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If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, best-selling novels, think again. Dance of the Reptiles collects the best of Hiaasen's Miami Herald columns, which lay bare the stories - large and small - that demonstrate anew that truth is far stranger than fiction.
Hiaasen offers his commentary - indignant, disbelieving, sometimes righteously angry, and frequently hilarious - on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system as well as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Bernie Madoff's trial, and the shenanigans of the recent presidential elections. Whether or not you have read Carl Hiaasen before, you are in for a wild ride.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 42 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 28, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HFXXOYY
The author is a widely read columnist for the notoriously liberal Miami Herald. Fittingly, liberals will love this book ... conservatives not so much. The huge political divide in America is the real tragedy. If we could only put politics aside and read more books like this for the wit, humor and parody of modern America that it represents, the nation might be in a better place. Put your ideology aside and try reading this book ... you may well be in store for an enjoyable expedition in tweaking the foibles of living in our contemporary world.
By Robert Steven Thomas
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I have been a Hiaasen fan since I bought the first edition of his first novel, "Tourist Season." I have all of his essay collections (Miami "Herald" columns, actually) plus "Team Rodent" (about the Disney empire). Why am I not more enthusiastic about a collection of what is, effectively, more of the same? Because, after all these years, his subject matter has become profoundly depressing. We have come to the point where he writes about a government (especially in his home state) that doesn't even pretend to care. So you will read about inconceivable atrocities that would be funny if they weren't true, or if you had any sense anything would actually happen to the people who perpetrate them. As a Floridian long past middle age, I think I figured it out. My generation knows what has been lost, but the succeeding ones never knew much better than what they have now. So I'm left to wonder, like poor old Bob Dole, "Where's the outrage?"
By Captain K
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