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Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can’t tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his gorgeous wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An practiced swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot-and then to an island inhabited by an ex-cop named Mick Stranahan, whose ex-wives include five waitresses and a TV producer. Now Joey wants to get revenge on Chaz and Mick’s pleased to help her.But in swampy South Florida, separating lies from truths and stupidity from brilliance isn’t simple. Especially when you’re after a guy like Chaz-who’s terrible at murder, fantastic at fraud, and just terrible at getting caught…Amazon.com Review
Charles “Chaz” Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this “biologist by defaulting” suspects that his bent wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he’s running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out straight away to solve the problem–by bursting at the seams Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But–whoops!–Joey, a ex- swimming champ, doesn’t drown. As a replacement for, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Emaciated Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Forceful, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail battle that’s guaranteed to drive her bone idle, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy.
You’ve got to hand it to Hiaasen: He’s perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less painstakingly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida’s environment, particularly the Everglades. In Emaciated Dip, we find Chaz (who’d rather be golfing than puttering around the “hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous” reaches of scenery) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the ‘Glades into “God’s septic tank.” That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey’s sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz’s own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter–the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool–Hammernut can’t keep his pet biologist out of distress. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool’s conscience grows in competition with Chaz’s ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck yet to be.
As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what’s missing from Emaciated Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan’s character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, from Strip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but “hero” Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. –J. Kingston Pierce
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About three quarters of the way through the book, I place it on the shelf – - never to be selected-up again. I should add that whatever it is that the leader wanted to say – - it is extremely well-written.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The information about the Everglades is nice, but the book had absolutely no character development. None of the characters ever changed. I feel terrible that my library has multiple copies of this book and is still prominently showing them.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I despised everything about this book. The plot was predictable and the dialogue was laughably wretched. This book has no redeeming qualities. None.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Don’t judge the hype. This book is predicatble with a weak plot, just like a day time soap.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
How?! How can so many readers and critics find this book “entertaining and amusing”? This was my first book by Carl Hiaasen, and it ongoing out pretty excellent for this reader, but then the tale and characters went to cartoon-land (hence the jacket take in)and left me dazed and confused as to what is supposed to be a excellent book these days.
Prior to reading “Emaciated dip” I had just re-read “Catcher in the Rye” which I DID find “amusing” and “entertaining” (gentle steer), so maybe I was a small jaded, expecting a small too much from a modern day best seller.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5