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Cargando... Stormy Weather (1995)por Carl Hiaasen
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Stormy Weather is another Carl Hiaasen book the features Kink, the former Governor of Florida. Skink lives in the remaining wilds of Florida and survives mainly on roadkill. While this book was written in 1995 there are some very current themes. Poorly built houses were damaged beyond repair by the storm. Unscrupulous builders, building inspectors and sales people were all to blame. Among the victims of the hurricane were two dachshunds names Donald and Marla and an advertising account executive who had only read one book in his life, The Art of the Deal. There is an abduction in this story. The reader will find his or her self wondering who abducted whom before the story is over. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER â?¢ A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after a hurricane hits. "Hysterically funnyâ?¦. Hiaasen at his satirical best." â??USA Today When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists, and ex-cons waste no time in swarming over the disaster area. And caught in the middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, honeymooners who abandon their Disney World plans to witness the terrible devastation. But when Max vanishes, Bonnie, aided by a mysterious young man with a tranquilizer gun and a roomful of human skulls, has to follow her only clue: a runawa No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In the best cases, everything snaps together with a satisfying click. This doesn't quite get there, but it is still a delight to read with several laugh-out-loud sections and a feeling, by the end, that things turned out correctly. If it isn't at the lofty highs of Hiaasen's best work, it's still damn good. ( )