Native Tongue (Paperback)

from Al-G

Another great book by Hiaasen! His plots are complex and delightfully convaluted which is amplified by his assemblage of whacky and idiosyntric characters. While Skink and his compatriot Jim Tile are the characters that tie these stories together, they are really the supporting cast to an array o...

from richardderus

Blue-tongued mango voles. If you've read the book, you've now collapsed on the floor howling in remembered glee. If you haven't read the book before, well, it's time now. Mix Hiaasen's trademark hapless idiot criminals, burnt-out losers, small-minded grifters, and slimy real estate developers, ad...

from LibraryCin

3.75 stars Two endangered voles (a specific type) - in fact the last ones on Earth! - are stolen from Animal Kingdom, a theme park/zoo in the Florida Keys. Characters in the book include the two bandits and an old woman (an activist who has a penchant for guns!), who get to know each other; the o...

from brokenangelkisses

When a story opens with a rat being thrown from one car into another one that just happens to be passing, you know that you're in for an odd story. Of course, this being Carl Hiaasen's story, it's not even as simple as that. The 'rat' is in fact a blue-tongued mango vole, one of only two remainin...

from madamejeanie

Francis X. Kingsbury is one of the sleaziest multi-millionaires in the state of Florida. He's got a very murky past and can't speak in complete sentences if his life depended on it. But he's the proud owner of a theme park called the Amazing Kingdom, one of the most unsafe places on earth And tou...