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People kept telling me that I should read Carl Hiaasen. “He’s just your style,” they’d say to me. “You’ll love him.” So I took their word for it, and I started buying Carl Hiassen books. I had three sitting on my bookshelf, waiting to be read, before I finally picked Strip Tease up and started reading it.
Boy, what a surprise!
I wasn’t surprised by Hiaasen himself, actually -- but by the story. It didn’t take me long to figure out that the book was the basis of a movie by the same name (the one with Demi Moore). It’s the same story -- about a stripper who’s just trying to pay the legal fees to get her daughter back from her loser ex-husband and a congressman whose love of strip joints threatens to destroy his chances for re-election.
It’s been a while since I saw the movie, but I remember that, unlike most critics, I didn’t think it was that bad. In fact, if it’s on TV, I’ll even stop flipping channels for a while and watch. The book, however, has so much more than the movie. The plot lines are more intricate and detailed -- and there are more of them. And the book has a subtle, dark wit and sarcasm that’s hard to replicate on the big screen.
Strip Tease is a good casual read. It’s dark, it’s funny, and it won’t require a huge time commitment. Pick up a copy, and you won’t be disappointed.
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