Stormy Weather

Funny read

At first I was a little hesitant with this book, but it proved me wrong. My first Carl Hiassen book was skinny dip and I was totally addicted. The same happened with this book. The characters are just so unique...especially Skink. You get so into the story that you never want to put it down no matter how much your eyes hurt...

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To sprewleaf

Sorry!! Thanks for offering 2 take care of me! Tigerkit

Rainsky

Can I br medi cat?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS

Will some one go to powerfulclan first rdsult and say stormstar is locked out and tell them to move to tous?~stormstar

Tigerpaw to anyone

Someone please go to winnie the horse first result and tell lilystar that tigerpaw is locked out and ask her if she can move camp to horsies thanks. (Tigerpaw{she cat})

Wolf cub

Runs in * help my mommy* he cries erin hunter result one...

Jynxedluck

Yeah don't fight pples

Blue ear

*runs off*

Sweetstar

Hi herbheart. Be prepared for injuries cuz we r leading a patrol against foxes

Dustclaw

Heloo every one

HEY!

I came to the review page to find out more about this book, but all I can find is stuff about your imagionary clan. PLEASE, keep the clan stuff to the Warrior Cat Books. This is just too far. Its obnoxious!

Other things I wish B & N carried

I loved the book. It was fantastically funny!!! I, however, have been looking for this great game that I heard of and I understand that you all don't carry it. StoryClub games, Girls Night Edition. Can you look into this for me? So many of my friends are in neighborhood Mom's night groups and they are playing this. I would rather buy it from B & N and give you the business than order from the website. Please advise. Thank you so much.

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Wacky trip into a post-hurricane Florida

I had heard a lot about Carl Hiaasen, especially from some friends whose taste in books I trust, and so on their suggestion, I picked up Stormy Weather. Because his books are shelved in the mystery section of most bookstores I visit, I expected this one to read like a mystery. Instead it seemed more of a combination satire, slice of life, and environmental commentary. Even so, or perhaps precisely because of these things, I enjoyed the book enormously. Hiaasen's writing is clever and deft, full of a vivid eccentricity of people and place that effortlessly drew me in. I look forward to reading more of his work.

A reviewer

This is wild and wacky stuff if I've ever seen it, with more than a tinge of backswamp, corrupt characters. I like it best when the animals--human and otherwise--get loose because of the hurricane, and true Jumanji-like madness ensues, in a posthurripocalyptic stew of Shakespearean insanity. Greed, corruption, lust, betrayal....plus some really shady insurance deals! Overall, great stuff for the reader, not so great for the fictional insurance companies.

Good but not his best

I've pretty much read all of Hiassen's books and thought this was one pretty good but not his best. I actually think he just had slightly too many characters in this story with their own separate storylines that kind of interrupted the flow of the story. Hiaasen though is an incredible storyteller with a unique and twisted sense of humor and I am looking forward to future stories from him.

We are amused

Our book club recently took on three VERY good books. The first was 'Life of Pi,' by Martel, which most people have read. The second was McCrae's 'Katzenjammer' (hilarious by the way), and the third was this excellent novel, 'Stormy Weather.' This was my first Hiaason novel, but it certainly won't be my last. I had heard about Hiassen, and that his books can get pretty 'out there' at times, but I didn't find this one to be offensive. A little off the wall, but not something I wouldn't recommend to another reader. The characters in this novel are what make it great---really off-the wall stuff here with Augustine who juggles skulls, to the unnerving Skink. The list goes on and on, and the book is, essentially, character driven--what you want in a novel. The main story centers around Max and Bonnie--a couple on their honeymoon---who are in 'Disney World during a hurricane. The wife wants to get on with the after-wedding items, but husband Max wants to get footage of said hurricane, or rather the destruction it has caused. Enter turmoil. The title is not only appropriate for the storm and all its aftermath, but the relationships in the book as well. Hiassen is a master storyteller and I'd recommend this easy and entertaining read to anyone.

Another great book

In Stormy Weather a hurricane hits southern Florida wiping out trailer parks, houses and anything in its path. Looters and con artists are of course drawn like magnets trying to prosper from the victims, as are honeymooners Max and Bonny Lamb. Max drags his reluctant new bride to the devastation so he can get it all on film to impress his yuppie friends back in New York but disappears while following an escaped monkey. Ex governor now living in the wilderness Skeet knows where he is as he has taken him prisoner to teach him some lessons. Meanwhile a dishonest caravan salesman is planning on how to survive the vengeance of his customers who have lost their homes and their loved ones while con artist roofing contractors take deposits and never return to their victims until they rip off the wrong people. With the same great writing you¿ll find in either Elmore Leonard¿s books ¿Get Shorty,¿ or McCrae¿s ¿A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens,¿ you¿re bound to enjoy this Hiassen book. I did.

A Pulitzer Prize!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the best books that I have ever read. You just have to to love the wacky cast of characters, especially 'Skink'. A truly Great Book

this was ODD not funny

This was the first book of his that I've read and the last. I was looking for a good mystery and Stormy Weather had no mystery. What it did have was way too many unlikable characters.

It doesn't get any better than this!

One of my favorite books by my favorite author, Carl Hiaasen. A 'must read' for all Floridians who would like to have the state to themselves, just for once, without 'Northern' invasion. I laugh myself silly when telling people what the book is about! Everyone needs a governor like Clinton Tyree, otherwise known as 'Skink' to set things straight.