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The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Carl Hiaasen
Knopf, 2008
Poking fun at Golf
+ A really fun book
+ He's Got It...By George, He's Got It....
+ A great read
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Practical Demonkeeping
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2004
Another Gem by Christopher Moore
+ practical demonkeeping
+ Jumps around a lot; a fun read
+ What is so practical about keeping demons?
+ No More Cookie Monster For You!
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Survivor: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2000
Muahahaha
+ Great read
+ Stunning
+ Another victory for Chuck
+ Great Service
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Tourist Season
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 2005
Get everything he writes!
+ In the beginning.
+ A little darker than usual, but still good for some laughs
+ One of Hiassen's best
+ A Modern Pop Crime Masterpiece
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Nature Girl
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 2007
Great Weekend Read
+ better than what many other amazon.com reviewers suggest
+ Great Airplane/Airport Reading - Vintage Hiassen
+ jungle girl
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Wry Martinis
Christopher Buckley
Harper Perennial, 1998
Someone wicked this way comes.
+ truly funny collection
I found a good illustration of Christopher Buckley's sense of humor while reading of one of the ocean crossings that he had taken with his Father. Buckley the Elder routinely sailed an ocean every 5 years or so, and his Son was often part of the crew. All the ship's members had tasks, and on ...
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Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Buckley
Harper Perennial, 1995
smoking gun
+ Take that, political correctness!
+ Satire at its best
+ Thank You for Smoking
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Basket Case
Carl Hiaasen
Mysterious Press, 2005
Darkly funny and wildly entertaining
+ Surviving the Winter Blues
+ Hiaasen delivers again! Funny, with the obligatory twist and goofy characters.
+ Very enjoyable mystery
+ Amusing and irreverent
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Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2002
joy
+ For a very select audience
+ Funny and Disturbing
+ Wow?!?!
+ Not exactly what I was expecting
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Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2008
Fantastic
+ don't read this if your a prude...
I love Palahniuk books. But I can say, Haunted had some good short stories to it, as did Stranger than fiction. Both had perfect stories in them, complete, start to finish, work that would bring a smile to Amy Hampel's face. But this book, (Rant, not a big fan) was fantastic. Personally I don't ...
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Watch Out
Joseph Suglia
FLF Press, 2006
Best Thing Written in Ages
+ Serious Reading Make No Mistake About It.
+ Watch Out Will Change Your Life...or at Least Give You a Good Tickle
Joseph Suglia's WATCH OUT absolutely hung the moon. Some stories become apart of you forever, but this is not the case with WATCH OUT. It is something deeper than that, which is now fused to me from here on out. It's Joseph Suglia's wordings that has redefined all I've ever known or appreciated ...
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Haunted: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2006
A fantastic reading experience!
+ yikes!
I LOVED this book. The writing is excellent. The author managed to bring out a different voice for each story. There was not a false moment in the narration--it all rang true. By the end I felt like I knew these characters. In our "reality show" culture where there are so many vivid examples of how ...
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Double Whammy
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 1989
An Easy Read
+ Very entertaining
+ He's Done it Again
+ Wonderfully funny even if you don't like fishing
+ Definitely worth the read!
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Little Green Men: A Novel
Christopher Buckley, Random House Inc.
Harper Perennial, 2000
Good God! Is Buckley the Greatest living writer?!
+ Amusing
+ Was this alien BO?
+ I could almost believe it
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A Dirty Job: A Novel
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 2006
Fun Book - Like Bear!
+ Try Moore if you haven't...you will either love or hate him
+ Humorous & not what I expected
+ Superb Supernatural San Francisco
+ funny
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