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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This might be the best ever. His depiction of POTUS is exquisite. Just what I needed in times like these. ( ) this review is for the audiobook edition, narrated by scott brick. so. funny. ridiculously so. and very much needed right now - humour in the absurd. because it is absolutely absurd out there right now! if you are a human being with empathy, and you care about the well-being of others... you've been living through some very bleak times. hiaasen knows this, and recognizes the absolute shitstorm of dangerous idiocy squeezing the life out of the united states. he's used it, spun it on its head, and manages to make it something to laugh at. i know! impossible! and, yet... thank goodness! i am in the reading slump to beat all reading slumps this year. it's been... unpleasant. no focus. no concentration. very little processing space for details and information. when i have managed to take in books, it's been through audiobooks. but i cannot guarantee i could tell you anything about anything i've heard. LOL!! anyway, squeeze me was an outrageous delight. i actually laughed out loud more than once - startling myself in the process because: what is laughter in 2020?? Near Casa Bellicosa (Mar-a-Lago) an elderly woman at a fundraiser is devoured by a Python, and there seems to be (pace Frederik Pohl) a plague of pythons in Florida. This is Hiassen's novel of the Trump era, and it's very funny, with his trademark excellent characters (including a long-running fascinating funny Hiassen character) and super plotting. Very funny book, though its climax was kind of overshadowed for me by the wild boat party for Trump in Texas the weekend I read the book.; that was more Hiassen than Hiassen. There's also kind of a cognitive dissonance in a comic novel of one of the great villains in American history, especially since we don't now know his fate. no reviews | add a review
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"From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters. A surefire best seller. Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle of the road brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a lovestruck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons . . . Completely of the moment, full of vim and vigor, and as irreverent as can be, Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen"-- No library descriptions found. |
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