot leads them to a climax beyond any you've read, one that generates more fireworks than you'll see in the biggest July 4th bashes. Keeping people straight can be tricky at times, since they all spin out of control, careening toward their explosive rendezvous.
This is satire raised to absurdity. You'll smile, you'll laugh, you'll love it for what it is, entertaining escapism.
But ... let's be judicious and discriminating with our ratings, please. A book, like a movie, can be great fun without being great art. This is an example. For this reason, I cannot in good faith give this 5 stars when I've given a finely written, fully realized, and well-developed work such as REMEMBERING BLUE by Connie May Fowler 4 stars.
This is a hoot of a good book, for easy and hilarious entertainment.
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Summary: Move Over, Carl, Tim is Taking Over Florida Fun Fiction!
Review: He just keeps getting better and better, and was really good to start... A bit noir in spots, Dorsey has humor dripping from each page and is marvelous at keeping the pace and the sub-plots speeding down the track. "Triggerfish Twist" is the latest and greatest with his anti-hero, Serge, still at the helm. You could start reading him in any order, but the chronology of the books do give those ordered readers some tongue-in-cheek smugness that
follows with the insider connections of the prior mayhem... "Flordia Roadkill" was first, then "The Hammerhead Ranch Motel", and "Orange Crush" the third leading to the latest... Wild rides all and will not disappoint. If you like Carl Hiassen's stuff, you'll love Dorsey's wit and roll.
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Summary: Dorsey knows funny
Review: It has to be difficult to write a LIKEABLE homicidal maniac. But that's just what Tim Dorsey has manged to do in Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, and now Triggerfish Twist. This time Serge is back together with old pals Coleman and Sharon the summer before their wacky adventures in Florida Roadkill. We are treated to a little more of the lighter side of Serge as he passes the summer playing house in a typical Tampa neighborhood. Of course, if Serge, Coleman and Sharon are around, then you know things will be anything but typical as plotlines swirl wildly around the neighborhood until crashing together at Jim Davenport's Fourth of July party. If you enjoyed any of the previous three books by Dorsey, this one should be no exception.
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Summary: Twisted!
Review: Its twisted, but so good! Its scary that the main character is so appealing, but he is! Can't wait for a new one by Tim Dorsey!
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Summary: Everything but the kitchen sink
Review: Just as I was lamenting my completion of the final Douglas Adams book (see other review) along comes my annual literary fix of Tim Dorsey. "Triggergfish Twist" kept me laughing, chortling, guffawing, and well... generally tittering like a whackaloon. This H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S novel has everything: a mime, Tom Jones music, The Beam of Death, Trivial Pursuit, Ernie and Bert the homeless Christ and Antichrist, a well placed fade-out, a Crisco based life form, Velveeta, chicken salad sandwiches, Alsatian yodeling, thoroughbred ferrets and everyone's favorite encyclopedic-homicidal-lunatic Serge A. Storms! I laughed. I cried. I got anxious and hysterical ... but then I've been on an emotional roller coaster since age 11.... I get like that sometimes. "Triggerfish Twist" is the best Tim Dorsey novel so far! SUPREMELY RECOMMENDED! Read this one! Pretty please! With sugar on top!
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Summary: Triggerfish Twist
Review: Serge A. Storms is by far the most hillarious character ever written! Tim Dorsey takes you on the ride of your life through the lives of the most disfunctional people on the planet! I laughed so hard, I cried.
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Summary: this one starts to turn me off from tim dorsey
Review: this is a messy and pointless novel. simply could not finish it.
very messy and random, and the plot is kinda boring. well, i've had enough of this serge character and would like turn to hiassen again and never look back.
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Summary: Another winner from Dorsey
Review: This is my third Dorsey novel and he delivers with this one too. Dorsey is a lot like Hiaasen, only with a significantly more violent and demented twist. People are always getting bumped off in his novels, often in very creative ways. Readers of his Florida Roadkill and Hammerhead Ranch Motel books will be delighted to find that Serge and Coleman are back in this novel, which is actually a prequel to these books. Serge fans won't be disappointed as Serge is up to his usual frenetic and frenzied antics and also bumps off at least one deserving scumbag in his usual creative way. Coleman's character gets some hilarious fleshing out and development here, more so than in the previous books. And Sharon the gorgeous cocaine-snorting floozy/nympho makes up the threesome in this novel. The novel is very fast-paced and there is hardly a dull moment during the entire book, and Dorsey builds all the interelated threads and characters up to a spectacular and satisfying climax. Definitely another must-read for the Dorsey fans out there.
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