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SETUP
(The following setup is more detailed than normally necessary, because most readers will be hopelessly confused by the numerous characters.): Erin Grant is working as a stripper to try to raise money to get custody of her daughter from her sleazy husband, Daryl (who makes a living as a police informant and stealing wheelchairs). One night a customer, Jerry Killian (who has a crush on Erin), recognizes Congressman David Dilbeck when he assaults another customer, Paul Gruber. Through Dilbeck's assistant, Herb Crandall Jerry attempts to blackmail Dilbeck to put pressure on the local judge to rule in Erin's favor in the custody battle. Dilbeck is the chief supporter of huge subsidies to the sugar industry, and therefore essential, so, sugar-industry fixer Malcolm Muldowski murders Jerry. Dade County homicide Sergeant Al Garcia, on vacation in Montana, finds Jerry's body.

In the meantime, Gruber has lied to his fiancee saying that he was mugged in a synagogue parking lot, and so she essentially forces him to file a suit with her cousin lawyer Mordecai. Mordecai also represents the strip-club bouncer Shad in a bogus law suit against a yogurt company.

COMMENTS--Carl Hiaasen General
Ya gotta appreciate Hiaasen's cynical, quirky, surreal, almost comic-book style to fully appreciate this novel. To some extent, Hiaasen is an acquired taste, but once acquired, becomes a habit. Hiaasen's humor is dark, witty, sarcastic, and filled with brilliant political satire and irony. But just under the cover of the humor is genuine poignant human emotions and drama.

Hiaasen's unrelenting dark cynicism is sometimes uncomfortable for anyone, and more-so for South Floridians. It is not an exaggeration to say that he "rips the cover off of hell" and shows us all the dark slimy things we would rather not think about. The portrayal of South Florida as hell/paradise is dead-on accurate. I suggest alternating Hiaasen's serious adult novels, with his wonderful kid's novels (such as Flush or Scat)--or be sure to take your Prozac before starting an adult Hiaasen novel.

COMMENTS--Strip Tease Specific
Like most Hiaasen novels, "Strip Tease" is front-loaded. When it seems as though the story has run its course and the resolution is pending--you are only 1/3rd into the novel. Hiaasen takes a breather, and then keeps going.

The plot thread about the car being chained to a derelict ship which is then sunk as an artificial reef is implausible. But the whole "theatre of the absurd" novel is implausible. Even so, this is a bit much. Just consider the difficulty of getting a crane and crane operator to load the car onto the ship in the dead of night, and then the likelihood that it would be blown up an sunk without being inspected. And then too, anyone would be have to be insane to try to feed moray eels in murky water. Besides, moray eels don't just swim around in open water looking for sunken ships to inhabit. Instead, they arrive as "plankton", and take a decade or so to grow up. Moreover that the woman's boyfriend is "playing with a baby sea turtle" is completely bogus. Seaturtles hatch, and then disappear, somewhere--they are NEVER encountered by divers. Apparently the purpose of this thread was an excuse for Hiaasen to carp about damage to the reefs. Heaven knows there are plenty of real environmental issues to carp about in South Florida. But, in truth, the reefs were never spectacular at or north of Miami, and secondly the reefs, such as they are, are mostly healthy (except in the immediate vicinity of former sewage outfalls). The major enemies of coral reefs are silt and freshwater--both of which have probably been REDUCED by the development along the coast.

What can't audiobook readers pronounce common local terms correctly, particularly terms which are pronounced as spelled?. Burdines (a famous department store), now tragically ruined by Mace's, was pronounced "Burr dines" not "Burr-deans". Similarly, the large cooking bananas, plantains, are pronounced as spelled---"plan-tains" (rhymes with "trains"), not "pla-taans". "Tamiami" is "Tami-ami" not "Tam-miami"

THE VERDICT
A masterpiece of dark humor, even better on the second or third read.

> Click on “Stoney” just below the product title to see my other reviews, or leave a comment to ask a question.


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Strip Tease Carl Hiaasen 9780446695671 Books Reviews

I had read it before. I have been dating a stripper and so I really indentified with the books subject matter. Carl Haasen writes of Florida and this is no exception. I gave my other copy to my striipper friend, and so this was a replacement. The plot turns on a couple and their daughter. However The female Erin wants her daughter back and her ex-husband is keeping her. The judge who ruled that Erin could not have her daughter is a regular at the strip club. There are numerous interesting subplots Back stage at the Eager Beaver, the strip club. This involves the various strippers who work with Erin. There is tension between the manager of this strip club and another strip club. A congressman is heavily involved with the striip club. He is in electoral trouble and loves strippers. To protect him, at least 3 murcers are committted. I really enjoyed reading it. It is well worth reading.
I'm reading the Hiaasen books in order, starting with "Tourist Season," and this is the first that left me a bit underwhelmed. Like the earlier novels, this one is smart and well written, and has its pleasures. But in the first four, Hiaasen created vibrant parallel universes that conveyed a sense of Florida familiarity only to revel in extraordinary wildness. The worlds of bass fishing or cosmetic surgery, peopled with extreme eccentrics, filled with bodies being deconstructed like weird sentences, were exhilarating to encounter. "Strip Tease" is solid but has less of that jaw-dropping otherness. I think the problem is the setting. In a sense, Hiaasen (and Al Garcia) are too respectful of the "dancers," who are all purified of any vices whatsoever. Erin, the main character, is one version of a sexist male fantasy the good, chaste, beautiful woman who refuses to compromise her ethics and strips only for the most moral reason to get her daughter back. Even Moldy and the congressman are less outrageous than the oddball villains in earlier novels. Finally, putting Erin's daughter in the middle of things backfires, at least for me there's nothing entertaining about the custody fight, and it's as if Hiaasen is pinned down by these situations rather than liberated. That said, it still has lively moments and a satisfying ending. I'm looking forward to reading "Stormy Weather"!
This story got off to a bit if a slow start for me. I stuck with it because I enjoyed the writing. Boy, am I glad I did.

