Reading Carl Hiaasen's Fever Beach on the basis of @pluralistic's review here https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/21/florida-duh/. Holy shit. I'm only about a third of the way in, but the way he writes this dumb-as-shit Florida white nationalist is :chefs_kiss:
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@jonnn @pluralistic that book was amazing. I just finished it yesterday. Someone said he'd been training his whole life to write that and I can't argue.
@jonnn @pluralistic If you don't know who Mastodon and Mockingbird are, you need to read another of his hilarious epics', "Squeeze Me"
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Carl Hiaasen: one of my all-time fave authors!
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It’s easily the most Florida Florida book in his entire collection.
Carl Hiaasen is a National Treasure and this sounds like it'll make it even MORE clear.
"The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life."
-Carl Hiassen
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