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What can I say? It's Carl Hiassen and his usual "menagerie" of misfits, oddballs, unlovable business people and officials, and a couple bumbling thieves who manage to elicit laughs and, remarkably, even empathy. As a retired conservation biologist, I always appreciate how he works environmental themes into his books, and feel his rue over the declining ecosystems of Florida, a state Thrillist recently named as the worst in "everything."


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Native Tongue Carl Hiaasen Books Reviews

When it come to satire, Carl Hiaasen, a tongue in cheek editorialist for the Miami Herald is a master. Likewise with his dozen or so improbable novels.
This review is about my personal favorite novel from the amusingly wacky mind of Hiaasen, so if you like your mysteries with an off the wall, absurd slant, (more loony than mystery) read on.
The central villain of Native Tongue is Francis X. Kingsbury, he, the boorish owner of a shabby second-rate nature theme park, Amazing Kingdom of Thrills Theme Park, who, with jealous eyes, aspires to be a competitor for Disney World, and consequently, has plans to further rape the environment with an ostentatious condo development and adjoining golf-course.
Our protagonist, who may be a vicarious creation of our author, is Joe Winder a former journalist, who initially goes to work as a PR/Damage Control man for the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills Park. His boss Kingsbury happens to be in a government witness protection program for ratting on John Gotti.
Our Story starts out when a pair of Blue Tongued Mango Voles, an extremely rare endangered species, are stolen from a pavilion at the theme park. The Voles one of the park's premier exhibits strongly resemble rats with a blue tongue. Shortly thereafter a series of murder and mayhem begin and our hero is inextricably drawn in to investigate.
Along the way we get to see a plethora of nutty characters, starting with every Hiaasen fan's favorite, Skink, a former Governor of Florida turned eco-terrorist/hermit. Other wacky characters include, Grandma, a 70-year-old pistol packing member of the Wildlife Rescue Corps, A girlfriend who "talks dirty" for a living, a heavy handed gun loving Sheriff's Deputy and a young woman in a raccoon costume, not to mention Dickie the Dolphin has a helluva romp in his tank with a beautiful TV reporter and Orky the Wale, who kills the Voles doctor, which is subsequently set up like a suicide.
Sound like fun? It is, so I won't spoil it for you. Read the book!
Native Tongue was Hiassen's fourth solo novel and as with the others is set in his home state of Florida. While Hiaasen's wit is undeniable, there is an underlying agenda in his books. It is obvious that Mr. Hiassen is a conservationist and is not happy with the wanton rapid, seemingly unregulated development taking place in Florida.
Hiassen's writing is amazingly simple and straight forward.
Being an editorialist this is a man that knows how to write. His preposterous stories are so interesting that the pages just wiz by. His characters are also unbelievably interesting if not outright Wacky. For Instance the six foot five, ex-Governor Skink who Hiaasen seems to reprise in most of his novels is a beloved character, sort of like F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack. For those of you who are not familiar with Skink, it's a funny story. When he was governor his liberal conservationist programs were thwarted by the legislature at every turn. Rumor had it that he just flipped out. He did get so disgusted that he walked out of the Governorship and from time to time is spotted in the Everglades sporting a shower cap.
If you are in the mood for a light entertaining read I highly recommend Hiaasen, especially Native Tongue
I love this novel! It's absolutely one of Hiaasen's best. In fact, in a couple of spots I laughed so hard I almost wet my pants! No kidding... that funny! The problem here was my stupid mistake. Instead of getting an audio CD, I got an audio cassette tape. No, that isn't what I wanted, nor was that what I thought I had ordered. After the tapes arrived, and after I finished cursing at myself for not checking the order more carefully, I hunted down an old cassette player and dove into what is possibly Hiaasen's best book. So... Overall the book is great! But a word of caution dear readers do check you order carefully before you hit "Place Order."
I am74 but recommend for almost any age from mature teens and up. I love Florida and wanted to retire there but could not make it. This the next best thing. Have fun.
I read everything Carl writes! Period. He is consistent and his characters become a part of your expectation. I always wait for the words, "plastic shower cap" "Glass eye" "Trooper" "Roadkill" and so many other hints that My Favorite character has just landed slap dab in the middle of my latest read. Hiaasen writes about my home state, Florida. I have been to every single location he mentions. I lived in Islamorada for two years so his stories about the Keys are like reading about my own back yard! He has a love for that wonderful state and is writing these fun and wonderful stories to open the eyes of the reader (in a screaming funny way) to the plight that over population and pristine undisturbed nature should have heroes. And Hiaasen gives us those heros! And How! Uncle Raggy
Welcome to South Florida, Key Largo, to be exact. It is replete with burglars, hit men, mob informants, and tourists.
You will also meet Newspaper writers, phone sex workers, and the one eyed and elusive Skunk who has a history all his own. And no Hiassen story would be complete without a rounded up security guard and a pistol packing senior citizen .
All these characters and more will be found in Native Tongue.
I get tired of Hiassen's moralizing about the mangroves and have accepted it as one of the costs of reading his work. But he is so worth it. This is one of the funniest novels I've ever read. Hiassen has a gift for creating interesting stories with well-defined, quirky but relatable characters, and he can write comic dialogue like nobody's business; he is the best I've ever seen this side of John Kennedy Toole. If you are thinking of dipping into Carl Hiassen's comic novels, this is the book to start with. It's funny as hell.
The Skink series is an outrageously funny mystery. Like the other Carl Hiaasen books I've read it starts slowly, but once it gets rolling you will swept along. The verbal pictures he paints had me laughing out loud - for protracted periods. Improbable situations, such as two hardened burglars being shot by a little old lady wind, turns out to be a hardened little old lady, wind up protecting her against the forces of an ex criminal, South Florida real estate robber baron/amusement park entrepreneur, are Hiaasen's stock in trade. If you liked Dave Barry's Big Trouble, you will love this book.
What can I say? It's Carl Hiassen and his usual "menagerie" of misfits, oddballs, unlovable business people and officials, and a couple bumbling thieves who manage to elicit laughs and, remarkably, even empathy. As a retired conservation biologist, I always appreciate how he works environmental themes into his books, and feel his rue over the declining ecosystems of Florida, a state Thrillist recently named as the worst in "everything."