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[A] comedic marvel . . . [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip. . . . Beautifully constructed.
— Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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[A] deliciously zany romp. Buckle up for the ride.
— People
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Bad Monkey boils over with corruption and comeuppance. And yes, there’s a monkey.
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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[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
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This ‘Triple-F
— fierce, funny, and Floridian . . . enfolds corruption, greed, mayhem, and very funny social satire in the way that only Hiaasen does it.
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[Hiaasen is] one of America’s premier humorists.
— Rege Behe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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No one writes about Florida with a more wicked sense of humor than Hiaasen.
— Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today
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The gold standard for South Florida criminal farce.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Inspired . . . Another marvelously entertaining Hiaasen adventure.
— Publishers Weekly
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Hiaasen is laugh-out-loud funny and thoroughly entertaining.
— Thomas Gaughan, Booklist (starred)
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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
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Does anyone remember what we did for fun before Hiaasen began turning out his satirical comedies?
— Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hiaasen [is] in the company of Preston Sturges, Woody Allen, and S. J. Perelman.
— Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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A big-hearted and deeply funny book . . . All of Carl Hiaasen’s obsessions are on full-tilt boogie.
— Adam Woog, The Seattle Times
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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
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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
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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
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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