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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Though this book is funny and jam-packed with quirky facts and circumstances, I was a little let down by the rambling, disjointed feeling that it left me with. The sequence of events surrounding the loss of 5 million dollars was clever , but this sequence was never put in any sort of logical order. Hell, it wasn't even recapped at the end of the book. Hell, I still don't really know whose money it was and why it was in a strange car. The characters were great, the dialogue funny, but I really needed to make myself a timeline or something. (  ) MissTeacher | Sep 28, 2009 |  More sex, drugs and rock-and-roll marked Tim Dorsey’s second installment of the Serge A. Storm series. In Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Dorsey picked up where his first book, Florida Roadkill left off. Serge was still hunting down the suitcase with the $5 million, and a band of merry misfits intentionally (or unintentionally) got in his way. Not even a powerful hurricane could sway Serge from his quest for more riches. Like the previous book, Hammerhead Ranch Motel was not for the faint of heart. There’s enough marijuana, cocaine and illicit sex to sink a boat. Where this book sparkled was the depiction of local landmarks and quirky news stories that showed the underbelly of the Sunshine State. Hammerhead Ranch Motel was a wild ride – a fast, poolside read – that had me laughing at parts and groaning in others. Again, I could only recommend these books to Floridians who can appreciate the humor and wackiness that is Florida. I would also recommend putting some time between reading Dorsey books. They are a bit formulaic, and readers may enjoy them individually if read a month or two apart. (  ) mrstreme | Apr 14, 2009 | This is Tim Dorsey's sequel to Florida Roadkill. Serge Storms is back in this book still chasing the suitcase containing $5 Million in laundered drug-money. Early in the novel Serge gets his hands on the case, just to lose it to car thieves. The case continues to transfer hands until it makes it to the hands of drug-lord Zargozsa. The owner of the Hammerhead Ranch Motel. We follow Serge as he kills his way along the route taken by the case and meets up with zany companions along the way. The plot reaches its climax as the protaganists gather in the bar of the Hammerhead Ranch to wait out a hurricane and see who will end up with the cash. (  ) mramos | Aug 23, 2007 | This one ranks right up there with Roadkill. So far this is the last one I have read. I started the 3rd in the series but couldn't get into it. All the sarcasm & surprises were just too much this time (3rd book). It left me feeling like I'd been hit by a semi. Maybe some other time. (  ) buckeyeaholic | Jul 11, 2007 | Writing in the Bunch-of-Crazy-People-Who-Live-In-South-Florida genre, Tim Doresy is like Carl Hiaasen with a mean streak. ( ) fingerpost | May 18, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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In his first book, Florida Roadkill, Dorsey introduced us to several characters who are still at large as his second story begins. Serge A. Storms is a spree killer and Florida history buff, still looking for the five million dollars that's stashed in the trunk of a Chrysler--unbeknownst to the driver--somewhere in the state. Johnny Vegas is a playboy who, because catastrophic events always seem to get in the way, has yet to lose his virginity. Also along for the zany ride is 90-year-old Mrs. Edna Ploomfield, who blows away a man delivering her flowers and chocolates; a DJ who changed his name legally to Boris the Hateful Piece of BLEEP so that he would not be BLEEPED on the air every time he used the name; and Safety Officer Chester "Porkchop" Dole who watches the monitors on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Along with a dancing Chihuahua who forecasts the weather, the Diaz Boys, Harvey Fiddlebottom, undercover cops, and a variety of oddballs, they will congregate in or around the seediest place never to have been shut down, the Hammerhead Ranch Motel on the Gulf of Mexico. There, they will play out their lunacy as Hurricane Rolando-berto bears down on them. This is a wonderful summertime read, relentlessly funny and impossible to put down. --Otto Penzler
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