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Florida Roadkill: A Novel
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Fun!
  • Dark humor and wacky situations
  • Florida Road Rash
  • Yet another entry in the "Florida Crime Spree" genre
  • Like a gory car accident, you have to keep going
 Florida Roadkill: A Novel
Tim Dorsey
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 006113922X
Release Date: 2006-02-28

Book Description

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money.

On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals -- and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs . . . and the suitcase. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s.

In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida -- where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!

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Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with righ dead men's money.

Then there's Sean and David, who love fishing--and helping turtles cross busy thoroughfares. Unfortunately, they're about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen money.

Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs...and the suitcase. A hitman wants Satan to reign supreme. A slimy, insurance-frauding dentist wants his fingers back. In the meantime, there's murder by gun, Space Shuttle, Barbie doll, and Levi's 501s.

Welcome to Florida!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Fun!.......2007-06-25

Florida Road Kill is a zany, fast-paced trip through Florida with a variety of colorful and somewhat unusual characters. Tim Dorsey shows us a different Florida than we see as tourists on the beach or at a theme park. His Florida is a bit raunchier and an often hilarious place. Florida Road Kill was the bait and now I'm into the series hook, line and sinker.

4 out of 5 stars Dark humor and wacky situations.......2007-06-12

Although not as good as his other book, "The Stingray Suffle", it is an enjoyable read. Granted the characters and the plot are not exactly plausible but if you enjoy dark humour, sarcasm and wacky situations then you should read this.

Tim Dorsey makes an accurate description of Florida and his characters are certainly interesting.

A book to read during your summer vacation that will make you laugh.

1 out of 5 stars Florida Road Rash.......2007-03-03

It's difficult to determine a reason for "Florida Road Kill" beyond the obvious - Carl Hiaasen got rich doing it, so why not Tim Dorsey? Slap together some zany characters and "hilarious", convoluted situations and what do you get? If you have talent you get comic gold, the sort of thing some people refer to as a "romp". If you are Tim Dorsey, you get a mess of seemingly unrelated events strung together over an unendurable number of pages, called by some people "garbage".


Serge Storm is the reason for this book's existence. He's a..psychopath? Sociopath? Serial Killer? ...who studies Florida history, murders for money and drags his skitchy friend Coleman behind him, snuffling drugs of every sort, drinking incessantly and trying to track a big score, half a million in insurance money. They are not funny, but reprehensible. They are not quirky, but downright offensive to the sensibilities of anyone over the age of say, well, zero.

The situations are over-the-top, even in a subgenre known for its far, far reaches into the absurd. The writing is sometimes so minimalist that the only thing missing are the bullet points running down the side of the page. I wholeheartedly do not recommend this book.

3 out of 5 stars Yet another entry in the "Florida Crime Spree" genre.......2006-12-27

Just how many more people can enter a genre that's overpacked with the likes of Hiassen, Barry, Shames, James and so many others? Tom Dorsey creates probably the most "cartoonish" tales of this genre, telling Tarantino-esque tales of wild living, gratuitous violence, and eccentricities with absolutely no depth of characterization whatsoever. This makes for highly entertaining yet eminently forgettable reading. "Florida Road Kill" introduces the character of Serge Storms, a merciless sociopath with a Hannibal Lecter-ish obsession with Florida history and kitsch. He gathers around him a cast of low-life stereotypes with short attention (and life-) spans and involves them in all sorts of gruesome endeavors before they nearly all meet their well-deserved extinctions. Good for a library reading, but certainly not worth an investment of capital.

3 out of 5 stars Like a gory car accident, you have to keep going.......2006-12-25

This is one of the strangest books I've ever read. The plot follows a motley crew if ever there was one, a myriad of characters who wander the Florida landscape chasing after $5 million in laundered drug money. The pursuers include a manic expert in Florida history who's pretty much a psycho, his drugged out partner, their cokewhore girlfriend, a trio of cartel hitmen, a crazed right-wing talk show host, and the lead singer of a very bad rock band. Other participants include a pair of business men looking to go fishing, a fraudulent real estate developer who specializes in fleecing senior citizens, three reject bikers who are by turns good and bad, and then are killed in what is one of the more mysterious scenes in the book, and various others.

This is a truly strange book, and reading it is somewhat like passing a particularly gory car accident. While you're a bit ashamed at yourself for looking, you can't turn away no matter what you do. The violence is bizarre and at times vicious, with everything and everyone being victimized, at times. A dog gets his leg shot off, a bird gets blown through a window by a cannon, one guy gets killed by a pair of jeans, another by a space shuttle trinket, still another person has runflat tire inflations stuff squirted up their nose. There's so much murder and mayhem that at times it's a bit dizzying. Since the author insists on telling the story in a series of flashbacks, and doesn't tell you which segment is a flashback and which isn't, it's almost impossible to tell which is which. Given the bewilderingly large cast, the whole thing is a bit hard to follow.

Also, the author has a definite agenda politically. He apparently *hates* conservatives, and goes out of his way to skewer everything conservative, from gun ownership to outrageous homophobia to corrupt politicians. While I think some of what he goes after worthy targets, his portrayal of the situation is so one-sided as to be ridiculous. Insurance companies don't deny *every* claim that comes through their system, for instance: sometimes it seems that way, but really, they do pay out on some claims. Not all businessmen are corrupt, and not all gun shops are willing to sell guns and silencers to criminals merely because "it's your Constitutional Right." He takes the point more than a bit too far.

Taking all of this into account, the book lacks for nothing when it comes to energy. The author keeps things moving along, and given his penchant for violence and mayhem, it's interesting to watch and see who survives. I would recommend this book, but only to those who aren't squeamish and have a good stomach for roller-coaster rides.
Drowning in corruption; Crooked politicians, sleazy developers, and governors who eat roadkill: welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida.(Q+A)(Interview): An article from: OnEarth
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    		Drowning in corruption; Crooked politicians, sleazy developers, and governors who eat roadkill: welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida.(Q+A)(Interview): An article from: OnEarth
    Gale Reference Team
    Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Digital
    ASIN: B000R38566
    Release Date: 2007-05-21

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    This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1427 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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    Title: Drowning in corruption; Crooked politicians, sleazy developers, and governors who eat roadkill: welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida.(Q+A)(Interview)
    Author: Gale Reference Team
    Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
    Date: September 22, 2006
    Publisher: Thomson Gale
    Volume: 28 Issue: 3 Page: 8(2)

    Article Type: Interview

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    Florida's Roadkill Cookbook
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      		Florida's Roadkill Cookbook
      M. L. Anderson
      Manufacturer: Southern Midwest Features
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 0924704012
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        Jayde C Roof
        Manufacturer: Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Unknown Binding
        ASIN: B0006QJTSC
        3 Titles By Dorsey - Hammerhead Ranch Hotel - Florida Roadkill - The Stingray Shuffle
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          		3 Titles By Dorsey - Hammerhead Ranch Hotel - Florida Roadkill - The Stingray Shuffle
          Tim Dorsey
          Manufacturer: Harper Torch
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Mass Market Paperback
          ASIN: B000Q6OMNY

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          Proceedings of the International Conference on Wildlife Ecology and Transportation : February 10-12, 1998, Fort Myers, Florida (SuDoc TD 2.2:P 94/5)
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            		Proceedings of the International Conference on Wildlife Ecology and Transportation : February 10-12, 1998, Fort Myers, Florida (SuDoc TD 2.2:P 94/5)
            U.S. Dept of Transportation
            Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
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            Binding: Unknown Binding

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            ASIN: B0001116KG

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