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- Publisher: Knopf, Alfred A
- ISBN-10: 0965070581
- ISBN-13: 978-0965070584
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (105 customer reviews)
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From Library Journal
JoLayne Lucks has one of two winning lottery tickets each worth a cool $14 million. She plans to spend it rescuing a local plot of swampland from a strip mall developer. The holders of the other winning ticket, however, are Bode Gazzer and his sidekick, Chubb, who want the whole $28 million. Afire with paramilitary fervor, Bode and Chubb need the cash to bankroll the start-up of the White Clarion Aryans before NATO takes over America with a handicapped parking sticker scam. They steal JoLayne's ticket, but before they can cash it she mounts a hot pursuit with the help of local journalist Tom Krome. As they chase Bode and Chubb through the swamps and sleazy dives, dodging bullets and local religious fanatics, Tom and JoLayne leave a wake of mayhem and hilarity. This is Hiaasen (Naked Came the Manatee, LJ 1/97) at his wacky best?a steamy amalgam of raunch, righteousness, and riotous laughs. Highly recommended.
-?Susan Gene Clifford, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, Cal.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
-?Susan Gene Clifford, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, Cal.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
As soon as an informative headnote warns that ``there is no approved dental use for WD-40,'' you can relax, knowing that you're in for several blissful hours in the hands of a master farceur whose subject this time is what passes in South Florida for providence. Even though she's confirmed the winning numbers on her Lotto ticket, placid veterinary assistant JoLayne Lucks refuses to give an interview to rolling-stone Register features writer Tom Krome. Hoping to rescue the turtles of Simmons Wood from mob-backed development by buying the parcel out of her half of the $28 million jackpot, she doesn't see any point in telling the world she's rich. Then, suddenly, she isn't, because the holder of the other winning ticket, halfwit white supremacist Bodean Gazzer, decides to double his own payout by heisting her ticket. Bode and his sidekick Chub have their own public-spirited vision for the prize: arming the White Rebel Brotherhood (membership 2 and growing) in preparation for the UN-sponsored invasion of the US via all those unused handicapped-parking spaces. Along with the obligatory romantic complications, Hiaasen provides an alarmingly comical parade of spiritual counterparts to the providential nostrum of the Florida lottery: the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the miraculous apostolic turtles who bring nirvana to the features editor sent to retrieve Krome after he takes off with JoLayne in pursuit of the Lotto thieves. Not even Hiaasen (Stormy Weather, 1995, etc.) can sustain this balancing act forever, and eventually it collapses like a house of cards. But for an impossibly long time, the whole wild sideshow seethes and boils with all the grinning vitality of a ``Have a Nice Day'' poster reimagined by Hieronymous Bosch. Just when you think Hiaasen can't outdo himself, he finds more lunatics who just happen to tap into your deepest fears about America. Makes you wonder. (First printing of 200,000; Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection/Quality Paperback Book Club selection) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Lucky me,
By Peggy Sue got Married (Land of peace) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lucky You (Mass Market Paperback)
. . . that I got to read this excellent novel. Warning: If you want a realistic plot, look somewhere else. Hiassen is a masterstoryteller that will give you quirk on top of quirk, the way McCrae does in his "Katzenjammer" or the way Sedaris might in some of his books ("Naked" or "Me Talk Pretty") but Hiassen is more of a novelist. Here's the plan: Take two lottery winners, give them totally different goals, have one of the winners want ALL of it, and add some wacked out KKK-like group to the mix. Sound fantastic? It is. First rate and good stuff, all. If you want great writing and fun, this is the place.
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What would happen if you won the lottery?,
This review is from: Lucky You (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is a funny, lighthearted version of what happens when a huge lottery is split between 2 parties...a couple of right-wing (and somewhat unintelligent) guys, and an envoronmentally friendly woman.There are a number of characters involved, all of whom have their own idiosyncrasies (the man whose religion is to sit in a pond with baby turtles crawling over him, the face of Christ seen in a tar spill on the pavement, etc.) All in all, another great book by Carl Hiaasen!
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Lucky me,
By "paulstridelee" (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lucky You (Mass Market Paperback)
Whenever you've read a lot of books by one author (and Hiaasen has written quite a few), you tend to get nervous. Well, the first three or four were great, but what about this next one, you think to yourself? It's like waiting for lightening to strike--you know it's got to happen some time and you dread it. You KNOW you're going to finally run across a book by this author that you don't like. You KNOW he's finally going to run out of steam.But he doesn't. I'm happy to report that LUCKY YOU is just as good as any of the other Hiaasen books (think SKIN TIGHT or HOOT) and this guy just keeps going like the Energizer bunny. With the same great writing, style, humor, and insight into the south that are found in Jackson McCrae's books (THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD) Hiaasen gives us a wonderful if not disturbing portrait of the wacky characters that make up the southern-most region of our United States. Few living outside this region will recognize that Hiaasen isn't making this stuff up--for some of us, it's too real! All I can say is, buy this book and read it. If you're fortunate to, then . . . Lucky you.
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