Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns - Tapa blanda

"Although some say the satire practically writes itself in this state, Hiaasen raises it to a higher level. One caveat, though: Unless you have an intravenous drip of blood pressure meds, you might want to read just a few of these columns at a time."
--Tampa Bay Times

"Hiaasen doesn't really need to keep his day job as a columnist for the Miami Herald, but fortunately for the residents of Florida and for his vast readership, he has. . . . The state of Florida does not come off too well in Hiaasen's columns, but one welcome positive of the Sunshine State is obvious--Carl Hiaasen."
--The Free-Lance Star (Fredericksburg, VA)

"Hiaasen makes this parade of idiocy and avarice palatable with a kind of gallows humor. The more appalling the situation, the greater the potential for hilarity. . . . He is not so much stridently liberal as steadfastly sensible, his wit girded by palpable anger."
--The Post and Courier (Charleston)

"Hiaasen employs a seasoned bullshit detector that is among the most acute in American journalism. . . . If Florida is the poster child for a nation's fiscal and political disintegration, Hiaasen is the state's galloping knight (in)errant, slaying the dragons of ineptitude, arrogance and idiocy."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Entertaining. . . . Hilarious and unnerving. . . for Hiaasen's ability to awaken outrage and for his eye for oddity."
--Booklist

Praise for Carl Hiaasen's previous column collections, Paradise Screwed and Kick Ass

"Shows you that Hiaasen's seemingly implausible fictional premises aren't really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida."
--Playboy

"Reminiscent of the snarky, opinionated newspaper articles of the great Mark Twain, Hiaasen's columns are finely crafted little gems."
--Booklist

"Lively and well-reported . . . Illuminated by all the wit and keen descriptive powers of his fiction."
--Salon

Collecting his best columns from the past 12 years, the New York Times bestselling author covers such topics as off-shore drilling, hurricanes, political corruption, the criminal justice system and animal welfare as well as such national stories as the Trayvon Martin case. Original.