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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.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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