{"id":33230,"date":"2024-11-07T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33230"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:25:01","slug":"book-report-razor-girl-by-carl-hiaasen-2016-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/07\/book-report-razor-girl-by-carl-hiaasen-2016-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Razor Girl<\/i> by Carl Hiaasen (2016, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/razorgirl.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">Like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/06\/book-report-bad-monkey-by-carl-hiaasen-2013\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Bad Monkey<\/a><\/em>, I got this book down in Clever <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/22\/good-book-hunting-saturday-june-22-2024-the-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-clever-branch\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in June<\/a>, and I read them back to back, which is just as well as they feature the same characters.  Well, a couple of them.<\/p>\n<p>In this one, the agent of a cable television star who stars in a knock off of <em>Duck Dynasty<\/em> is in the keys to perform at a comedy club.  But he&#8217;s an accordian player from Milwaukee (well, Whitefish Bay) only playing a redneck on television, and when his agent is accidentally kidnapped when a woman rear-ends his car whilst shaving her bikini area (we discover where the title comes from very early), the television star causes a near riot with, erm, jokes about gays and disfavored colloquialisms for black people in a club featuring many black gay men.  So he, the television star, goes into hiding, and the agent is eventually helped out by the Razor Girl, but a big fan of the television star who wants to be more bigoted than his redneck hero kills a swarthy fellow on the tourist tram and ends up kidnapping his hero to become his friend.  Meanwhile, there are some subplots about mobsters and recycled sand scams.  Andrew Yancy&#8217;s girlfriend the coroner-turned-ER doctor flies to Europe to leave him behind.  Yancy investigates the situation while trying to keep an attorney who is addicted to the hazardous aphrodisiac deodorant that he&#8217;s running television ads for class action lawsuits from building on the lot next to his house.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a crash of various threads, characters, and <em>zany situations<\/em> where the mystery is solved in the middle of the book and the rest of it is resolution amongst the whacky characters.<\/p>\n<p>Amusing; not a waste of time, but not high literature, and it has not overtaken in my heart the things I&#8217;ve read of his long ago from long ago.<\/p>\n<p>But I know what you&#8217;re wondering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Trump?<\/b>  Yes, of course, but only a mention that someone has Trumpish lips.  This book might have been written before he ran for president or during.  Not when he somehow won.<\/li>\n<li><b>The <em>baddest<\/em> word?<\/b>  I thought that Hiaasen had given it up because he uses <em>the N-word<\/em> early in the book, but the redneck antagonist does, in fact, invoke the whole badness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He has a later book, but it does not appear to be a Yancy title.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, <em>Bad Monkey<\/em> was turned into a television series just <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bad_Monkey_(TV_series)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">this fall<\/a> and stars Vince Vaughn as Yancy.  So it might be worth a watch when it comes out on DVD.  Which is likely never, as most streaming does not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Bad Monkey, I got this book down in Clever in June, and I read them back to back, which is just as well as they feature the same characters. Well, a couple of them. In this one, the agent of a cable television star who stars in a knock off of Duck Dynasty is [&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-33230","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\/33230","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=33230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33231,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33230\/revisions\/33231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}