Yes, two books in a row by the same author. What can I do? It's one of those two-in-one volumes.
Another amusing, fluffy, vaguely nonsensical Florida based crime/comedy novel. This time it starts in a strip joint and ends in a sugar cane field.
Light 'n easy...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Native Tongue - Carl Hiaasen
Hurray! Fluff!
Light, easy, and not completely insipid.
From the back: PR man Joe Wilder didn't believe the theft of the last two blue-tongued voles on earth from a billionaire's Florida theme park. He just wrote the story. Before he could say Robbie Raccoon, he was hiding out in the Everglades with a one-eyed man and a gun toting granny in pink curlers, and ready to put the skids on the craziest crime con in the history of the state.
I think it's a parody of the hard-bitten crime novel genre... even if it's not meant to be, it was fun to read.
Light, easy, and not completely insipid.
From the back: PR man Joe Wilder didn't believe the theft of the last two blue-tongued voles on earth from a billionaire's Florida theme park. He just wrote the story. Before he could say Robbie Raccoon, he was hiding out in the Everglades with a one-eyed man and a gun toting granny in pink curlers, and ready to put the skids on the craziest crime con in the history of the state.
I think it's a parody of the hard-bitten crime novel genre... even if it's not meant to be, it was fun to read.
Monday, February 20, 2006
The Constant Gardner - John le Carré
A tour de force of plot development... the plot is developed slowly and meticulously. It's not a fast moving book at all, and not as exciting as the cover suggests.
Very writerly - hints of events in the past are fleshed out later on in the book. Only the main character turns out to be particularly interesting in terms of development; everyone else is sort of just there.
The story is built on the nefarious activities of 'big pharma', and essentially the argument against those activities drives the actions of the protagonists.
If it wasn't for the qualities of the writing, this would be a rather generic take on the 'big pharma does bad things' approach; however, le Carré manages to heighten the sinister without sounding like a loony lefty.
Very writerly - hints of events in the past are fleshed out later on in the book. Only the main character turns out to be particularly interesting in terms of development; everyone else is sort of just there.
The story is built on the nefarious activities of 'big pharma', and essentially the argument against those activities drives the actions of the protagonists.
If it wasn't for the qualities of the writing, this would be a rather generic take on the 'big pharma does bad things' approach; however, le Carré manages to heighten the sinister without sounding like a loony lefty.
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