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75 out of 75 people found this review helpful.

Who's killing off the Slut Puppies??? 'Not I ' said the bleached blonde...

Date of Review:  Jan 11, 2003
The Bottom Line: Quirky, hilarious characters, great settings, a mysterious diving death, a band called the "Slut Puppies" and an obituary writer obsessed with his own mortality. You can't go wrong!
Review: I first read Carl Hiaasen about a year ago when an editor I work with raved about his stuff. (Don't worry, I don't work for Hiaasen's publisher!) I had told this editor friend that I'd been bass fishing quite a bit during the summer, and he told me...
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  5.0

by: kevlog
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Classic Hiaasen! The guy appreciates...
Cons
a tad predictable in places
 
39 out of 39 people found this review helpful.

Jimmy and the Slut Puppies...Rock On!!

Date of Review:  May 17, 2002
The Bottom Line: Humor, rock stars, reporters and a fight with a frozen lizard as the weapon...what more could you want?
Review: How can you not love a book that revolves around a rocker named Jimmy Stoma and his band, The Slut Puppies? The most recent book by Florida novelist and newspaper columnist Carl Hiaasen (Striptease, Sick Puppy, Lucky You) is a cracking good novel...
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  4.0

by: goldmoon
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Humorous writing that almost always...
Cons
The mystery isn't much of a mystery.
 
37 out of 37 people found this review helpful.

The insecurites of the modern journalist

Date of Review:  May 9, 2003
The Bottom Line: Probably his best novel since Striptease, Carl Hiaasen offers up another pleasant little satire about corruption in the media.
Review: Many among us who read a large number of books, reviewers and non, tend to have that one embarrassing type of book or author we love to read, but is admittedly not the high-and-mighty "quality" fiction we want people to believe we spend our time...
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  4.0

by: minorthreat78
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Generally funny, typically wacky...
Cons
Above mentioned characters
 
32 out of 32 people found this review helpful.

Carl Hiaasen Takes On The Music Industry.

Date of Review:  Sep 14, 2002
The Bottom Line: Basket Case is a humorous, fun page-turner with sleazy characters and enjoyable satire.
Review: Carl Hiaasen is a South Florida writer who has developed a pretty large following over the past 10 years or so. He has written 8 humorous novels and a short treatise on the Disney Corporation and how it's harming Florida as much as it's helping it...
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  4.0

by: jeff_wilder78
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Funny satire of the music industry,...
Cons
Represents a departure from previous...
 
25 out of 25 people found this review helpful.

Carl Hiassen's latest book takes a long time to make its case

Date of Review:  Jan 29, 2002
The Bottom Line: First-time readers should be solidly amused; Hiassen vets will wonder why the laughs don't come more quickly.
Review: Basket Case offers Carl Hiassen's usual satirical look at unlikely lowlifes. But unlike most of his other novels, it's a pretty long slog until you reach the funny stuff.

Unlike Hiassen's other fictions, Basket Case is told in the first...
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  3.0

by: SKAD13
Recommended to buy: Yes

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The usual Hiassen satirical insight
Cons
The payoffs take longer than usual to...
 
17 out of 17 people found this review helpful.

An Absolute Laugh Riot!

Date of Review:  Feb 9, 2002
The Bottom Line: Incredibly funny, entertaining, well written and original.
Review: When I heard of this novel, I believed that I had never read a previous book by Mr. Haisson. In fact, I didn't even think I'd heard of him until I saw Matt interview him on the Today Show. Then I found out he was a contributing writer to the book...
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  4.0

by: SammySea6
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Absolutely hilarious! Multiple...
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The humor may not be everyone's piece...
 
15 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

Funny, but not hilarious

Date of Review:  Jan 25, 2002
The Bottom Line: Buy it, read it over the weekend, and laugh. But don't count on laughing so hard you cry.
Review: I'm a Carl Hiaasen fan, so I eagerly snapped this new Hiassen novel up at Costco for $14.99. I read it cover to cover in a weekend, and did enjoy it, but didn't find it to be quite as funny as some of his earlier novels.

In Basket Case,...
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  4.0

by: esobek
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Hiaasen fans will find this new novel...
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Not quite as funny as earlier novels.
 
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

A scathing commentary on modern "culture"

Date of Review:  Jan 19, 2008
The Bottom Line: A funny, rocking read ... sad to think that American pop "culture" has deteriorated even further since then (Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, anyone?)
Review: I picked up Basket Case after reading about it on Amazon.com and look forward to reading more of Carl Hiaasen's works.

Basket Case combines the gritty world of rock and roll and the recording industry with a pinch of romance, whodunit and...
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  4.0

by: chiliqueen
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Scathing look at pop music...
Cons
Sometimes way over the top
 
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Darkly Funny and Wildly Entertaining

Date of Review:  Jul 3, 2008
The Bottom Line: I loved it and have already recommended it to others.
Review: Other than "Team Rodent" I had never read a Hiaasen novel until this one. I had always heard good things and had listened to him compared to many of my favorite authors. Last night I read Basket Case (actually I finished it... I started it...
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  5.0

by: Ravenskya
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Hysterical, entertaining, well written
Cons
Some may not like the wordiness or the...
 

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