Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season: A Novel

Pros: Enthralling, funny, can't put it down book

Cons: Hiaasens books always end too soon

The Bottom Line: If you hate the idea of a timeshare condominum, you will love Carl Hiaasen

Review: Brian Keyes is a great reporter/photographer, but when a story turns out to be about someone he knows, life through the lens has lost it's appeal. Brian turns to a new career as a private detective and is soon caught up in a very strange case indeed....

Pros: pointed and inventive

Cons: macabre violence is still violence

The Bottom Line: later Hiaasen novels are more fun, but his themes were there in the first one

Review: My introduction to the zany but very pointed South Florida fication of Carl Hiaasen was Stormy Weather. Reading it on the flight home from Miami, I often laughed out loud, puzzling fellow passengers. I picked up Lucky You, another ...

Pros: witty, inventive concept;

Cons: gratuitous violence, stupid characters

The Bottom Line: Carl Hiaasen's first novel showed promise of better things to come; read it for historical significance but don't expect great things.

Review: "They call it 'Paradise, the place to be' ...Call some place 'Paradise'; Kiss it goodbye." (Don Henley)

Our US population is undeniably mobile: the most recent statistic I read claimed that the average American moves once every five years....