In a message dated 9/19/07 4:34:46 AM,
kmontin@sympatico.ca writes:
> I've just started Carl Hiaassen's Native Tongue, in
an omnibus with Strip
> Tease. I've been on a Hiaassen's hiatus, you might
say, for a few years,
> having OD'd at one point. I'm enjoying this
one.
>
I enjoyed him very much at one time, but stopped at STORMY
WEATHER. another author I liked who was kinda like a cross
between Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard is Lawrence Shames, who
writes tough but funny stories involving east coast mobsters
in the Florida Keys
James W. Hall's crime stories set in various parts of South
FLA aren't as overtly amusing, but quirky nonetheless. he
invents things like bad guys with birth defects that make
them incapable of feeling physical pain, and winds up
dissolving them in vats of chemicals, leaving their eyeballs
floating on top. and his series character Thorne (just
Thorne) is like Travis McGee gone Thoreau
I haven't read him in some time so I'm probably blurring
details, but the gist is accurate. I'm sure Vicki has some
thoughts on Mr. Hall's work
John Lau
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