Carl Hiaasen - Lucky You.nfo
General Information
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Title: Lucky You
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Read By: George Wilson
Copyright: 1997
Audiobook Copyright: 1998
Genre: Speech
Publisher: Recorded Books
Series Name: Florida
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: CD
Number: 13
Source: NewsGroup
Condition: Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 13
Total Duration: 15:10:25
Total MP3 Size: 312.64
Parity Archive: No
Ripped With: cdex
Encoded At: CBR 48 kbit/s 22050 Hz Joint Stereo
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles,
but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big:
$28 million to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to
save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one
problem: There's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've
got it just never learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes
swipe JoLayne's ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaperman to
help her track down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage,
a Hooters' waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy......LUCKY YOU.
From Library Journal
JoLayne Lucks has one of two winning lottery tickets each worth a cool
$14 million. She plans to spend it rescuing a local plot of swampland
from a strip mall developer. The holders of the other winning ticket,
however, are Bode Gazzer and his sidekick, Chubb, who want the whole
$28 million. Afire with paramilitary fervor, Bode and Chubb need the
cash to bankroll the start-up of the White Clarion Aryans before NATO
takes over America with a handicapped parking sticker scam. They steal
JoLayne's ticket, but before they can cash it she mounts a hot pursuit
with the help of local journalist Tom Krome. As they chase Bode and
Chubb through the swamps and sleazy dives, dodging bullets and local
religious fanatics, Tom and JoLayne leave a wake of mayhem and hilarity.
This is Hiaasen (Naked Came the Manatee, LJ 1/97) at his wacky best
- a steamy amalgam of raunch, righteousness, and riotous laughs. Highly
recommended.
From Kirkus Reviews
As soon as an informative headnote warns that ``there is no approved
dental use for WD-40,'' you can relax, knowing that you're in for several
blissful hours in the hands of a master farceur whose subject this time
is what passes in South Florida for providence. Even though she's confirmed
the winning numbers on her Lotto ticket, placid veterinary assistant
JoLayne Lucks refuses to give an interview to rolling-stone Register
features writer Tom Krome. Hoping to rescue the turtles of Simmons Wood
from mob-backed development by buying the parcel out of her half of
the $28 million jackpot, she doesn't see any point in telling the world
she's rich. Then, suddenly, she isn't, because the holder of the other
winning ticket, halfwit white supremacist Bodean Gazzer, decides to
double his own payout by heisting her ticket. Bode and his sidekick
Chub have their own public-spirited vision for the prize: arming the
White Rebel Brotherhood (membership 2 and growing) in preparation for
the UN-sponsored invasion of the US via all those unused handicapped-parking
spaces. Along with the obligatory romantic complications, Hiaasen provides
an alarmingly comical parade of spiritual counterparts to the providential
nostrum of the Florida lottery: the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the
Road-Stain Jesus, the miraculous apostolic turtles who bring nirvana
to the features editor sent to retrieve Krome after he takes off with
JoLayne in pursuit of the Lotto thieves. Not even Hiaasen (Stormy Weather,
1995, etc.) can sustain this balancing act forever, and eventually it
collapses like a house of cards. But for an impossibly long time, the
whole wild sideshow seethes and boils with all the grinning vitality
of a ``Have a Nice Day'' poster reimagined by Hieronymous Bosch. Just
when you think Hiaasen can't outdo himself, he finds more lunatics who
just happen to tap into your deepest fears about America. Makes you
wonder. (First printing of 200,000; Book-of-the-Month Club alternate
selection/Quality Paperback Book Club selection)
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