* Max and Bonnie Lamb, honeymooners from New York their young marriage goes off the rails when Max is abducted while avidly making vacation videos of the destruction. Hiaasen's cast of characters are all outrageous in one way or another, and their stories inevitably intersect: Looters, rubberneckers and opportunists are drawn to Dade County in droves, showing the worst in human nature-but so hilariously. Entire neighborhoods are wrecked, in some cases due to reckless disregard of building codes. The setting for Stormy Weather is southern Florida immediately after a devastating hurricane. One Man's Opinion: THE GIRL WITH THE LONG GREEN HE.Do you like 'crazy' in your books? Carl Hiaasen is one of a select company of writers that dishes up 'crazy' all the way.Stormy Weather? Fair company for a journey, entertaining if you can find the right head space and a surprisingly pacey read for a big book. It has a record label and shop, so you can find some cool tunes while you eat, drink and be merry. This happens to be a most excellent place to visit for anyone travelling to Edinburgh (food, music, vibe et al). No out loud laughs, just the odd warm moment.Īmong my favourite moments, the mention in the plot of Paradise Palms. For me, not really big on satire, it was none of the above though I smiled quite a bit and enjoyed quite a number of the situations and lines. 'Perhaps the funniest important writer in America'.

There are lots of quotes on the sleeve about how hilarious the end result is. There's kidnapping, fraud, crucifixion, death by lion, swamp sex, an electric collar, a dart gun and a deranged monkey camera thief to name a but a few. It does feel a bit like Hiaasen has created these sets of characters, thrown them into a blended and poured out the resulting cocktail onto the page, yet the various plots converge in a way that suggests there's been a lot more planning than that.Įssentially this is bonkers. Another couple come together to exploit the devastation for financial gain. A skull-juggler feels the need to search for the exotic animals he's recently inherited. A man on honeymoon would rather take film of the victims than spend time with his new wife. A one-eyed man of the wild is hoping the storm will be the biggest on record. While there's tragedy everywhere, there are pockets of unusual thinking and strange behaviour.

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