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Sto caricando le informazioni... Gulf Boulevarddi Dennis Hart
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After Jason Najarian wins a $63 million lottery he buys his divorced parents each a house, disengages from newfound friends and relatives, and plots revenge on his unfaithful ex-wife, who pleads temporary 'insanity....My periods were wicked bad back then.' Jason gives her $10,000, moves to a beachfront mansion on a Florida island and tells her to join him in Malibu, Calif. The bad guy lead is amply filled by 380-pound, 5-foot-10 Salvatore 'Two Scales' Scalise, a hit man in hiding after accidentally adding the mob capo's son to a contract. The romantic lead goes to Fiona 'Running Bush' Tallahassee, Native American activist, who Jason believes is the 'most beautiful woman I have ever seen, without first logging onto a website.' Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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i'm sorry to say i wasn't impressed with this one.
The plot revolves around a white-collar worker drudging through each day until he wins the lottery. He quits his job and proceeds to move to Sand Key, Florida, where he meets a bevy of other people that are also looking for respite from life's various problems.
Despite the ostensibly motley gang of people, none seem likable or even relatable. While it's entirely possible that this was the author's intention, the novel reads like it was written by and for highfalutin WASPs. All of the women in the story seem to be either meretricious opportunists or airheaded bimbos. The main character describes in rather great detail a taxi driver that "looks like he is from one of those stan countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iranistan, Iraqistan . . . whatever" [p. 67]. He sees "a collection of magazines and Internet articles" and (of course) suspects "much of the information has to do with the precise manufacture of things that go boom" [p. 68].
One of the most prevalent "jokes" in this book is a lame barb at Koreans. After an obligatory "rice and Rottweiler stew" joke, the author fills up another page sneering at "human waste being used as fertilizer in North Korea" [pp. 117-8]. i cannot be sure whether or not Mr. Hart was aware that this had been rather commonplace for thousands of years until about a century ago. i also cannot say whether or not he was aware that biosolids are often still used as fertilizer worldwide (yes, even in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.) But i can certainly venture a guess. Kirkus actually mentions this irrelevant banter in their review, but naturally it was left out when the review was reposted on the author's website.
"This is neither great literature nor politically correct, but it’s a lot of fun.", concludes Publishers Weekly's review. If your idea of fun is lowbrow schlock with vapid characters, then you may find it here. However, even as a fan of lowbrow schlock from time to time, i couldn't say that i enjoyed this one.
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