 "Good but not his best work" | 2009-08-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2E2OWLVV88H5G |
| I have read all of Hiassen's book. This one is good but not as exciting as most of his others. It is still worth reading as it is good entertainment. |
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 "Slow Moving and Predictable" | 2009-07-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3ARJMJWXMD8YZ |
| I usually love this authors books, however, this one was predictable and slow. I really had to force myself to keep reading til the end. There were times I skipped pages just to finish. The plot is interesting but, It seems to be over written. I did like the singers sister, Jacks romance with his editor and Jacks obessesion with death. The frozen lizard was funny too. |
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 "Fellow author gives thumbs up" | 2009-05-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1MCAHDE1F3Q6L |
[...] I give this a thumbs up for outrageous comedy at its best. I have been a Carl Hiaasen fan for years and have loved every one of his books that I have read.
What I loved about this book, as is the case with all of his, is that his characters are so engaging. The plot twists and turns are unexpected and the situations keep getting more and more outrageous. It is dark, satirical, and delicious. I don't know how he does it. The flavor of all of his books is the same. Yet this, just like the rest, was as refreshing as the first book I read by him.
Davis Aujourd'hui, author of "The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude" |
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 "It was good" | 2009-05-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A39RTEPGBD2WOY |
This was a pretty good book with a good plot and some funny characters, although it wasn't the hilarious book I was expecting. It was funny in places, especially when the main protagonist pictures his own death in the morning obituaries, but wasn't consistantly creative and new.
The book feels sort of slow in places and is too long for its own good. This would have been a much better book had all of its creativity, of which there is plenty, could have been contained in a hundred less pages. |
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| "IF FLETCH WROTE OBITUARIES... HE MIGHT BE JACK TAGGER..." | 2009-04-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: AZ9YQCI92ZCP8 |
Jack Tagger's calling in life is more than banging out obits. He gets his chance when Jimmy Stoma of the Slut Puppies turns up dead... of course, Jack is not only an ardent fan, but this incident also serves as the break he needs... He knows Stoma's death was no scuba accident and so goes the investigation. Perhaps it is Stoma's wife, a sort of Courtney Love composite; I won't spoil it here.
Hiaasen's writing is offbeat and outragous as usual and once again, like in Skin Tight, a dead animal-- a frozen lizard in this case-- is used as a deadly weapon. Funny stuff.
One of the critiques on this book is the first person narrative, unlike Hiaasen's other works usually written in the third (which I personally prefer). Hiaasen, according to his site, said, "I'd always wanted to try that narrative form, but I was worried that I would feel too restricted, being locked inside one character's head." At times that's what I felt reading Basket Case, that I wanted to glean other perspectives from the characters. So in summary, this is not one of my personal, favorite books of Hiaasen (Skin Tight is)... to put it in music terms, I like the Doors, but I prefer Strange days over the Soft Parade... Miles Davis' Kind of Blue versus Sketches of Spain... you get my point. |
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| "Fantastic" | 2009-02-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1M5ZT35YX6TIN |
| I love Carl Hiaasen's mystery novels. This one was a thriller worth a second read. Its light enough not to make you bite your nails or keep you up at night, but will keep you wondering whodunit. This would make a great beach vacation read. |
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