Florida Roadkill

By: Tim Dorsey

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals - and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs... and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s. In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida - where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!

©1999 Tim Dorsey (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

My kind of story

Brilliant writing. Clever in the style of Seinfeld. I will continue with the entire series.

GOOD BOOK.

NARRATOR DID A GREAT JOB. I LOVE THE HOW DORSEY DESCRIBES PARTS OF FLORIDA, TO A T!

Serge is insanity

Tim Dorsey delivers one crazy drug fueled romp through Florida. this story was insane, whitty, sharp, and morbidly creative. with wit that rivels the late great Douglas Adams Florida Roadkill tells the tale of Serge Storms the human embodiment of insanity it's self. Serge and a bizarre cast of charictors each with thier own story all up intertwined together in a mis-adventure that swindles an insurance company and causes a chain reaction of death and murder. the last man standed claims the prize. the story was humorous but slightly disjointed which sometimes caused my mind to wonder and i would have to rewind because i missed key story points. i did enjoy that the reader sounded like Walter Cronkite so the whole adventure sounded like a news report which sort of added to this crime comedy.

Humorous but disjointed

Filled with funny characters but the book felt disjointed and hard to follow at times. I felt that the back stories of the characters took too long to explain. I rarely skip ahead in books be it audio or reading them but I did on this and felt I didn't miss much. The performance was excellent and that may be what kept me listening.

I.F.N.

Tim Dorsey is so descriptive I love his work. one of the best authors ever.

Start here…

You’ll read all kinds of reviews criticizing the narration of the characters for this series. Start here at book one and work your way forward. I’ve been through the series multiple times, when the voices change later on I initially didn’t like it but going back through it starting at book one I’m like “that isn’t Serge and Coleman”, enjoy it in order, it’s worth it!!!!

Detailed description of Florida

Begins with vivid description of Florida as a State. While introducing characters... it's hard to set down.

crazy good

always crazy and interesting, can't wait to see how Coleman returns. Next book here I come!

Soap box

It starts out well, but gets a little preachey. I am disappointed that the author used this book to express his views on gun ownership. After all his main character is a serial killer!

Poor editing of narration

Disjointed. I like Dorsey but this one a little all over the place. Just too many “local references”. I’m
a local for the Gulf Coast setting and familiar with everything & everywhere mentioned. But, the obvious mispronunciation of places & names after a while was so annoyingly ridiculous. Where was the editor or Dorsey’s approval? Narrator sounded AI produced.