You know what? It’s not that hard to write a novel people will enjoy: a well-paced, believable narrative, interesting and distinctive characters with some sexual tension and humour to ease the thing along and you're pretty much there. You need a good reason to discard any of these if you expect anyone to be interested in your story.
Luckily Hiaasen respects his readers enough to make his work enjoyable for them; that was refreshing. Sure, it doesn’t offer much of an illumination on the human condition, but at least it’s funny, which is more than you can say for Nausea. The characters are just dissimilar enough from stock genre-types to bring it to life, and with the swamp man Skink, Hiaasen hits on a memorable original.
It’s not going to change your life, and I suspect you could pretty much pick up any Hiaasen and have a similar experience; but it’s a lot of fun, and surely the best novel exploring corruption in the world of competitive bass-fishing.
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