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Chargement... Tricky Business (2002)par Dave Barry
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Funny. ( ) Dumb and Dumber meets the Mafia in a story that fails miserably where humor is concerned. Having laughed out loud through ALL of "Insane City", reading this was drudgery. Underwhelming is the best description I can provide. Here's the recipe: a sleazy business man buys a Miami casino ship that's a front for organized crime; add an equally stupid cover band called Johnny and the Contusions and a crew of miscreants who plan to rip off drug money, its about as predictable as they come. I chuckled a couple of times and had to do everything I could to stop yawning. This is one of Dave's earlier books so its obvious his humor has evolved. Regardless this will be the last book written by him I'll bother with. And no, I don't recommend it...obviously :) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money. In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions, a ship's band with so little talent they are ... well, the ship's band; Arnold and Phil, two refugees from the Beaux Arts Senior Center; Lou Tarant, a wide, bald man who has killed nine people, though none recently; and an assortment of uglies whose job it is to facilitate the ship's true business, which is money laundering or drug-smuggling or...something. What happens to them all in the midst of the fiercest storm in years, the unpredictable ways in which this trip will change their lives and send them ricocheting off each other like a giant game of pinball, is the story of this astonishing, wickedly satisfying, all-too-human novel by "one of the funniest writers alive" (Carl Hiaasen). Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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