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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780446604659 ISBN: 0446604658 Label: Vision Manufacturer: Vision Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: October 01, 1998 Publisher: Vision Studio: Vision Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Grange, Florida is famous for its miracles: the Weeping Fiberglass Madonna, the Road Stain Jesus--and JoLayne Lucks, recent winner of the state's $28 million lottery! There's only one problem--someone else just never learned to share. So, when JoLayne's ticket is mysteriously stolen, the chase is on through the Sunshine State--wreaking the kind of hilarious mayhem Hiaasen is famous for. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Wacky, EntertainingCharacters with issues, that's what makes the folks that populate this novel intriguing--because they may just be the very people you walk passed in the street, you never know... Screwballish, nutty. Anyway, it's entertaining in a disturbing way. Rating:  - Not My FavoriteAfter reading a few other Hiaasen novels I must rate this as my least favorite. It's readable but I prefer Overboard and Tourist Season. Rating: - Hilarious!Grange, Florida is a small, out-of-the-way community known for its religious miracles, from the weeping Madonna to the stigmata man with holes in his palms that do not heal. Not to mention the road stain in the form of Jesus and the woman who visits every day in her wedding dress. And now, one of their own, JoLayne Lucks, has won one-half of the state's lottery of $28 million. JoLayne works part-time as a veterinarian's assistant and plans to use her lottery winnings to buy and maintain wooded acreage ... Read More Rating: - Another amuaing rompJoLayne Lucks ironically, with a surname like that, has just won a half share ($14 million dollars) in the Florida state lottery. So far, so good. What JoLayne doesn't know is that the other winning ticket is held by two paranoid, white supremacist survivalists who want to steal her ticket and claim the entire $28M prize in order to finance their fledgling survivalist organisation, the White Clarion Aryans. The supremacists track JoLayne down, rough her up, and take off with her winning ticket. Enter ... Read More Rating: - Another good one by Mr. HiaasenFirst, let me say that after reading two of Carl Hiaasen's books (Skinny Dip and Lucky You) I am now a fan and am currently reading "Sick Puppy". His style seems to introduce the "who-dunnit" first and leaves you itching to know why the bad guy did what he did and how he gets what he deserves... and they get it in the most unique and unexpected ways! They tend to get what's coming to them through their own screw-ups, stupidity, fate or maybe all three...but it's always funny and leaves you thinking, "Well, ... Read More 
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