Be Specific About Books Conducive To Native Tongue (Skink #2)

Original Title:	Native Tongue
ISBN:	044669570X (ISBN13: 9780446695701)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Skink #2
Setting:	North Key Largo, Florida(United States)
Literary Awards:	Dilys Award (1992), Deutscher Krimi Preis for 1. Platz International (1994), Last Laugh Dagger (1992)

Native Tongue (Skink #2) Paperback | Pages: 437 pages

Present Containing Books Native Tongue (Skink #2)

Title	:	Native Tongue (Skink #2)
Author	:	Carl Hiaasen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 437 pages
Published	:	May 2005 by Warner Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Humor. Crime

Chronicle As Books Native Tongue (Skink #2)

When the precious blue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way....

Rating Containing Books Native Tongue (Skink #2)

Ratings: 3.95 From 13816 Users | 620 Reviews

Piece Containing Books Native Tongue (Skink #2)

I recommended this book to a large crowd of people in an airport one time because I was laughing so hard, snot was coming out of my nose and one lady finally said "WHAT are you reading?!?!". Approximately half of the crowd standing there wrote down the title and author... hope they had the same snot-laughing-experience I had! :)

This book has more hilarious adventures of "Skink", ex-governor of Florida. Some of the wacky characters are two misfit burglars, an obsessed older woman environmentalist who shoots people plus the owner and various employees of "The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills" amusement park. All of these people interact and produce some laugh out loud lines.



3.75 starsTwo endangered voles (a specific type) in fact the last ones on Earth! are stolen from Animal Kingdom, a theme park/zoo in the Florida Keys. Characters in the book include the two bandits and an old woman (an activist who has a penchant for guns!), who get to know each other; the owner of the zoo, who has a questionable past, and some of his employees: one of the main ones being a PR script writer, who decides he doesnt like all the lies he is asked to write to release to the media.

Native Tongue is my first Carl Hiaasen novel. His writing style and approach reminds me of Joe R. Lansdale, Elmore Leonard, and Harry Crews (Hiaasen makes reference to Harry Crews in this title). I laughed out loud at reading his dark humor more than once. I like the ecological theme, and how "Skink" strives to keep Florida's wild spaces, well, still wild. Lots of bizarre and memorable characters populate the story. I hope return to Mr. Hiaasen's books in the near future. He's won another fan.

Carl Hiaasen at his very best; 4 stars for the writing and story, another 1/3 for this having an even larger portion of humor + 1 star for the blue-tongued voles alone. So that comes to... all the stars! We don't need no stinking literary super high quality! We have blue-tongued rodents and Skink!

You would think a book set at a cut-rate Florida theme park, featuring an environmentalist granny with an itchy trigger finger, an ambitious phone sex worker, an ex-governor living in cranky hermitry in the Everglades occasionally shooting up tourists' rental cars, bunging cops and robbers, oversexed porpoises, and "blue-tongued mango voles" would be a comedy gold mine. And Native Tongue is funny, but while it's funny in bits and pieces, I just didn't think the book as a whole was as funny as