Tourist Season
by Carl Hiaasen
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Author: Carl HiaasenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-09
ISBN: 0446695718
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: A Modern Pop Crime Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Fans of crime and popular fiction can rejoice in Carl Hiaasen's excellent novel Tourist Season. Much, much darker than his later works - you can tell that he's passionate about Florida's landscape - and yet entirely accessible by adults looking for a good read, Tourist Season delivers in all ways it should.
Sure, the romantic subplot seems a bit forced, but it's still entertaining. The characters are ALL interesting, regardless of their quirks. They're all very well drawn, if a bit caricaturish in the end, and they work.
Tourist Season is also one of Hiaasen's shorter works, so the prose seems cut with a straight razor, moving well into the story as early as possible without losing the reader. There's not a lot of unnecessary backstory. In fact, there's just enough to make you care about the characters before you get pulled along into the depths of the beautiful Florida landscape.
What really makes the novel hum, however, is the slight lesson running underneath the story. Hiaasen clearly wants the reader to understand that the relationship between the story and his intentions are symbiotic, so the ending seems a little more preachy than it really should.
But, overall, the book is absolutely great. A spectacular read for those who have read all the Elmore Leonard they care to and need something funnier.
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The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.Comic Books
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