Strip Tease

Kinky off-the-wall hilarity! If you've ever read a travelogue by Bill Bryson then you'll know what I mean when I say it's possible to be hilarious and entirely serious at the same time. You'll also understand what I mean when I suggest that Carl Hiaasen is to fiction and mystery novels as Bill Bryson......more

The epilogue alone is side splitting hilarity and priceless-read this to get away from the winter blues !!......more

I read this book when it first came out, back before they made a movie out of it, and I loved it. Either my tastes have changed over the years, or this book really wasn't as funny as I initially thought it was. In this second go around with this novel, I found the characters to be one dimensional; fl......more

It's more or less impossible to say something about this book and not mention the film, so I'll just get that out of the way. It (the film) was (I think) undeservedly bad mouthed by critics and some public alike. The only major problem I remember having with it was that Rhames was miscast as Shad (b......more

This is my third Carl Hiaasen novel. I'm becoming a fan. I haven't seen the Demi Moore movie based on this book, but I doubt the movie captured the humor and clever interweaving of so many characters in half a dozen subplots the way Hiaasen does in yet another novel about that weirdest of states, Fl......more