Native Tongue

This was a hoot. There's no other way to describe it. Hiassen tells a dark, hilarious tale about idiot criminals, corrupt amusement parks, and environmental extremists, and makes all of the larger-than-life characters seem perfectly reasonable when set against one another.

In some ways the book's horribly dated - fax machines! Carbon paper! The death of John Lennon as a recentish event! But in the end they only add to the book's charm.

I enjoyed this off-beat book about crooked developers, bungling crooks, and amusement parks.