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Carl Hiaasen - Nature Girl (Unabridged!)Category: audio Size: 0 Kb Rating: 0 Source: http://rapidfind.org/upload/showthread.php?t=75527 Cache: Hi humour/mystery/reattachment surgery fans. Here is the unabridged version of his latest novel. Bitrate 128 kbps. Length 10:44:47. 590 MB. Narrator: William Roberts.  HIAASEN HAS NO PEERS What's not to like about a book by Carl Hiaasen? His prose is tough yet tender, his satire bites then provokes smiles, he's totally original, his offbeat characters are over the top, and, thanks to him, the State of Florida is revealed in all its steamy, seamy splendor. He won me with "Skinny Dip" and I haven't looked back since. With "Nature Girl" we meet Boyd Shreave who is employed by Relentless, Inc. where he makes his living as a telemarketer. His mistress, Eugenie Fonda "who claimed a murky connection to the famous acting family" is in the cubicle next to him, a script is in front of him, and he has an assumed name for calling purposes - Boyd Eisenhower. He'll rue the day that he ever dialed Honey Santana's number. Honey is a woman on a mission fueled by a rabid desire to rid the world of many adversities that have visited her, one of them being dinnertime sales calls. Her 12-year-old son, Fry, alternates between believing her to be tetched or the most wonderful Mom in the world. Her brother, Richard, is well aware that his sister "sometimes reacted to ordinary situations in unique ways." Nonetheless, he locates Boyd for her. Her plan? To sell him something he can't afford. Sure enough, Boyd takes the bait and soon Honey is escorting the telemarketer and his reluctant mistress on a kayak tour through the wilds of Ten Thousand Islands. She just intends to teach them a lesson or three. What she hadn't counted on is Piejack, her boss at the fish market, following her. Piejack is the kind of guy who thinks sexual harassment in the workplace is acceptable, and the object of his attention is Honey. Now, read carefully (this is Hiaasen) - Piejack is being followed by Honey's ex, Perry, and Fry. Dismal Key is a landing place for this parade, and it's there they find Sammy Tigertail, a half-white, half-Seminole former alligator wrestler who tried his hand at doing airboat tours. But, when his first customer died on board, he told his uncle "he wasn't spiritually equipped to deal with tourists." Precisely what he is equipped for is subject for conjecture. Hiaasen's cast of crazy characters garner laughs aplenty. His meandering plot is a playful perplexity, and every page is a reminder that this author has no peers. Long may he scribe! Gail Cooke Q & A with Carl Hiaasen: Q: Where did the idea for NATURE GIRL come from? I'd always fantasized about tracking down one of these telemarketing creeps and turning the tables -- phoning his house every night at dinner, the way they hassle everybody else. In the novel, my heroine takes it a whole step farther. She actually tricks the guy into signing up for a bogus "ecotour" in Florida, and then proceeds to teach him some manners. Or tries. Q: Have you ever met anyone like Honey Santana? I think there are lots of hard-working, single moms out there who are fed up with all the crap they have to deal with. Everybody has a snapping point, and Honey's threshold is just a bit lower than most people's. I have to say she's one of my favorite characters -- she simply can't abide incivility, and of course South Florida is a hothouse for that. Q: Why did you set this novel in the Ten Thousand Islands? It's one of the few remaining places that haven't been wrecked by development; a truly raw wilderness. I spend a fair amount of time fishing in that area, and it's just breathtakingly vast and remote. Luckily, it's also a mangrove jungle where the mosquitoes are so thick that you literally inhale them. This discourages all but the hardiest (or dumbest) of tourists. Q: Honey's teenaged son plays an important part in this book. It's almost like he stepped out of the pages of HOOT or FLUSH. Writing those novels for young readers has made me more comfortable developing young characters. Kids can be incredibly sharp and funny, and they can also be trouble. I wanted Fry's relationship with Honey and his father to ring true, but I also wanted him to be a fully formed bioality, because he has some heavy responsibilities. I mean, neither of his parents is exactly normal. Q: Is there really a Dismal Key? Indeed there is, and it's pretty damn dismal, unless you're a land crab. I went there with a friend of mine, Capt. Steve Huff, and we walked the whole island. Or tried to. Hundreds of years ago the Calusa Indians lived there, and the central feature of the place is an oyster midden that they built as part of a fish-trapping operation. They were amazing engineers, as well as artisans. Today Dismal Key is overgrown, and lousy with spiders and cactus plants -- only hardcore hikers would dare step off the boat. It seemed like a perfect place for Honey to take Boyd Shreave, the obnoxious telemarketer, and his mistress. Q: Sammy Tigertail, the fugitive halfbreed Seminole, is a new character who is related to one of your old ones. Why did you connect the generations in this novel? Tommy Tigertail was the young Seminole bingo millionaire who joined Skip Wiley's gang of misfits in TOURIST SEASON. It's been 20 years since that book was published, so I thought it would be nice to peek in on him again. Sammy is Tommy's earnest but confused nephew. In the begining of NATURE GIRL, a tourist croaks on Sammy's airboat, so he frantically calls his uncle for advice. Tommy tells him to ditch the body, and that sets off the chain of events that eventually leads Sammy to Dismal Key, and to his encounters with Honey Santana, Boyd Shreave and other unusual white people. Nothing that happens there couldn't really happen in Florida. Trust me. http://rapidshare.com/files/128232189/CnHg.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128232532/CnHg.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128232901/CnHg.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128233343/CnHg.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128233642/CnHg.part5.rar And for the iPod users, also in mp4 format: http://rapidshare.com/files/128234057/CnH2.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128234455/CnH2.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128234819/CnH2.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128235156/CnH2.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/128235427/CnH2.part5.rar That's it for his novels. They're all on rapidfind now. His latest book is The Downhill Lie, it's not a novel but an account of his taking up golfing after an absence of 32 years. None of his other books are available as audiobooks, apart from Team Rodent (How Disney devours the world). It's an expos about the less positive aspects of the corporation. It's available at Audible, but with the relatively short running time, I have to decide which multi-hour epic I'll have to displace for that. Call me a Cheap Charlie, I want a bang for my buck! Enjoy Nature Girl! Walking around with the antics of Honey Santana in my ears, I've many times burst out laughing. People stare, but I really have had funny voices in my head these last couple of days. 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