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This is a great read, perhaps less speckled with Hiaasen's brilliant humor than his other works, but with a far more poignant message. To say more would give away the story. Having read all his novels at least twice, I think this one may contain the most important statement. Very highly recommended.


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Tourist Season Carl Hiaasen 9780446695718 Books Reviews

Tourists and civic leaders are being targeted by a rag-tag group of terrorists in Miami. The idea is to rid Florida of developers, bankers and, in fact, everybody. A newspaper
Columnist, an inept Cuban bomb maker, a washed up ex-football player and a Seminole Indian hatch their plans.
When the ultimate target, the Orange Bowl Queen is discovered, Brian Keyes is hired by her father as body guard and "baby sitter" . It's not all bad. The girl is 19, pretty, and no air-headed pageant winner. Brian comes to respect her and more.
The plot is fast paced, the action realistic, and the characters are by turns funny, tragic and idealistic . There are twists and turns that will keep you turning the pages.
This was Carl Haissen's first solo novel and the first of his that I read. It was a daily special so I downloaded and read it again. Except for the fact that there were no cell phones, which really would have come in handy, the story is as meaningful now as it was then. And more urgent.
He has a weird sense of humor so if you can't appreciate the Chamber of Commerce president choking on a rubber alligator, you might want to pass.
I gave it four stars because his fiction writing got even better. I've read most if not all of his books and I follow his columns in the Miami Herald. Journalists like him are becoming as extinct as wood storks.
I found this book interesting and entertaining . When I first downloaded the book and started reading, It was recognizable Hiaasen but different. I then looked for the publishing date ....... 1986, 32 years ago. I have been more familiar with his books of the past 10 years. The funny wackiness of Florida and the colorful characters that inhabit our “Sunshine State”. Always entertaining, funny, and worth the read.
Carl Hiaasen's books tend to follow a formula. That's not necessarily a bad thing; Clive Cussler has his successful formula, and uses it (as Hiaasen does his) to write good, suspenseful books. Heck, most of Dickens' books are somewhat formulaic. In Tourist Season, Hiaasen tweaks his formula slightly. As usual, the protagonist is someone (once again a failed reporter) forced into being a private detective by circumstance. There's the femme fatale with whom our hero is romantically involved against his better judgement, who proves that his better judgement was correct. There's the world-weary cop - the returning character Garcia. All of these are well-done variations of Hiaasen standard characters.

But the main character in all of Carl Hiaasen books is the same. The main character is always Florida, lush, beautiful, Florida. Home to amazing wildlife and horrid humans intent on raping the land for personal gain. Hiaasen usually pits his heroes against these land speculators or other corrupt characters for which his home state is famous. This time is different, as the villains are a group of Eco-terrorists trying to scare people away from further developing South Florida through a series of dramatic murders of tourists and snowbirds. The motives of these villains are understandable, and ones with whom the author is sympathetic. Skip Wiley, the leader of the Eco-terrorists, even seems patterned after the author himself. They are not the usual grasping, money-obsessed grifters that Hiaasen portrays so brilliantly in other books. They have worthy goals. They are limited by their obsessions to the point of insanity.

Hiaasen dispatches his villains to their deaths in his usual brilliantly ironic fashion, but with less glee than usual. The final scene is both satisfying and sad, and all you can do is hope that the eagle decides to fly.
On the plus side, Tourist Season had the usual Hiaasen over-the-top wit.

On the down side, it was a bit too dark for my tastes. It may not have come off the same way in the 80's when it was written, but terrorism played for laughs just does not work in this day and age.

We are used to the bad guys getting their comeuppance in horrible, outrageous ways from Haiaasen, but in this case so do a lot of victims whose only crimes are vacationing or retiring in Florida. I found that off-putting, especially since Hiaasen obviously has a lot of sympathy for these particular bad guys, who are killing random people in hopes of driving people away from Florida in order to ebb the development that is hurting the environment.

Not an altogether bad read. Funny at times. Uncomfortable at times. There are many other better options from Hiaasen.
I didn’t want to like this book much. I was of the opinion Carl Hiaasen is an over-rated writer. In a book or two of his I’d read previously, I thought he had a macabre sense of humor he used to justify his glee in violence. His imagination when crafting these scenes was too fertile for me. But in this book, his villain makes such a fine case, I have to sigh admiringly. As one of the army of winter residents of South Florda, I felt pangs. I’m kind of an old hippy in some ways, so the rape of our environment world-wide is of deep concern to me. To see my own part in abusing our beautiful natural world cut pretty deep. This book contains actual data that should be required reading for all “Snow Birds.”
Whenever I can download a Carl Hiaasen novel for $1.99 I do so. This novel was a little more flippant than most of his other novels I have read, meaning that the murders were kind of casually no big deal, all in the good cause of trying to save the paradise of Miami from tourists taking over. For example, although a detective/police trying to run down the criminals story, it was laugh out loud funny in parts. I like the way the author ends his novels and this is no exception. I can’t help myself. I enjoy reading his novels.
This is a great read, perhaps less speckled with Hiaasen's brilliant humor than his other works, but with a far more poignant message. To say more would give away the story. Having read all his novels at least twice, I think this one may contain the most important statement. Very highly recommended.