books by Laurence Shames

books by Laurence Shames

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Laurence Shames

Laurence Shames

Backinprint.com, 2000

sort of a man's equivalent to a Stephanie Plum book...
Janet Evanovich writes an extraordinary successful series of funny crime stories starring Stephanie Plum, the bounty hunter who happens to be a babe. While they should have universal appeal it seems that the publishers target them to women (..guys don't like buying ...

Florida Straits

Laurence Shames

Dell, 1993

Couldn't put it down even when I reached the end....
I have never read the same book twice in one weekend. Before. Even this jaded reader was surprised at the turns of this plot. You can smell Key West, the descriptions are so keen. And he does a wonderful thing in tracing a character's emotions in elegant detail - ...

Scavenger Reef

Laurence Shames

Dell, 1995

Shames leaves thugs and enters a world of light
With Scavenger Reef, Laurence Shames leaves his entertaining crowd of displaced mafia thugs and paints a stunning portrait of a creative life in a real-world (if Kew-West-surreal) context. As a growing fan of the Florida mysteries by Leonard, Hiaasen, Hall, Shames, ...

The Hunger for More

Laurence Shames

Crown, 1989

Needs, wants, values, greed and are we having fun yet?
Now is the time to read The Hunger for More because it is possible to look back and reflect on Shames's thoughts and predictions. "Hunger" is one of the most readable accounts of the social and economic forces of the last few decades, how American life has been ...

Virgin Heat: A Novel

Laurence Shames

Hyperion Books, 1998

A masterpiece of wordsmithing
This is the first Laurence Shames novel I read, but after finishing it I purchased four more of his works. Granted, this book will never win the Nobel prize for literature, but his use of words is nothing short of spectacular. After reading the first ten pages or so, ...

Welcome to Paradise

Laurence Shames

Fawcett, 2000

"It's worth reading twice"
I have read all of Laurence Shames books and find them all very exiting and he keeps you on the edge of your seat. I thought Welcome to Paradise is one of his best yet. It seems that every book he writes just gets better. This book was so good that they could make a ...

The Naked Detective

Laurence Shames

Backinprint.com, 2007

Not Awful, Not Special, Just OK.
The reluctant hero gets a whole twist in this lightweight Key West romp, in which retired 47-year old Pete Amsterdam is dragged from the comforts of his hot tub, wine cellar, and regular tennis game by a bartender hiding out from a local Mafia type. Pete is technically ...

Tropical Depression

Laurence Shames

Backinprint.com, 2000

The Bra King does It again
I have currently read Tropical Depression by Laurence Shames. This book was about a man going through a semi-stage of depression.Murray Zimmelman is going through his second divorce while contemplating suicide.Suddenly he snaps and drives 14 hours non-stop to Key West ...

Mangrove Squeeze

Laurence Shames

Ballantine Books, 1999

Laugh Out Loud Funny!
I had really liked Florida Straights, so I decided to give this one a try. And I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard! I kept waking my girlfriend up I was laughing so hard in bed! This book has the kind of wry sense of humor that is so hard to find. It also ...

Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived

Laurence Shames, Peter Barton

Harper Perennial, 2004

I randomly selected this book...and I'm glad I did
I happened upon an advance uncorrected proof of this book quite by accident. I read a few sentences and thought, "Why not give it a read?" Well, I have to say that the book - both the writing and the content - are absolutely wonderful. Laurence Shames gets all the ...

Living Large: A Big Man's Ideas on Weight, Success, and Acceptance

Michael S. Berman, Laurence Shames

Rodale Books, 2006

An extraordinarily compelling, honest account.
I'm neither a man, nor overweight, but neverthelesss I found LIVING LARGE to be a fascinating book. I read it in two sittings. Berman's account of his struggle with food--with the yo-yo of weight gains, the humiliations of being fat, the sheer discomfort of the extra ...

The Big Time: The Harvard Business School's Most Successful Class and How It Shaped America
Laurence Shames

Backinprint.com, 2002

1949 was a pivotal moment of economic dominance; the MBA was still exotic, arcane, and swaggeringly potent. The men of Harvard Business School 49 would be the class the dollars fell on. By 1974, nearly one 49er in five was a millionaire. Forty-five percent were chairmen, presidents, or chief operating officers. The men of HBS 49, however, hadn't ...