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aravis's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, and Violence
Moderate: Racism, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
tatt_mucker's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
jog2020's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
jimwiedower's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
sacmills's review against another edition
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0
bmpicc's review against another edition
3.0
I listened to this while running and working. I enjoyed it and I did laugh out loud a few times. There were moments when it felt like a male, Southern version of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels. What kept me a little out of it is that I have zero interest in fishing. I also dislike the N word and when you listen to an audiobook you can't gloss over something like that.
“My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he’s fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we’re taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don’t you wish you were here?”
"To Decker it seemed like every passenger in the airplane had turned around to stare at the lunatic in the flowered shower cap."
“My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he’s fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we’re taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don’t you wish you were here?”
"To Decker it seemed like every passenger in the airplane had turned around to stare at the lunatic in the flowered shower cap."
cojack's review against another edition
4.0
Funny, wacky, vintage Hiaasen, peppered with his trademark oddball Florida characters. A fun, fast read. The references and language were a bit dated, as this is from the late '80s.
jeffmauch's review against another edition
4.0
I've seen mention of Hiaasen for a while now for writing interesting, borderline wacky mystery novels and finally picked one up. If "Florida Man" was put into novel form, this would be it. Hiaasen crafts a well written and thought out private eye book here with a cast of characters you could only find in the backwoods of a backwards state. While I honestly found it to be just a bit too weird, that may just be particular to this book and not Hiaasen's writing as a whole. This novel is part of a series that follows the adventures and misadventures of Skink, a supporting character here who has a crazy backstory all his own. The novel here centers around the investigations of multiple murders that are related to bass fishing tournaments and and evangelical television network. I know it sounds like a silly premise, and it is, but its on that sucked me in and surprised me.