Tourist Season

Disappointing. And my least favorite of Hiaasen's books so far. Tourist Season was somehow missing the charm that makes his other books so fun. A big problem was that it went on far too long before the author finally pulled the life support on this thing. I kept thinking it was almost over -and it wa......more

Reading this for my book club and, while I have read a few Hiaasen books before, I have always wanted to go back and start at the beginning. Hiaasen has a unique style that I think is easy to either love or hate. For me, it is very odd and unrealistic, but it adds a nice bit of crazy humor to the st......more

3.5 stars Carl Hiaasen's comic satiric novels center around some atrocity humans are inflicting on the state of Florida. In Hiaasen's first novel, 'Tourist Season' (1986), a fed-up journalist decides to drive tourists and snowbirds out of Florida, so developers will stop building the condos and hotel......more

2.5 stars. I believe this is Hiaasen's first novel (1986) and it reads like a first stab. He tried to cram waaay too much into this novel full of craziness and over-the-top scenarios. I did like the main character, Brian Keyes, who had quit his job as a reporter to become a private investigator. The......more

4.5 stars, loss of 1/2 star for outrageously callous attitude about the death of the tourists, which I know was at the heart of the novel, but author enjoyed it just a little too much. One of the first Hiaasen books I encountered, and still stands up. A wild ride with looney tunes terrorists, a plet......more