Another great story!

The story just reeled you in! who thought a book about fishing could be both rivetting and witty! The storytelling is excellent.

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good read!

lovely book and one of hiaasens best ones. I read it a long time ago and now again. puts me at ease..

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Indignation CAN be funny!

Would you consider the audio edition of Double Whammy to be better than the print version?

Skink at his most, with a supporting cast of misfits, both good and bad, what's not to like? Brilliantly narrated too!

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Like I said in the headline, indignation can be very funny, and it's a help for us tree huggers who maybe feel despondent at the enormity of the task we face if we want to make a difference in the fight for the environment.

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Brilliant funny and entertaining

I love the setting and the characters- I want interested in bass fishing but I learnt something about it. A great story and lots of fun

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Absurd great fun

Where does Double Whammy rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I'm glad to say I've heard a lot of good audiobooks, but double whammy is up there with the best. The narrator brings the characters to life, and the story is completely nuts but you still want to find out what happens. I'll be looking out for more from Carl Hiaasen.

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a new dimension to Hiasson

I've always loved his books and this is one of my favourites, as it features the Governor heavily.

the narrator is excellent and brought something new to my mind's eye. like all of us I had a mental image of skink and whilst it took a little while to match the voice to the character by the end it felt right.

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Great, classic Hiaasen

This is one of his best, and narrated superbly too. You can rely on Hiaasen to make you laugh out loud while he gets his eco messages across, and kills the baddies too.

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My New favourite Author

Watching Bad Monkey on TV and a friend commented that the books were good… this was my first but definitely won’t be the last. Great characters, well paced story, darkly comedic tones - all wrapped within a worthwhile caper of intrigue and indecent behaviour. I know little about fishing but this tidy little tale left no plot line untangled. I’m hooked!

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Floida fun Carle is a good story teller

Friendly fishermen. what a crew, but the good guys have best intension's. Any thing goes in floida.

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A cracking good listen

I've read a few of Carl Hiaasen's other books and enjoyed them, but this was my first Skink - I cannot believe I had never even heard of him, and like some other reviewers, I'm left wondering why on earth almost nobody else seems to have heard of him either. The book is a great romp, dark and serious at its heart, but laugh-out-loud funny and utterly surreal: the Lucas episode especially, and yet I somehow managed to suspend my disbelief and accepted it as if it were not entirely normal but yet somehow possible.

I'm going to make my OH listen to it. He'll thank me. Just damn good, often sensitively-written, and brilliantly narrated. Now for the second in the series!

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