a witty mystery
I found this book at Goodwill, you'd be amazed at the amount of good books you can find there for next to nothing. The reason for this is that people just don't read anymore. If you're one of these types, then this is a great book to bring you back into the reading den. It's witty, humorous, and entertaining. Hiassen is a terrific writer who knows how to tell a story that makes you want to read "just one more" chapter before you turn off the lights and go to bed.
Tourist Season is a caper about an amateur terrorist organization that wants to end the tourist industry that is ruining Florida. I think most people will like this book, but if you're from Florida, you'll really like it because of the familiar themes and places. My favorite is the ex-Miami Dolphins football player with an attitude and a radical political view.
Doesn't get a whole lot better than Mr. Hiaasen for humor/wit and crazy antics.
If your looking for something that'll put a smile on your face, Hiaasen is your man. His novels are delightful and I recommend them all.
Perfect vacation reading
[...] I love an author who can tickle my funny bone. Carl Hiaasen has consistently done it for me and this book was no exception.
The humor is dark & satirical and the characters and situations are outrageous. As always, it was another page turner for me. This book is pure escape. It would be a wonderful book for taking on vacation. You are warned. You might have a hard time tearing yourself away from it.
Davis Aujourd'hui, author of "The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude"
Great idea
I was surprised to see that Tourist Season was published almost 20 years ago. It is still a good read today and the issues are still the same: people coming to Florida to retire and die and people coming to Florida on vacation and exploiting the state and the natives.
For me, as a resident of Florida, Tourist Season resonated with my concerns. Tourism creates jobs but they are bad jobs. And despite the Everglades and opportunity for ecotourism, most tourists come to Florida to enter the brightly painted plastic and concrete world of Mickey. Retirees present longer lasting problems.
The title "Tourist Season" is a clever pun on one group of concerned citizens' plan to deal with tourism. In an attempt to reduce Florida's image as one big happy sunshiny beach they being a series of planned attacks on tourism. The idea is to scare off the tourists to protect Florida's ecosystem and economy. Killings and kidnappings are the plan of attack. What seems like an obvious warning to the anti-tourist revolutionaries - a dismembered city official covered in sunscreen and placed in a suitcase with a rubber alligator in his mouth - is written off by police as an oddity and not a political message.
Tourist Season follows an ex-reporter's attempt to find the killers and the killers' attempt to get the press to notice what they are doing so that tourists and retirees will stay out of Florida. It is entertaining and cleverly written. If you aren't Florida and even if you are the constant environmentalist messages may bother you. Hiassen definitely has a one issue approach for why tourists are bad.
Tourist Season is full of dark humor that still resonates today.
Great idea
I was surprised to see that Tourist Season was published almost 20 years ago. It is still a good read today and the issues are still the same: people coming to Florida to retire and die and people coming to Florida on vacation and exploiting the state and the natives.
For me, as a resident of Florida, Tourist Season resonated with my concerns. Tourism creates jobs but they are bad jobs. And despite the Everglades and opportunity for ecotourism, most tourists come to Florida to enter the brightly painted plastic and concrete world of Mickey. Retirees present longer lasting problems.
The title "Tourist Season" is a clever pun on one group of concerned citizens' plan to deal with tourism. In an attempt to reduce Florida's image as one big happy sunshiny beach they being a series of planned attacks on tourism. The idea is to scare off the tourists to protect Florida's ecosystem and economy. Killings and kidnappings are the plan of attack. What seems like an obvious warning to the anti-tourist revolutionaries - a dismembered city official covered in sunscreen and placed in a suitcase with a rubber alligator in his mouth - is written off by police as an oddity and not a political message.
Tourist Season follows an ex-reporter's attempt to find the killers and the killers' attempt to get the press to notice what they are doing so that tourists and retirees will stay out of Florida. It is entertaining and cleverly written. If you aren't Florida and even if you are the constant environmentalist messages may bother you. Hiassen definitely has a one issue approach for why tourists are bad.
Tourist Season is full of dark humor that still resonates today.
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