
On the upside, the reader was good I'll be looking out for more of his work. Non-US readers may well find the handling of the baseball theme way too idealised and romanticised. The heroic individual determined to overcome adversity – against all medical science and logic, but what the heck. Together they wrote three mystery thrillers Powder Burn, Trap Line, and Death in China. The ending is generally weak, really unsatisfactory. Hiaasen turned to writing novels in the 1980s, first with his friend and fellow journalist, William D. There are two well fleshed out female characters, though one acts very uncharacteristically at the end, which undermines credibility. The hero is a manly man with many of the stock features of the type. Since it is set in the 1980s, the ecological theme is very minor. Heres a look at some of the 40-plus best pick up lines ever. Unfortunately, this novel is lacking in most of these elements. Carl Hiaasen While reading Dave Barrys Big Trouble, I laughed so loud I fell out of a. Maybe the Florida landscape and his strong ecological stance are also attractions.

Hiaasen fans appreciate his sly, quirky humour, convoluted plots, all-encompassing sense of impending comic doom, a thorough insights into a specialised aspect of life (bass fishing?) and characters who never, ever stop digging, because they haven't noticed the hole yet.
