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

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

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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....

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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)

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It's trashy but smart. It's trashy smart. Smart trash. Like, Playboy with a PhD in the swamps of Florida. The story is fun, moves like lightning and has an environmental conscience. It's the story of a journalist who has ended up working in the publicity department at a second-rate amusement park and gets caught in the crossfire of his corrupt bosses and the environmentalists trying to save the land. Also, his girlfriend is a phone sex worker, so we get regular doses of her trade whenever he

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! :)

No actual feedback because I read this when I was 12 (and just found it in my moms books). However, I remember really enjoying it.

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.

A shot at Disney and not a shot at Disney, but really a shot at Disney.World: The world building is fantastic, this time Hiaasen takes on the huge amusement parts and the crappy things they do and the facade they put on for customers. But its not just this, once again Hiaasen loves playing with the Florida environment and we get deeper into the development of these parts and their other projects. The characters here are quirky and very Hiaasen and the pieces for the world are wonderfully over

If you haven't read anything by Carl Hiaasen, come see what all the fuss is about. I'm a huge devotee, and "Native Tongue" is part of the reason. The story takes place at an animal theme park in Florida. As in all Hiaasen books, characters include thugs, ecoterrorists and all-round good guys. Hiaasen is a master of crafting a seemingly lighthearted tale with a strong message underneath. Read a Hiaasen book once a year--it's good for what ails you. And you might even be able to stop taking

A pair of blue-tongued mango voles, perhaps the last on earth, are the sad victims of an indifferent heist by two inept burglars, Bud Schwartz and Danny Pogue. The two thieves did not know the small creatures were voles; they were under the belief they were rats, and while escaping from the theme park they had burglarized they had playfully tossed the animals into the open windows of the rented cars of tourists on the highway. Since they had grabbed the box without opening it, they did not know