Bad Monkey Audiobook

Quotes

• [A] comedic marvel . . . [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip. . . . Beautifully constructed.

  — Janet Maslin, The New York Times

• [A] deliciously zany romp. Buckle up for the ride.

  — People

• Bad Monkey boils over with corruption and comeuppance. And yes, there’s a monkey.

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• [A] rollicking misadventure in the colorful annals of greed and corruption in South Florida. . . . Hiaasen has a peculiar genius for inventing grotesque creatures . . . that spring from the darkest impulses of the id. But he also writes great heroes.

  — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times

• This ‘Triple-F

  — fierce, funny, and Floridian . . . enfolds corruption, greed, mayhem, and very funny social satire in the way that only Hiaasen does it.

• [Hiaasen is] one of America’s premier humorists.

  — Rege Behe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• No one writes about Florida with a more wicked sense of humor than Hiaasen.

  — Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today

• The gold standard for South Florida criminal farce.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Inspired . . . Another marvelously entertaining Hiaasen adventure.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Hiaasen is laugh-out-loud funny and thoroughly entertaining.

  — Thomas Gaughan, Booklist (starred)

• Carl Hiaasen isn’t just Florida’s sharpest satirist—he’s one of the few funny writers left in the whole country . . . I think of him as a national treasure.

  — Malcolm Jones, Newsweek

• Does anyone remember what we did for fun before Hiaasen began turning out his satirical comedies?

  — Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle

• Hiaasen [is] a superb national satirist . . . A great American writer about the great American subjects of ambition, greed, vanity and disappointment.

  — Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly

• Hiaasen’s wasteland is as retributive as Cormac McCarthy’s, but funnier. . . .  [His] pacing is impeccable, and the scenes follow one another like Lay’s potato chips.

  — John Leland, The New York Times Book Review

• Hiaasen [is] king of the screwball comedies . . . A truly original comic novelist . . . The charismatic, animated characters deliver lines that will bring tears of laughter to even the most jaundiced readers . . . This is top-notch storytelling by a truly original comic novelist.

  — Clayton Moore, Rocky Mountain News

• Carl Hiaasen is a lot like Evelyn Waugh. . . . Both simmer with rage; both are consumed with the same overwhelming vision . . . [both] write the funniest English of this century.

  — Carolyn See, The Washington Post

• Hiaasen [is] in the company of Preston Sturges, Woody Allen, and S. J. Perelman.

  — Janet Maslin, The New York Times

• A big-hearted and deeply funny book . . . All of Carl Hiaasen’s obsessions are on full-tilt boogie.

  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times

• Hiaasen, like Elmore Leonard, shouldn’t be missed. . . . Hiaasen throws his colorful characters into an increasingly frenetic mix, and the fun lies in watching how, or if, they’ll manage to extricate themselves.

  — David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle

• Whenever it seems as if he might be running out of oxen to gore, Hiaasen comes up with fresh victims for his killing wit. [He is] Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic . . . Outlandish events soar on the exuberance of Hiaasen’s manic style, a canny blend of lunatic farce and savage satire.

  — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

• A whole lot ‘Survivor,’ a little bit ‘The Tempest,’ with a pinch of Laurel and Hardy . . . Hiaasen is always good for a number of laugh-aloud scenes and lines . . . His ear is pitch-perfect.

  — Alan Michael Parker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• Hilarious . . . A lifelong resident of the Sunshine State, [Hiaasen’s] novels have always addressed the state’s ecological and social ills with scathing satire, ironic comeuppance and an ever-evolving sensibility.

  — Dan Lopez, Time Out New York