Nature Girl
by Carl Hiaasen
Book Summary Information
Author: Carl HiaasenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 0446400661
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780446400664
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Nature Girl
Book Review: Hiaasen's Nadir... By A Lot!
Summary: 1 Stars
First off, let me tell you how much I like Carl Hiaasen and how much I like his writing and anticipate his every newest release (I bought the higher-priced hardcover but had to let it "age" before reading). Well the answer is a whole helluva lot and a whole helluva lot! This of course, leaves me here scratching my head wondering what the hell has happened and just what exactly I've just been through??!! "Nature Girl" smells BAD, worse, in fact, than "Striptease" which says a lot! It's hard to believe the same humorist genius who wrote "Skinny Dip", "Lucky You", "Sick Puppy" and "Double Whammy" (amongst others) wrote this THING! "Nature Girl" is so patently un-funny it beggars belief! Instead, it is puerile, angry, mean-spirited rant and is peopled by a cast which is so entirely un-sympathetic, so devoid of any dimension, it was a rigorous trial ploughing to the ho-hum denouement, reading of the collective fate of a cast of characters I cared NOTHING about! Finishing this book was more a chore or obligation, to what I don't know; probably to be a completist, now I've read 'em all, too bad I can't say "except 'Nature Girl"! Oh well, at least it has a cool Charles Burns cover illustration, it's ONLY redeeming point! Get it together Carl Hiaasen, I'd hate to have this be the last book of yours I enjoyed!
Summary of Nature Girl
Honey Santana-impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes"-has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She's taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie-the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer-into the wilderness of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands?for a gentle lesson in civility. What she doesn't know is that she's being followed by her Honey-obsessed former employer, Piejack (whose mismatched fingers are proof that sexual harassment in the workplace is a bad idea). And he doesn't know he's being followed by Honey's still-smitten former drug-running ex-husband, Perry, and their wise-and-protective-way-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old-son, Fry. And when they all pull up on Dismal Key, they don't know they're intruding on Sammy Tigertail, a half white-half Seminole failed alligator wrestler, trying like hell to be a hermit despite the Florida State coed who's dying to be his hostage . . .??????? Will Honey be able to make a mensch of a "greedhead"? Will Fry be able to protect her from Piejack-and herself? Will Sammy achieve his true Seminole self? Will Eugenie ever get to the beach? Will the Everglades survive the wild humans? All the answers are revealed in the delectably outrageous mayhem that propels this novel to its Hiaasen-of-the-highest-order climax.
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