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Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling novels, think again. Dance of the Reptiles collects the best of Hiaasen’s Miami Herald columns, which lay bare the stories--large and small--that demonstrate anew that truth is far stranger than fiction. Hiaasen offers his commentary—indignant, disbelieving, sometimes righteously angry, and frequently hilarious—on burning issues like animal welfare, polluted rivers, and the broken criminal justice system as well as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Bernie Madoff's trial, and the shenanigans of the recent presidential elections. Whether or not you have read Carl Hiaasen before, you are in for a wild ride.
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"Carl Hiaasen on his home turf of Florida again absolutely delights. This is one more unputdownable book from him.Filled with weird chactercters and wild events; There is Marco Rubio with his genius thirst quencher and there is a goat fuck ( literally). And no fiction either. Arte Johnson's narration makes Carl Hiaasen's wit and uncanny observations come alive in a way that is sheer joy to listen."
— Vilas (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Lively and well-reported…Illuminated by all the wit and keen descriptive powers of his fiction.”
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“Shows you that Hiaasen’s seemingly implausible fictional premises aren’t really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida.”
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“Will be immediately popular with his fans.”
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“Entertaining…Hilarious and unnerving…for Hiaasen’s ability to awaken outrage and for his eye for oddity.”
— Booklist -
“Hiaasen employs a seasoned bullshit detector that is among the most acute in American journalism…If Florida is the poster child for a nation’s fiscal and political disintegration, Hiaasen is the state’s galloping knight (in)errant, slaying the dragons of ineptitude, arrogance and idiocy.”
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“Hiaasen employs a seasoned bullshit detector that is among the most acute in American journalism…If Florida is the poster child for a nation’s fiscal and political disintegration, Hiaasen is the state’s galloping knight (in)errant, slaying the dragons of ineptitude, arrogance and idiocy.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
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A New York Times bestseller
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An NPR bestseller
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Christian Wendt, 11/28/2023
About Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen is a successful journalist and novelist. He is a writer and investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, and his work has appeared in Time, Life, Esquire, Playboy, Gourmet, and Sports Illustrated. His earliest novels—Powder Burn, Trap Line, and A Death In China—were cowritten with fellow journalist Bill Montalbano. Since then, he has written books in a variety of genres. His novel Strip Tease was made into a movie in 1996, and his young adult novel Hoot, a Newbery honoree, was made into a movie in May 2006. A number of Hiassen’s works have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, including Star Island, Chomp, Sick Puppy, and Scat. In addition to being a writer, Hiassen is also a public speaker. He lives in Florida with his family.
About Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson is an award-winning narrator and an American comic actor who won an Emmy Award for his role in the television series Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. His audiobook narations have won two AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he placed as a finalist for the Audie Award for best narration in 2003 and 2007.