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Originally Posted by JerryLBell
Pretty much any book by Carl Hiaasen is set all or mostly in Florida and also happens to be a great read. On a non-fiction side, Dave Barry's Florida: Best. State. Ever. is all set in Florida and one chapter in The Villages. Both authors, along with several other Florida authors, collaborated on Naked Came The Manatee, where each author wrote a single chapter. Wickedly fun reading.
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Originally Posted by George Page
“Carl Hiaasen is Wickedly fun reading”
You’ve got that right!
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Originally Posted by Girlcopper
Hiaasen’s books are all fantastic especially if youre familiar with the area of Fl hes writing about.
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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Thriller series’ by Steven Becker, Wayne Stinnett, Tom Turner and Randy Wayne White. Of course there are the much better known and award-winning authors, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Carl Hiaasen. There are literally hundreds of books set in Florida.
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Originally Posted by GaryKoca
I go along with anything by Carl Hiassen as well as Best State Ever by Dave Barry. Hysterical! If you want something serious and shameful, try Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, a very depressing book about Central Florida in the late 1940s.
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Originally Posted by geltner@verizon.net
I agree 100%. He has done much to inform the public of the damage done by the developers and the corruption in Florida government. Lots of fun to read.
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Greetings to all you Carl Hiaasen fans — and have I got news for you! (drumroll, please)
Carl Hiaasen’s new book
Squeeze Me is coming out on Tuesday, 8/25.
I met Carl at a book signing a few years ago. I asked him when he is going to write a book about The Villages. (I know there is one chapter in the book he wrote about golf but there sure is a lot more material in TV.)
Thank you to queasy for starting this thread. I am going to add
A Land Remembered to my Audible listening, but I ordered
Squeeze Me in hardback so I can share it with others after I read it.
Boomer