Title: Carl, You Ain't No Kinky Friedman
Product review: Carl shouldn't have to try so hard. After all, the protagonist is a hack columnist for a Florida newspaper (Wow, what a stretch! Hey, your Miami Herald teammate Dave Barry is able to push the envelope more than that!), but in Hiaasen's backbreaking effort to be droll, he does little but weave a heavy-handed, mean-spirited caricature of Florida's "little people" (in the sense that Hillary or Leona considers most of us little people).The net product is an ugly yarn that goes on too long. For a dark, misanthropic, sarcastic novel with outlandish characters that is actually funny, I recommend Kinky Friedman, who manages to amuse while getting his "politically correct" (guns and Republicans are bad) point across. Try "Spanking Watson" or "Roadkill" for some real fun.
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