Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen
Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen
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Sick Puppy

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Narrator: Edward Asner

Abridged: 5 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2008


Synopsis

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements -- such as torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks -- that leave his human targets shaken but re-educated.

After watching Stoat blithely dump a trail of fast-food litter out the window, Twilly decides to teach him a lesson. Thus, Stoat's prized Range Rover becomes home to a horde of hungry dung beetles. Which could have been the end to it had Twilly not discovered that Stoat is one of Florida's cockiest and most powerful political fixers, whose latest project is the "malling" of a pristine Gulf Coast island. Now the real Hiaasen-variety fun begins . . .

Dognapping eco-terrorists, bogus big-time hunters, a Republicans-only hooker, an infamous ex-governor who's gone back to nature, thousands of singing toads and a Labrador retriever greater than the sum of his Labrador parts -- these are only some of the denizens of Carl Hiaasen's outrageously funny new novel.

Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea, Sick Puppy gleefully lives up to its title and gives us Hiaasen at his riotous and muckraking best.

About The Author

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of ten previous novels, including the best-selling Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and two best-selling children’s books, Hoot and Flush. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on October 20, 2022

Independently wealthy eco-terrorist Twilly Spree as a huge issue with personal polluters and litterers and is as likely to tailgate a random litterer on a highway as he is to try and take on a corporate polluter; and it's his determined pursuit of such a litterer that he finds himself the sole perso......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 11, 2021

3.5 stars Carl Hiaasen's books are always hilarious and this one is no exception. ***** Despoilers of Florida's beauty better beware of Twilly Spree, a (slightly nuts) twenty-something, self-styled environmentalist. Twilly has already blown up his uncle's bank for loaning money to an unethical rock-min......more

Goodreads review by Brian on March 30, 2018

"Who could be so inexcusably disrespectful of God's creation?" As someone who HATES litter in all forms, I really enjoyed the fact that the entire premise of "Sick Puppy" starts when the protagonist of the text, a guy named Twilly Spree witnesses a fella littering and gives chase to discuss with the......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on June 01, 2024

All the Hiaasen books I read were prior to Goodreads so as I added books back in ‘08, I just rated them and moved on. This is one of my Skink faves— and all I can say, because the delightfully funny scenes should not be spoiled for anyone— is that the hubby and I still reference the title of this bo......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 10, 2014

Carl Hiaasen is a literary comic genius, a Samuel Clemens for our day, as evident in his hilarious book "Sick Puppy", but to say that his books are simply entertaining is to miss the point. He's writing primarily about Florida, a state which no one should have to actually live in, due to the number......more


Quotes

"Carl Hiaasen once again produces a devilishly funny caper. In Sick Puppy, he shows himself to be a comic writer at the peak of his powers."—Publishers Weekly