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Whenever I need a break from serious reading, I always default to Hiassen. Again in Stormy Weather, he starts off with a dramatic event and character descriptions that immediately capture the reader's attention and amusement. He cleverly carries each of his characters through the story in their dysfunctional, pathetic and hilarious misadventures and manages to pull all of them together for a great ending. As always, the good guys go on their merry way while the bad ones, let's just say they had it coming.....


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Stormy Weather Carl Hiaasen 9780446677165 Books Reviews

The cast of characters in this book are so odd and out there, I found myself wondering how the heck Carl was going to put them all together. The crazy one-eyed Everglades living former Governor, the skull juggling lost son, a maniac who is little more evil than Manson, a hot trailerpark chick who knows her only asset is her body and a newlywed who thinks about his job more than his new wife? Three-quarters into this book I couldn't figure out how they would all tie in together and how it would resolve. The storyline was wildly engaging and I must admit, I didn't like the ending but overall it was a fun ride. I enjoyed it enough to try another one of his books.
I've thoroughly enjoyed all of Hiaasen's books. He's got such a great imagination for plot and his characters never fail to amazing and intrigue me. This is right up there with his best.
Picked this to read because it seemed appropriate due to the present circumstances. IT was a good read. All the creepy characters were out of the wood work looking to take advantage of the situation. However, unlike real life, the creepy characters get what they deserve... Just wish there was a genuine Skink to get things straight in real life.
Hi assent is a master character creator, and this book does not disappoint. Is Skink crazy? Probably, but who cares? He’s full of unexpected behavior and thought, and the eventual merry band’s adventures will make you want to read in one fell swoop. Post hurricane devastation and hijinx. Who knew?
Carl Hiaasen has delighted readers by skewering Florida institutions ranging from trophy bass tournaments to televangelism to cosmetic surgery. It is a killer hurricane that is the unlikely backdrop for "Stormy Weather". A host of talented writers - Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey among the best - feast on the seemingly endless stream of absurdity provided by Florida's uniquely bizarre mix of rednecks, lowlifes, shysters, snowbirds, and corrupt politicians. But none succeed in capturing Florida with the biting irony and black humor that Carl Hiaasen brings to the pages. "Stormy Weather" is another outstanding example of social satire at its best the insufferably shallow New York advertising man, the terminally corrupt Miami code inspector, the low-life con artist and her criminal sidekick, the sleazy mobile-home salesman and his cheating wife. Back from Hiaasen's "Double Whammy" is the aberrant but lovable road-kill eating, swamp-loving "Skink", and black state trooper Jim Tile, as close to normal as one will find in a Hiaasen novel. Even the "hero" is wacky - a human skull-juggling proprietor of an exotic wildlife exhibit. In the wake of a massively destructive hurricane, "Stormy Weather" chronicles the fictional - but highly plausible - descent of the swindlers, scammers, and criminals to prey on the victims of the storm. If Hiaasen's usual complement of oddball characters is not enough, the cast is supplemented with packs of storm-liberated wild animals prowling the Miami suburbia. Hiaasen's brilliant expose of the dark side of human nature is never preachy, but whose caustic humor leaves the reader alternating between knowing grins and out-loud guffaws. In anticipation of the author's inevitably unique forms of justice that will be meted out to the miscreants, the pages fly. In part poignant, biting, bawdy but always funny, "Stormy Weather" is another fine example of Hiaasen's literary wit.
Last year, I read Skinny Dip, my first Hiaasen novel. I was really pleasantly surprised. I found it fun, interesting, quirky-- an excellent waste of time. I wanted to read something else by him and several people recommended Stormy Weather. It is meant to be classic Hiaasen, whatever that means.

What classic Hiaasen meant for me, unfortunately, was that it read very much like Skinny Dip. I can't help but think it a good sign when you feel that an author is formulaic after only two books.

A well-meaning woman makes a bad marriage choice to a reasonably icky male. Disaster of one kind or another brings her into contact with a damaged but well-meaning loner who quickly reveals himself to be a better catch than the man that she actually married. Add to that basic plot a whole lot of character-based zaniness and the idea of Florida as a lens which sorts out the good from the bad, and it seems from these two books as though you have Hiassen in a nutshell.

To be clear, there's nothing wrong with a good formula, providing that it delivers the entertainment value. Hiassen certainly does that-- no doubt about it. I enjoyed Stormy Weather, even if the enjoyment was dimmed by the comparison to Skinny Dip.

By the way, it is well possible that I just picked an unfortunate two books with which to begin and that when I read a third I will see that the strong plot similarities were simply coincidence. I hope so. I've already got Nature Girl sitting on my shelf to be read, so I guess that I'm going to find out.
This is a wonderful tale, full of the twists and turns that make Hiaasen so fun. It's another "laugh out loud" book-at least I found it so-and as such it is somewhat unsatisfactory for late night reading if one has a partner; I was banished from the bedroom when reading this because of uncontrolled ejaculations of laughter. If you like Hiaasen, you will love this one. If you're new to his work, you can't go wrong with this excellent example of a genre created by Mr. Hiaasen-the "Florida Crime Novel." May Clinton Tyree live forever!
Whenever I need a break from serious reading, I always default to Hiassen. Again in Stormy Weather, he starts off with a dramatic event and character descriptions that immediately capture the reader's attention and amusement. He cleverly carries each of his characters through the story in their dysfunctional, pathetic and hilarious misadventures and manages to pull all of them together for a great ending. As always, the good guys go on their merry way while the bad ones, let's just say they had it coming.....