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This story is best known as a bad Demi Moore movie, which is a pity. It’s not my favorite Hiaasen book but it’s well worth reading if you like this sort of thing, which is wonderfully described by a reviewer at Amazon (see link below): As in all Hiaasen’s tales, the climax is upbeat for the heroes while the villains reap their twisted, greatly-deserved kharma.
In a nutshell, a likeable and sympathetic stripper gets in over her head with some shady characters, and some faces familiar to Hiaasen fans help her set things right. Perhaps more than others, this book casts Florida politics in a very unflattering (but apparently accurate) light.
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Dave Barry’s first fictional novel is a wacky-south-Florida crime story in the tradition of Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard. It’s a very entertaining story, perhaps a bit complicated and not quite as funny as you might expect from Barry, but well worth reading nonetheless, especially for fans of the genre.
The story is being made into a movie with huge names — tim allen, dennis farina, janeane garofalo, jason lee, rene russo, stanley tucci…
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A NYT bestseller, Incident at Twenty-Mile is one of the few Westerns I’ve ever read. I’m not a fan of the genre, but I found this book highly recommended, and I agree with the praise. It’s really more of an adventure story set within the American West, and in fact I’d wager that fans of the Western genre might like this book less than people who generally do not read Westerns.
See the Amazon link below for a nice plot summary and a debate (by reader/reviewiers) about the book’s appeal.
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The fourth installment in Rucker’s “Ware Tetralogy,” Realware works as a standalone novel — fortunate for me because I haven’t read the other three.
It was somewhat annoying to read words not explained in the text (uvvy, sporehead, wowo, gimmie), but this isn’t unusual in the cyberpunk tradition. It all makes sense after a while.
The story is huge in plot, in words, in characters, and in ideas. It is a fulfilling, immersive journey, likely to be enjoyed by fans of cyberpunk and science fiction.
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Vanished is a sort of supernatural thriller. It opens with a compelling science-fiction-esque scene — a woman vanishes in front of her husband’s eyes — and then widens into a larger tale by threading together a number of disparate stories.
The tale involves dolphin intelligence, interspecies communication, teleportation, the Philadelphia experiment (!), and ties them all up with believable science. It’s a great, compelling read.
In my opinion the story disintegrates toward the end. I don’t fault MacGregor for this — the ending is viable, but not very satisfying. I still recommend the book for anyone with an interest in wildlife (especially dolphins) or the paranormal.
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