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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Hilarious. (And the movie was much less so, as often happens.) (  ) woodge | Nov 20, 2009 |  easy read - not as funny as i had expected (  ) auntycaz | Jul 23, 2009 | Competently written, but not the sort of humor I usually go for. I prefer Dave Barry's essays, which I've always found funnier than this kind of plot-related humor. Tight plot, though! Complicated for a first effort. ( ) kishields | May 31, 2009 | this book is about the wacky adventures of a homeless man and how his life intersects with the mob and the crooked government in Florida. i only read the first 150 pages because the plat did not really hook me. (  ) twrona | Apr 29, 2009 | I've been a Dave Barry fan for a while, so I was curious to see what he would do with an actual novel. The result was pretty fun. The plot was interesting, and he had some nice jabs on society as a whole in there. My only real complaints were that the gags were so visual that they didn't come across as well in prose. You could tell what he was trying to describe, but the timing of it just didn't work out. The other complaint was that I really had trouble keeping all the characters straight. Still, it was quite entertaining, and I'm anxious for another. If you like Elmore Leonard or the like, give this one a try. ( ) nesum | Dec 29, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0425178102, Mass Market Paperback)Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur. Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning storm.Farcical confusion ensues, witnessed by a saintly bum named Puggy, camped in a tree in Arthur's yard. Puggy works at the Jolly Jackal Bar & Grill, which has no grill and actually sells guns and bombs to an offshoot of the Crips and Bloods called the Cruds, and to Penultimate (which plans to conquer Cuba). But when dim thugs Eddie and Snake rob the Jolly Jackal and Arthur tells them it's a Russian mob front selling bombs, the proprietor snorts, "Bombs, pfft! No bombs! Is bar." Can Snake and Eddie spirit a suitcase nuke through Miami, "where most motorists obeyed the traffic and customs of their individual countries of origin"? Can Eliot and cop Monica Rodriguez save the day? And how do the 300-pound hallucinogenic Enemy Toad, the 13-foot-long python Daphne, highway goats, and the Denture Adventure seniors' theme park fit in? Everything fits perfectly, including a few dark passages new to Barry's work. But one warning: if you read this book while drinking milk, at some point it will spurt out of your nostrils. --Tim Appelo (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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