I won’t give away details here, but the story slowly builds up steam to about the halfway point, then starts to take off.

I normally can tell where a story is going. This one surprised me at more than one step. The ending was totally unexpected, but made sense in retrospect. All the way through, I could not tell who would live, and who would die. This extended to every character, including our hero (heroes?).

The denouement is a little trite, but oddly satisfying.

The subplots are as much fun as the plot, and almost more interesting.

I definitely rate this five stars despite the few weaknesses, heartily recommend it to you, and plan to look for more by this author as soon as I submit this review.
I saw the movie years ago and finally read the book. Carl writes a funny story that Hollywood just couldn't reproduce.

Erin Grant works at the Eager Beaver, a nude dancing club to pay for her divorce from Darrell Grant, a real low life who steals wheelchairs and is a CI for the police. Her coworkers have their own schemes of getting rich, from placing critters in dairy products to being swept away by the next star who walks through the doors. Then there is David Dilbeck and his posse. Erb and Moldowski try very hard to keep the sex-starved David from breaking any laws while ensuring the almighty sugar tax stays in place.

Carl has a unique way of removing the bad, and sometimes the good, guys from the story. Sometimes half the fun is reading how Carl knocks off his characters. It's a really fun book.
SETUP
(The following setup is more detailed than normally necessary, because most readers will be hopelessly confused by the numerous characters.) Erin Grant is working as a stripper to try to raise money to get custody of her daughter from her sleazy husband, Daryl (who makes a living as a police informant and stealing wheelchairs). One night a customer, Jerry Killian (who has a crush on Erin), recognizes Congressman David Dilbeck when he assaults another customer, Paul Gruber. Through Dilbeck's assistant, Herb Crandall Jerry attempts to blackmail Dilbeck to put pressure on the local judge to rule in Erin's favor in the custody battle. Dilbeck is the chief supporter of huge subsidies to the sugar industry, and therefore essential, so, sugar-industry fixer Malcolm Muldowski murders Jerry. Dade County homicide Sergeant Al Garcia, on vacation in Montana, finds Jerry's body.

In the meantime, Gruber has lied to his fiancee saying that he was mugged in a synagogue parking lot, and so she essentially forces him to file a suit with her cousin lawyer Mordecai. Mordecai also represents the strip-club bouncer Shad in a bogus law suit against a yogurt company.

COMMENTS--Carl Hiaasen General
Ya gotta appreciate Hiaasen's cynical, quirky, surreal, almost comic-book style to fully appreciate this novel. To some extent, Hiaasen is an acquired taste, but once acquired, becomes a habit. Hiaasen's humor is dark, witty, sarcastic, and filled with brilliant political satire and irony. But just under the cover of the humor is genuine poignant human emotions and drama.

Hiaasen's unrelenting dark cynicism is sometimes uncomfortable for anyone, and more-so for South Floridians. It is not an exaggeration to say that he "rips the cover off of hell" and shows us all the dark slimy things we would rather not think about. The portrayal of South Florida as hell/paradise is dead-on accurate. I suggest alternating Hiaasen's serious adult novels, with his wonderful kid's novels (such as Flush or Scat)--or be sure to take your Prozac before starting an adult Hiaasen novel.

COMMENTS--Strip Tease Specific
Like most Hiaasen novels, "Strip Tease" is front-loaded. When it seems as though the story has run its course and the resolution is pending--you are only 1/3rd into the novel. Hiaasen takes a breather, and then keeps going.

The plot thread about the car being chained to a derelict ship which is then sunk as an artificial reef is implausible. But the whole "theatre of the absurd" novel is implausible. Even so, this is a bit much. Just consider the difficulty of getting a crane and crane operator to load the car onto the ship in the dead of night, and then the likelihood that it would be blown up an sunk without being inspected. And then too, anyone would be have to be insane to try to feed moray eels in murky water. Besides, moray eels don't just swim around in open water looking for sunken ships to inhabit. Instead, they arrive as "plankton", and take a decade or so to grow up. Moreover that the woman's boyfriend is "playing with a baby sea turtle" is completely bogus. Seaturtles hatch, and then disappear, somewhere--they are NEVER encountered by divers. Apparently the purpose of this thread was an excuse for Hiaasen to carp about damage to the reefs. Heaven knows there are plenty of real environmental issues to carp about in South Florida. But, in truth, the reefs were never spectacular at or north of Miami, and secondly the reefs, such as they are, are mostly healthy (except in the immediate vicinity of former sewage outfalls). The major enemies of coral reefs are silt and freshwater--both of which have probably been REDUCED by the development along the coast.

What can't audiobook readers pronounce common local terms correctly, particularly terms which are pronounced as spelled?. Burdines (a famous department store), now tragically ruined by Mace's, was pronounced "Burr dines" not "Burr-deans". Similarly, the large cooking bananas, plantains, are pronounced as spelled---"plan-tains" (rhymes with "trains"), not "pla-taans". "Tamiami" is "Tami-ami" not "Tam-miami"

THE VERDICT
A masterpiece of dark humor, even better on the second or third read.

> Click on “Stoney” just below the product title to see my other reviews, or leave a comment to ask a question.