"Never another Carl Hiaasen book for me"
I cannot imagine anyone being able to get thru this book. . .most irritating. . .
at this point, I do not know
always excellent narrater
I couldn't find even 1 character with redeeming qualities
Loved all Carl Hiaasen's earlier books, so I do not understand why I was totally unable to get into this one. So disappointing...Mac
"Native Tongue - a Carl Hiaasen laugh riot"
This book does not disappoint the reader in any way. Carl Hiaasen outdoes himself in prose and wit; the laughs-out-loud and shocked gasps available to the audio book reader are true treasures! The characters are well-rounded and we glimpse them as we look into the crowds around us. Falling in love with his writing is easy. Easier still is seeing how right he is about the destruction of wildlife and the environment by big money. Write on, Carl!
"I liked it"
It gets very funny towards the middle/end--hang in there. Not one of my favorites but good.
"Just a fun story"
Not great literature. Not terribly complicated. Interesting characters. Likable main character. Fun plot How can you not like an ornery libidinous dolphin?
"narration review"
Too long of gaps, pauses, breaks. Narrator has good acting skills for voices but leaves way to much empy air between breaks. He also has a bit of an audio intake, or his breath is very noticeable.
"Dreadful..."
This book was awful. I was looking for something funny to listen to and was very disappointed. The characters, scenario, setting, all of it was just ridiculous. The amount of times I thought “well that would never happen, could never happen, not even in a different reality” were numerous. The author seems to have not worried about researching any of the topics or procedures that he described and just gone with what he thought it might be like. It felt trapped in a child's make-believe rendition of the day's events: “And then we went here and this happened, oh and then I did this, and then a giant came into the room and stepped on us all”. So much of this book is just utter rubbish that it's hard to really explain. The characters are like cartoon characters, over the top and without any depth, awful stereotypes that come across as moronic and wooden. It could be just the fact that the book was so awful, but the narrator's performance was not fantastic either. The high-pitched squeaky voice he used for so many of the male characters was irritating and distracting.