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	• Skinny Dip Carl Hiaasen Grand Central Publishing, 2006 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 317 reviews view larger image
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Funny, fun...fun

This is a funny, comical novel about a selfish, arrogant biologist (said loosely) name Chaz, who pushes his wife, Joey, off a cruise ship because he thinks she's figured out he has been doctoring water samples from the Everglades he tests for his job with a local farm. What he doesn't know is, she doesn't die. She is rescued by a former cop, Mick, who is living on an island off the coast. Joey decides she wants to seek revenge on her husband and recruits Mick to help her. Add to the mix Chaz's girlfriend, Ricca, the investigating detective, Karl, and the bodyguard/babysitter, Tool and you have yourself a slapstick comedy. I enjoyed this book. It is full of wit and humor with a little bit of political rant regarding the protection of the Everglades. It was subtle enough to not take away from the enjoyment of the novel. I recommend this and may try another one of Hiaasen's novels.

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Mediocre Murder Mystery

I was sadly unimpressed with this Hiassen novel. I have loved most of his other books. This one seemed to go on forever and the ending was terrible. I hope it is just one rotten apple in the barrel.

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library book

It arrived in less than a week, but I was unaware that it was a library book so the binding was in less than good condition as it had been opened and closed often. It was still wearing its library jacket as well. I got it cheap, so it was worth the price.

Fun and interesting reading

If you have ever wanted to get even with an ex-boy friend or ex-husband, this book will give you some laughs. Although Chaz does enough damage to himself with his own stupidity. Mick Stanahan helps Joey understand why her husband Chaz tried to kill her. Then there is Ricca the hairdresser and Chaz's sidekick, who ends up with a thirty-eight-caliber hole in her leg and dumped in the swamp only to be saved by a Vietnam vet with one eye and I'll let you read the end to see how Chaz feels about meeting this same character. This is a fun/fast read, great to take on a vacation.

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Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn't drown. Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign that's guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy.You've got to hand it to Hiaasen: He's perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida's environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who'd rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the 'Glades into "God's septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey's sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz's own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can't keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool's conscience grows in competition with Chaz's ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead.As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what's missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan's character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, fromStrip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce

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