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About the Author
Carl Hiaasen (pronounced "hiya-sun") was born and raised in South Florida and presently lives in Tavernier, smack in the middle of the Florida Keys. He attended Emory University and was graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1974. Hiaasen began his journalism career writing weird public interest stories ("Garbageman for a day") at Cocoa Today (now the Melbourne-based Florida Today). He joined the Miami Herald in 1976, and since then has been a reporter for their general assignment desk, Sunday magazine and investigative team. As part of The Miami Herald's investigative team, Hiaasen has worked on projects exposing dangerous doctors in Florida, land corruption in the Florida Keys, and drug smuggling in the Bahamas and Key West. He is currently Metro columnist for the paper where his award-winning columns on rapacious development, egregious business practices, and corrupt politicians have helped clarify issues for the Florida citizenry. Carl Hiaasen turned his hand to fiction in the early eighties. His first novel, Tourist Season,was published in 1986 and named "one of the ten best destination reads of all time" by GQ Magazine. He is the author of five other best-selling novels, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue, Strip Tease and Stormy Weather. Louise Bernikow, writing in Cosmopolitan, calls Hiaasen's fiction "unbelievably funny -- tears-running-down-your-cheeks funny in spite of some pretty weighty themes like the destruction of the environment and the cut-throat ways of developers." Tony Hillerman calls Hiaasen "the Mark Twain of the crime novel." And Donald Westlake says "Hiaasen is so good he ought to be illegal." Hiaasen is also a songwriter, having co-wrote two songs on Warren Zevon's album. Mutineer (the two songs are Seminole Bingo and Rollweiler Blues). The film Strip Tease, based on Hiaasen's novel, directed by Andrew Bergman starring Demi Moore in pasties and Burt Reynolds in a hairpiece, was a recent major motion picture.
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Product details
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Trade edition (February 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446695653
ISBN-13: 978-0446695657
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1.2 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
288 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#141,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Carl Hiaasen can show you the dark side of life in Florida and make you laugh in the process. In Lucky You, published in 1997, he proves the point again and again. The novel shines a light on religious nuts, redneck scumbags, money-laundering gangsters, and the decline of local journalism as well as Florida's natural wonders. You'll be laughing all the way.Religious scam artists and the decline of local journalismJust for starters, here are the principal characters in this cockamamie story:** JoLayne Lucks is a registered nurse who prefers animals to people and has taken a job as a veterinarian's assistant in a small town in northern Florida full of religious scam artists. She is a passionate nature-lover who has rescued 46 turtles called cooters and feeds them lettuce in a large aquarium in her home.** Tom Krome is a laid-off investigative reporter forced to take a job as a features writer on an undistinguished local newspaper in Florida. The paper is a case study in the decline of local journalism. He's been trying for years to have divorce papers served on his actress wife, who is circling the country in low-rent road shows to avoid the issue. Meanwhile, he is carrying on an affair with the wife of a rabidly jealous local judge.** Bodean Gazzer, known as Bode, is a racist conspiracy nut whose rap sheet is an arm and a leg long. His companion, Chub, who claims to have only one name, is a glue-sniffing ex-con with a propensity for violence. The two have decided to form a militia called the White Rebel Brotherhood. Bode is the more inventive of the two. He has convinced Chub that foreign NATO troops are massed in the Bahamas preparing an invasion to take over 'Merica on behalf of Negros and Jews.There is absolutely no reason for these four people to meet. But then JoLayne's Lotto ticket comes up a winner. And so does Bode and Chub's. They're due to share a $28 million jackpot. But the two rednecks can't stand sharing, so they resolve to rob JoLayne's. Take it from there. Carl Hiaasen did. And we're all the richer for it.Incidentally, Carl Hiaasen may have a ringside seat to the decline of local journalism, but you'll look in vain for any signs in his writing to the decline of American humor.
I have read a number of Hiaasen novels, but not for a few years. How wonderful to be welcomed back to a wacky Florida world he illustrates like a mad modern art painting. The characters are delightfully evil and deceitful, typically disillusioned and finally redeeming. Florida is now my adopted home and these personalities are more believable everyday good and bad. A terrific vacation read to be savored by the beach wherever it might be. Don’t miss it.
I got into Hiaasen after reading an article on Florida crime fiction in the New Yorker. The article concentrates specifically on Hiaasen's writing, at one point comparing his style with Tom Wolf's Miami novel "Back to Blood". there are style similarities - both are social satirists, both see the world through a glass, darkly. However, neither is Hiaasen the word smith that Wolf is, nor is his intent the same. I've always felt Wolf works best as a social critic. He tends not to delve deeply into his characters' psyches, but rather rumages around in the milieu in which they live. For me, Hiaasen's primary intent is to entertain, and he does that in spades. Lucky You is chock full of outlandish characters and situations. I had a lot of chuckles and a few belly laughs reading him. He's a great read when you need a break (for me a two day reading break before I march into Foote's third volume of his Civil War narrative), or simply want an entertaining read. My second Hiaasen, and I will definitely read more.
Although this book has quirky characters and the usual satirical look at things in the state of Florida it is not as engaging as many of Hiaasen's other books. It seemed to be a rather "slow read" when compared to many of his other books. Although superior to most satirical writing from current authors this is not one of Hiaasen's best. As "Hiaasen's best" is outstanding, this means the book is entertaining if one is not familiar with his other offerings. Books like SICK PUPPY are "laugh out loud" funny. This one is amusing but has a bit of a bite.
Classic Hiaasen. Crazy characters. Twisted plots. And the inevitable unlikely romance. This one was particularly fun because it has several plot elements twisting around at the same time. If one plot line starts getting strained, you know the next chapter deals with a different, but related event.
Laugh out loud funny turns into leaden droning as the story drags on and on. Couldn't wait till the pain was over. One of Hiaasen's worst.
I read this book while getting inspiration for my book The Medici Iris: A Tale of Murder, Sex, Drugs...and Horticulture - Hiaasen always has crazy capers with multiple character arcs that come together at the end. It's hard to pull off, but he often brings it all together.I had trouble with country-losers wanting to get ANOTHER winning lottery ticket [could they not see they had already WON?!], but it would not have been a story if they had had any brains.The reporter protagonist was was a good character. I liked the pokes he took at his editor and his relationship with the leading lady evolves in a believable way. No spoilers - but the last part of the book is a little morbid [in a good way] out in the bayou...but what a good place for it all to happen.Enjoyed it and will check out more by this author
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