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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bad Monkey (Random House Large Print) (edizione 2013)di Carl Hiaasen (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaBad Monkey di Carl Hiaasen Top Five Books of 2015 (559) Books Read in 2016 (1,289) Books Read in 2015 (1,533) » 1 altro Books Read in 2014 (1,909) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I don't generally rate thrillers--or other genre novels--with five stars as a matter of literary and critical principle. In the case of this hilarious high comedy, I am delighted to make an exception. This was kind of funny. Not laugh out loud (LOL!) funny. More like occasional amused smirk (lol) funny. The mystery was engaging, if a bit drawn out by the side adventures and extraneous activity. The characters were well drawn, if a bit over-the-top and all-over-the-map. This ain't Elmore Leonard, but who is? Yancy is a police detective demoted to restaurant food inspector while the media circus around his "incident" with married girlfriend that caused his removal dies down. On the down low he is asked to deliver a limb found at the beach & transfer it to another county to avoid tourists leaving. A mystery ensues about who's arm is it, a few murders, travel to the islands, a monstrosity house being built next door to Yancy, & way too many characters and side stories to make this book smooth. I had to go back a page to see if I missed something as the story skipped around. It did eventually tie up some loose ends toward the end but was unsatisfying. I liked the Yancy character and his new girlfriend but half of the other characters could've been eliminated. I also had a hard time trying to figure out the "island" talk & it was irritating to decipher (no mon, why I do sum ting like dot. bey, I gon pudda black coyse on your soul black as det) The book had a lot of funny spots in it and it was clean with no descriptive sex scenes and not a lot of foul language so I upped it a star
The reason for all this screwball chaos in “Bad Monkey” is clear: Mr. Hiassen does not write serious novels about the human condition. He does not make it matter whose arm was severed, who committed the story’s several murders, which love affairs are real, or what will become of Yancy’s career. His books are built of balsa wood, but they are beautifully constructed all the same. And if they call for more comic distraction than honest emotion? Forget it, Jake; it’s South Florida. The truth is always stranger than fiction. Appartiene alle SerieAndrew Yancy (1) Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events, from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island, with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy's new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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