- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (Mar 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446677167
- ISBN-13: 978-0446677165
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 2.9 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #330,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Hiaasen's latest seriocomic Florida thriller spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
From Library Journal
Take one devastating Florida hurricane, a New York couple on their honeymoon, a skull-juggling but sensitive guy, one former governor turned Everglades hermit, two small-time con artists, a corrupt building inspector, two state troopers, a hapless insurance agent, and what do you have? The recipe for Hiaasen's (Native Tongue, LJ 9/1/91) sixth novel, a delightful romp that is by turns hilarious and moving. These strange characters maneuver through a broken landscape as if born to it, and the author's control of both style and narrative keeps the novel from slipping into silliness. The crimes plotted are minor aspects of a fiction that explores the intersection of the grotesque and the human. Buy wherever good fiction is read.
-?A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-?A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Wacky, wacky stuff,
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This review is from: Stormy Weather (Mass Market Paperback)
"Stormy Weather" is just plain wacky. Carl Hiaasen deftly casts a diverse group of characters whose only common bond is being in post-hurricane ravaged Florida. But this bond inescapably links these characters in a land of moral destitution and the book details their life changing and in some cases life ending experiences. This book walks the fine line between zany and bizarre; going just far enough to test the even the limits of fiction without going as far as insult. It keeps you laughing throughout the outlandish journey. I don't think I could stomach a steady diet of Hiaasen tales, but it hits the spot for those looking for a lite but entertaining snack. A very good story and inventive fiction. I recommend this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
That's their nature,
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This review is from: Stormy Weather (Mass Market Paperback)
Do you like "crazy" in your books? Carl Hiaasen is one of a select company of writers that dishes up "crazy" all the way. The setting for Stormy Weather is southern Florida immediately after a devastating hurricane. Entire neighborhoods are wrecked, in some cases due to reckless disregard of building codes. Looters, rubberneckers and opportunists are drawn to Dade County in droves, showing the worst in human nature--but so hilariously.Hiaasen's cast of characters are all outrageous in one way or another, and their stories inevitably intersect: * Max and Bonnie Lamb, honeymooners from New York; their young marriage goes off the rails when Max is abducted while avidly making vacation videos of the destruction. * Skink, a one-eyed ex-governor of Florida who got offside with developers, quit his job, and went troppo; Skink abducts Max because he was outraged by the ad man's voyeurism. * Augustine Herrera, a skull-juggling coma survivor searching for his uncle's escaped exotic animal collection, rescues the stranded Bonnie Lamb and wins her over with his rough charm. * Snapper and Edie, a couple of grifters teaming up to commit insurance fraud, pick the wrong scammer to scam; their plan escalates wildly out of control, as you know from the beginning it will. * A spectacularly corrupt building inspector trying to do "damage control" by sacrificing animals to the Santeria god Chango; Avila is gored by a reluctant goat and later reinvents himself as a Cuban "rafter." The action takes place in hotels and roofless houses, in a remote bivouac in the Keys, and in the post-apocalyptic city streets and highways. The characters inflict outrageous damage on each other, but in the end most of the "good guys" go on to rebuild new and better lives, while the "bad guys" come to fitting ends. Hiaasen has a killingly funny way of delivering wry, sarcastic paragraphs that cut to the quick of human nature. I listened to the audio, narrated by George Wilson whose gravelly rendition amped up the acerbic humor with every intonation. Read or listen, your choice, but if you like the work of Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, or Kurt Vonnegut, you'll probably love this book. I certainly did. Linda Bulger, 2010
5.0 out of 5 stars
new levels of wackiness,
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This review is from: Stormy Weather (Mass Market Paperback)
This is wild and wacky stuff if I've ever seen it, with more than a tinge of backswamp, corrupt characters. I like it best when the animals--human and otherwise--get loose because of the hurricane, and true Jumanji-like madness ensues, in a posthurripocalyptic stew of Shakespearean insanity. Greed, corruption, lust, betrayal....plus some really shady insurance deals! Overall, great stuff for the reader, not so great for the fictional insurance companies. Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.
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