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| | WAG: Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy |
 | | ick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen's new novel, is one hell of a fun burlesque tease, which is appropriate, I suppose, since he also wrote the novel from which the much-lampooned film Striptease was adapted (pre-Demi, it was actually a comedy, believe it or not). |
 | | Nonetheless, Sick Puppy's final chapters still have some of the book's best laugh-out-loud passages, and that's a sizeable accomplishment, given the surprisingly violent turn Hiaasen takes toward the end in meting out punishment to his relentlessly greedy bad guys. |
 | | Sick Puppy should rightly win Hiaasen more fans, but I doubt there will be many land developers or lobbyists among them. |
| www.thewag.net /books/hiaasen.htm (746 words) |
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