 | DrEntropy (40)
04/06/2006 | They're not great literature, but Hiaasen's novels on Florida are hilarious. His novels make excellent travel reading: light-weight, easy reading, but never stupid or boring. Hiassen's characters are comic, surreal, strange and often repulsive; but always fascinating. Florida itself is a character in all his novels, a surreal preview of what the future may look like (gangster-capitalism, immigration, over-crowding, pollution, social polarization, electoral fraud) and Hiassen is its greatest writer-a satirist, of course.
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 | pd (0)
02/09/2004 | Our grandchildren probably won't be reading him, but right now we don't miss a book! By the way, Florida sucks. The mosquitoes are bad, the traffic is terrible and there's a bunch of crime in even the smallest cities. Vacation in Arizona.
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 | Enkidu (38)
01/29/2004 | Legendary for his assaults on Disney, developers, and various other right-wing dimwits. He's a hilarious and very twisted writer; read him if you need some belly-laughs.
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 | BigGuyPI (9)
02/16/2000 | Probably one of the most underated contemporary storytellers there is. Part Elmore Leonard part Hunter S. Thompson, Hiiasen knows how to create colorful characters and give them life. Don't let that awful movie with Demi Moore(Striptease-an excellent Hiiasen book, by the way) keep you from discovering the joys of a Hiiasen novel.
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