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Nature Girl [Abridged] [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

de Carl Hiaasen (Author), Jane Curtin (Reader)
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Like the prolific animal and insect life of the Everglades, Hiaasen's latest contains a cacophony of voices that clash with one another yet come together in the end to form an unique world. Hiaasen's novels compare favorably to the films of Robert Altman, as the author uses an ensemble approach rather than relying on one story. Adams is enthusiastically up to Hiaasen's hijinks, finding the right note for every character. Particularly good is her rendition of 12-year-old Fry, who stretches his vowels for emphasis and makes every sentence sound like a possible question. Piejack, the local looney fishmonger, and Honey, a borderline personality unable to overlook any slight, are performed with twangy gusto. And then there are the Texans, Boyd and his reluctant girlfriend, Eugenie, who bring another set of accents into the mix. In a wonderful moment on the last disk, Adams hilariously reproduces the muffled sentences of a person who has had her jaws wired shut. Adams's brisk style is perfect for Hiaasen's witty romp through the Everglades.
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Carl Hiaasen fills his novels with some of the strangest characters in fiction--and makes them work. NATURE GIRL is set in the Florida beyond Miami and Disney World, where people like Honey Santana and half-Seminole Sammy Tigertail live quiet, peculiar existences. Night telemarketer Boyd Shreave has insulted Honey with a real estate phone pitch, and she plots a bizarre revenge that brings the three characters together. Narrator Lee Adams adeptly performs the many roles in the book and makes them all seem real, though her teenager is a bit over the top in vapidness. Listeners will hate and love the appropriate people, all the time rooting for the quirky losers. M.S. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 disapointing, Juil 17 2008
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Ce commentaire est de: Nature Girl (Paperback)
This was the first time I have read a novel from Carl Hiaasen. This book gave off a weird vibe.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Not Hiaasen's best, Oct. 23 2007
Ce commentaire est de: Nature Girl (Paperback)
I loved Hiaasen's early books, but this one leaves me cold. I'm probably getting a little tired of the recipe, and I was thoroughly put off by the author's obviously misinformed description of bipolar disorder. I do realize that this is not a psychological novel, but when a best-selling novelist who presumably has access to ample resources apparently fails to perform even the most basic research before slapping a diagnosis on his main character, it strikes me as shoddy work indeed.

Hiaasen fans will probably want to revisit "Native Tongue". New Hiaasen readers would be better advised to start with "Native Tongue".
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Extreme Satirical Jabs at Self-Satisfaction, Déc 19 2006
Ce commentaire est de: Nature Girl (Hardcover)

If you are familiar with Carl Kiassen's earlier novels, you know that he loves to take an ordinary event that we pretty much ignore, whether it be watching someone littering or wasting resources, and propose an extremely activist reaction that sets off a series of pratfalls and dominos toppling over that create more complications. That familiar formula is employed again in Nature Girl. This time, Mr. Hiaasen takes aim at dinnertime telemarketers who are offering services and products of dubious value.

Honey Santana, who hears musical static in her head even when there's no music playing, does something you wouldn't do: She actually picks up telephone calls at dinnertime. Then, if it's a telemarketer, she gives the person a hard time. When she shoves back at Boyd Shreave who's pushing undeveloped land in northern Florida, Shreave pops and makes a derogatory remark. Honey isn't going to take that kind of behavior sitting down, and she begins to plot her revenge.

Like a modern-day, slightly cracked Rosalind (from As You Like It), Honey figures out who Shreave is and lures him into coming to Florida for a "free vacation" which entails staying in her double-wide and taking kayaks out into the Everglades towards Dismal Key. Shreave brings along his lover, a fellow telemarketer named Eugenie Fonda, who is quickly bored by Shreave and the "vacation." In the background, Boyd's wife is onto him and has hired a private investigator to trail Boyd around to get compromising photographs that seem to turn his wife on.

Honey is a single mom with a single son who causes her to worry too much. She's recently lost her job due to belting her boss who gave her a top-side squeeze where he shouldn't have been squeezing. Soon, the boss has reasons to be upset after someone sends goons to work him over in a most unusual fashion. After a mix-up at the hospital, the boss has more reasons to wonder what might be coming next. Honey's son is always concerned when Honey goes on a rampage, and her ex-husband is leery of aiding and abetting these forays.

Independently, Sammy Tigertail, a half-Seminole, finds himself with a corpse on his hands and a desire to stay out of the limelight. So he heads for the Everglades to keep a low profile.

Like a chain reaction, these characters and many more collide in the Everglades in virtually nonstop action and mix-ups as allies, enemies, and strangers bump into each other and shift roles almost as frequently as most people change clothing. While there, you'll think you are back with Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream as attraction begins to work in unexpected . . . and often undesired . . . ways. A few bashes in the head (and other places) cause minds to be changed, and only one life is left pretty unaffected by all this. You'll have to read the book to see who remains constant.

Unlike his earlier books where the misbehavior that triggers a reaction seems pretty undesirable, it's hard to get worked up about telemarkers pushing real estate. That premise seems just like an excuse to get the plot going. The plot itself twists and turns beyond what's needed to be entertaining . . . and stretches quite hard to provide guffaws and belly laughs. It's as though Shakespeare wrote all of his lines for the fool.

If you need a good laugh, you'll enjoy the book. But it's not as good as the usual Carl Hiaasen novel.
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Wonderful book I am so glad that he is back writing for adults again.
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