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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Mildly entertaining. Quick read -- very hyper main character. Had it figured out mostly before it was 2/3 over. (  ) andsoitgoes | Sep 2, 2009 |  Review located at http://pilethemon.blogspot.com/2009/0... (  ) liketheday | Jul 19, 2009 | Tone of language: deadpan, realistic, fast-moving Characters: Fearless and impulsive, the main characters remain incorruptible and innocent despite the questionable behaviors they find they have to resort to in this insane world. Plot twists: The main character, who is psychopathic, forces the plot to develop in ways that reflect his no-holds-barred, unpredictable personality. Pace: Fast: without a moment's hesitation, Dorsey's anti-hero concocts and executes his schemes. Values: People who hurt others are a detriment and insignificant, and their lives can be ended. Sexuality: Sex is a casual matter especially because it doesn't occur enough to make a big deal out of it. Background research: Miami history, popular culture, rock music. Ending: Fairness rules, but it comes about in coincidental ways you would never anticipate. Objectionable to any any group: spies, the Mafia, Cubans Flaws: Did Lou have to transform her self-serving promiscuity to fall in love with Sergio and remain faithful for so many years? (  ) unrequitedlibrarian | Jul 14, 2009 | Cadillac Beach by Tim Dorsey (2004). General fiction. Humour, satire, crime in Florida. Serge Storm (Protagonist from other works of Tim Dorsey), slightly unbalanced criminel tries to start a tour service in Florida while investigating a 50 year old crime, poking fun at Castro and bring The Today Show back to Florida. Conducting a tour for a hastily decimating group of condiment salesmen who accidently killed a highranking mobster going into witness protection, while investigating the connection between a huge jeweller heist and Serges grandfather, being chased by the mob, the FBI and CIA, as well as an unknown killer. Serge is his usual irrepressible psychotic OCD self, and the story just as highspeed and convoluted as the rest of Tim Dorseys novels. Think Hiaasen on amphetamine. Great fun if you like over the top, but not graphic violence. (  ) amberwitch | Jul 19, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0060520469, Hardcover)Everyone out of the water! Serge A. Storms is back! The one-man crime spree hits no speed bumps as he swings through Tampa, Disney World, and parts south before settling down in Miami Beach to team up with a former sidekick and launch his long-overdue offbeat travel service. It's a labor of love as Serge forces customers to confront the underbelly of the Sunshine State's past and present. Some clients get it; others run for their lives. No matter. Bullets fly, cars crash, bodies pile up, fireballs reach into the sky, local lore is recited. The tour continues. But wait! There's more! Our overachieving antihero has a full to-do list, and he multitasks during the tourist juggernaut to battle the Palermo crime family, mystery assassins, local police, the FBI, the CIA, Fidel Castro, and telemarketers. Whew! That's plenty! . . . No, it's not!Serge is also out to solve a forty-year-old mystery involving the infamous "Murph the Surf" gem heist. Could this be what got his grand-father killed? So we jump into the time machine to meet his eccentric granddad, Sergio, who is running a small-time bookie operation in 1964 Miami Beach, a golden time and place popu-lated by the Beatles, Cassius Clay, James Bond, Jackie Gleason, and Flipper. . . . Back to live action! Serge and his customers have become the hunted, hopscotching through a series of famous hotel rooms. But Serge tells them not to worry. He has a master plan, which is about to unfold in all of its insane glory . . . on Cadillac Beach! (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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