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| Nature Girl | 
| Manufacturer: Knopf
Category: EBooks
List Price: $9.95
Buy New: $7.96
You Save: $1.99 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  154 reviews
Sales Rank: 5762
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000MAH7OU
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
gone wild in Florida February 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Almost everyone hurt in this one... one step from a tragedy.
It appears that the only ones who get a good meal in this comedy
are the mosquitoes. A crazy vision seeing Indian, Sammy Tigertail,
and a crazy white woman, Honey Santana,
seem to be the sanest of the characters by the end of the book.
This may be a comment on modern life that
trying to get away from it all is as dangerous as any city...
Guns, knives and electric guitars as deadly weapons.
I can't call this great art, but it was an entertaining read.
 Fun, typical Hiaasen February 14, 2008
Bought this for my husband for vacation reading. He laughed a lot at the start of the book. Enjoyed the read. I have not read yet....wainting for time at the pool this summer.
 Nature Nut February 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didn't enjoy this book as much as I have previous Hiaasen novels. (I've read two others, Lucky You and Tourist Season). The book moved quickly and the writing was witty and funny, but I never really got the point of it.
I kept reading and reading, hoping that I would find the plot and I never really did. I guess it was Honey Santana attempting to get revenge on Boyd Shreave, the innocuous telemarketer from Texas. But it was all kind of pointless to me. Where was the mystery? The likable characters?
I also never felt like there was anyone to root for, except Fry and I mostly felt sorry for him because his mother was a loon and you can't choose your mother. I think my main problem with this book, and it seems other reviewers agree, is that I didn't really like Honey. She annoyed me more than anything with her manic craziness and I kept waiting for her to get punished in someway. And it never happened.
I did, however, enjoy Sammy Tigertail (nephew of Tommy from Tourist Season oddly enough), Gillian the bored college student, Eugenie and Dealy the PI. I wish Dealy had had more of a story and Eugenie as well, though I was glad that she made out OK in the end. Her character showed more growth than Honey.
I would recommend this book if you are a fan of Hiaasen but I wouldn't choose it as my first foray into the crazy world of Florida.
Honey Santana is off her meds... January 30, 2008
This book is funny but doesn't really take off. Yes, you do fall in love with Honey Santana and her wild antics. Boyd Shreave is a character everyone knows. I would have liked to see him killed off.
I'd skip it unless you are a mid-forties housewife. Then, some of the tales might be shocking enough to be considered funny but if you're young and have lived at all, this reads as a book that tries to be over the top but isn't.
 UGH!! What RUBBISH - January 20, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Terrible! Ugly! What a waste of money!!!
I truly like all of Hiaasen's work to date but this is nothing more than a piece of flimsy fluff that I would expect from a first-time writer - Definitely not from someone with Hiaasen's writing background and previous successes. I really tried hard to give the book a fair trial but had to give it up as a pathetic attempt by an aging author to recoup some of his earlier glory - sort of like the aging actress syndrome - I was not able to finish the book and had to put it down after a couple of hundred pages. The story line is trite, the verbage banal, and the plot - what plot??? Unlike Mr. Hiaasen's series involving the Skink character, this book was grossly unentertaining and totally lacking in any redeeming value. Cost WAY TOO MUCH and very little value returned! To say I was very disappointed would be a gross understatement!
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