Carl Hiaasen

By the evidence of the scabrous and unrelentingly hilarious Squeeze Me, the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen’s moment . . . Just dive in and have a wonderful time.

Pink pearls, pythons and a philandering president add up to a rather unusual Palm Beach social season in Carl Hiaasen’s riotously funny new novel, Squeeze Me... [Hiaasen] knows and loves Florida and hates what has been done to it as much as anyone I know of, and those passions shape his razor-sharp satirical fiction.

Squeeze Me is vintage Hiaasen — wry humor, social commentary and satire akin to Jonathan Swift, and all fun.

Novelists, like the rest of us, can’t look away from the Trump administration. Unfortunately, they haven’t found much interesting to say about it. Carl Hiaasen’s thriller Squeeze Me is, blessedly, an exception . . . Hiaasen is clear-eyed: He meets the president on his subterranean level . . . Squeeze Me is funny, but as with Hiaasen’s best work, it’s grounded in genuine outrage over the corruption that increasingly defines American political and cultural life. And it turns out there’s no better place to invoke that outrage than the wealthy swamps of Florida.

Twists and turns with breathtaking speed…Climb aboard, Bubba, strap yourself in. You’re gonna like this ride.

Great fun…I went for Double Whammy hook, line, and sinker.

A day-glo version of reality that is insanely funny—and scary.

Carl Hiaasen’s vivid imagination serves up a seven-course meal in Double Whammy. It’s a spread where every course is thick, rare, red meat…You’ll have a good time.

A stewpot full of the strange, the wacky, the interesting, and the bizarre…zany, diverting, marvelously grotesque.

A savagely funny crime adventure…bristles all over with Swiftian wit…For all its loony-tunes characters and their mondo-bizarro adventure, there’s something about this mordant, comic fantasy that says it’s just too crazy not to be true.

Pointed and humorous; a good gift for the neighbor’s kid’s graduation.

Breezy, enjoyable . . . fast-paced . . . readers will be hoping that Yancy and the other quirky denizens of Hiaasen’s Florida will soon be back for another screwball adventure.

Rejoice, fans of American madness who’ve sought fulfillment in political reportage. South Florida’s master farceur is back to reassure you that fiction is indeed stranger than truth. . . . [Hiaasen’s] plotting is so fine-tuned that preposterous complications that would strain lesser novelists fit right into his antic world. Relax, enjoy, and marvel anew at the power of unbridled fictional invention.

[An] immensely wild ride . . . only this author could dream up . . . This is the ultimate beach read for anyone with a taste for Hiaasen’s skewed view of a Florida slouching toward Armageddon.

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.

[A] rollickingly comic and suspenseful adventure.

The story is full of offbeat humor, buffoonish yet charming supporting characters, and genuinely touching scenes of children enjoying the wildness of nature. He deserves a warm welcome into children’s publishing.

A screwball delight so full of bright, deft, beautifully honed humor…. You’d follow [Hiaasen] anywhere.

It doesn’t do Carl Hiaasen justice to call him Florida’s funniest state product…. Hiaasen is something bigger: a superb national satirist [and] a great American writer.

A whopping cannonball splash of fun…. Hooray for Hiaasen’s world.

Barking mad…. Here Hiaasen is at his best.

Compulsively readable with a cleverly conceived resolution. . . . Fans of
spy stories, action, environmental intrigue, and, well, Hiaasen, will cheer for
this one.

Not many authors are equally successful at writing books for adults and children, but Carl Hiaasen seems to have made an effortless transition … The ingenious plotting makes Scat more engrossing than either of its predecessors.

This well-written and smoothly plotted story, with fully realized characters, will certainly appeal to mystery lovers.

Does anyone remember what we did for fun before novelist Carl Hiaasen began turning out his satirical comedies one after another after another?...Star Island is a concoction worth the time of any reader who wants quality entertainment.

Hiaasen’s best for a young audience since Newbery Honor Hoot features a shy, deep-feeling protagonist who’s also a pragmatist and plenty of nature info and age-appropriate cultural commentary…. Humorous adventure tales just don’t get any more wacked…or fun to read than this.

Mystery, action, humor, and exotic animals and settings, all tied together by a writer with an exceptional grasp of language, makes this a sure hit with any mystery-loving readers.

[A] comedic marvel . . . [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip. . . . Beautifully constructed.

Hiaasen employs a seasoned bullshit detector that is among the most acute in American journalism. . . . If Florida is the poster child for a nation’s fiscal and political disintegration, Hiaasen is the state’s galloping knight (in)errant, slaying the dragons of ineptitude, arrogance and idiocy.