I remember really liking one of the bands singles, basket case, off an album called floating hospice. A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of bad monkey and razor girl. Hiaasen has received numerous awards for his work including damon runyon award from the denver press club. You get to like the main character whose paper is bought out by moneygrubbing entitled rich and who is put into a dark corner of the paper on the obituary desk when. Once a hotshot investigative reporter, jack tagger now bangs out obitu.
Basket case is the first carl hiaasen that ive read and it was pretty good. This novel marks the first time hiaasen used firstperson point of view to deliver the novel. Hoot ebook by carl hiaasen 9780375890277 rakuten kobo. Humor general its meant to be funny and it was refreshing to read a mystery that was fairly light and without too much heavy emotion. Read hoot by carl hiaasen available from rakuten kobo. It was so easy to read that i was finished before i knew it. Jimmy sang lead and sometimes played rhythm guitar. When jimmy stoma, the infamous front man of jimmy and the slut pup. This newbery honorwinning, hilarious floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators.
Stashed somewhere in my apartment is one of their early albums, reptiles and amphibians of north america. Jack taggers years in exile at the obituaries desk of a south florida daily havent dulled his investigative reporters nose for a good story. This newbery honorwinning, hilarious floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, ecowarriors, pancakes. Basket case the free library of philadelphia overdrive. In basket case, the general types are personified as a rock singer female of limited talent and endless ambition and a greedy newspaper mogul. Pacing the story moves and doesnt lag at any point. His work has also appeared in many wellknown magazines, including sports illustrated, playboy, time, life, esquire and, gourmet. Bad monkey will have you on the edge of your seat and laughing out loud. Jack taggers years in exile at the obituaries desk. It is a crime novel set in florida that centers on the death of singer jimmy stoma, the former lead man of jimmy and the slut puppies.
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