欧宝娱乐

This was better than I thought it would be. It was very funny while still being serious enough to have an interesting story with a message about pollution.

Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry both worked at the Miami Herald, and did a lot of work together. Dave Barry is a very funny guy, but his books tend to get a bit juvenile, and might appeal most to high school or college males with lots of beer drinking, etc. So I was a little worried about this book, but it wasn't like that at all.

The basic story was about a real loser who managed to get a PhD in Biology somehow, even though he can't think himself out of a paper bag. He's very self-centered, to the point of trying to kill people who he thinks might be a threat to him. Fortunately, he's a total failure at that, as he is at everything else. All he really wants to do is play golf and seduce every woman he meets, even the ones he is going to try to kill. He has a job testing for pollution in the everglades, which he hates, and gets paid off to fake the data by a rich polluter who is almost as dumb as he is, and much meaner.

There are some other losers, including one who turns out to slowly be a good guy, more or less. He starts out with a bullet wound that he can't go get treated for, so he takes pain medication, which he gets by sneaking into hospitals and stealing pain killer patches off patients, mostly seniors. Nice guy.