reading (Lucky You)
Jun. 12th, 2011 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI finished "Lucky You" in three days I think. It was a welcome balm after "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". Maybe I'm just too cynical for sweet books. You might be able to find two more different novels, but it would be a challenge.
"Lucky You" certainly isn't an intellectual growth exercise. It's a farce complete with Mary Sue characters and way impossible plot. I should mention, I really liked that there wasn't a young woman throwing herself at an old guy in this one. You can pick out the romatic leads really quickly, as usual, but I like that the secondary romantic couples don't turn out the way you'd expect them to.
Hiaasen does seem to have to have his evil couplet: bad guy, bad dumb guy. In this one they wade right across the void between farce and absurd, lacking the coherence of other Hiaasen villians. The similarity between Cosmo Lavish and the primitive member of the evil couplet in Hiaasen's books is striking. If you read Making Money and this book in succession it really is weird.
21. Carl Hiaasen "Lucky You"
"Lucky You" certainly isn't an intellectual growth exercise. It's a farce complete with Mary Sue characters and way impossible plot. I should mention, I really liked that there wasn't a young woman throwing herself at an old guy in this one. You can pick out the romatic leads really quickly, as usual, but I like that the secondary romantic couples don't turn out the way you'd expect them to.
Hiaasen does seem to have to have his evil couplet: bad guy, bad dumb guy. In this one they wade right across the void between farce and absurd, lacking the coherence of other Hiaasen villians. The similarity between Cosmo Lavish and the primitive member of the evil couplet in Hiaasen's books is striking. If you read Making Money and this book in succession it really is weird.
21. Carl Hiaasen "Lucky You"
