{"id":1184,"date":"2004-07-23T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2018-08-13T10:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:40:23","slug":"1184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/23\/1184\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>Skinny Dip<\/i> by Carl Hiaasen (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clutch your chests and call out to &#8216;Lizabeth, gentle readers, but I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375411089\/qid=1090598328\/sr=8-1\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=208db98a2ebbf651d140c70bf1260075\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> new, in hardcover, and I paid full new bookstore price for it.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve all choked down some nitro and your condition has stabilized, let me tell you why I did.  I read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/01\/784\/\" target=\"_new\">another Hiaasen book<\/a> earlier this year, and I liked what he did, so I bought another.  Worth the price.<\/p>\n<p>Hiaasen is unconstrained by series characters and, quite frankly, the bounds of sensibility when he produces his capers, and this is unexceptional in its exceptionality.  A biologist on the take from a local farming operation fakes pollution numbers fears his wife has caught on and will ruin it all.  So he pitches her from the deck of the ship upon which they&#8217;re celebrating, sort of, their second anniversary.  Unfortunately, his newly ex-wife was a collegiate swimmer, so she survives the plunge and decides to come back from the grave to make his life problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Chock full of entertaining characters and situations, mostly believable with the right suspension of disbelief (except for one or more moments of &#8220;Oh, come on&#8221; back story), and a fine addition to my read list, upon which this book is #44 for the year.<\/p>\n<p>I am so smart and literate.  Don&#8217;t you want to be my friend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clutch your chests and call out to &#8216;Lizabeth, gentle readers, but I bought this book new, in hardcover, and I paid full new bookstore price for it. Now that you&#8217;ve all choked down some nitro and your condition has stabilized, let me tell you why I did. I read another Hiaasen book earlier this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23035,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/23035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}