{"id":14004,"date":"2024-08-13T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14004"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:10:12","slug":"hammerhead-beach-motel-by-tim-dorsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/13\/hammerhead-beach-motel-by-tim-dorsey\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hammerhead Beach Motel” by Tim Dorsey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Copyright 2000 by Tim Dorsey. Published by HarperTorch, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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If you like crazy you will like Tim Dorsey. I enjoy crazy, but only to a point. Apparently that point is somewhat below Dorsey’s level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are about 1,000 characters in this book and about 12 intersecting plot lines – all insane – that come together at the end in the middle of a major hurricane while Key Largo<\/a> <\/em>appropriately plays on the DVD player. Some of the crazy scenes include Toto the Weather Dog getting blown out the door of a hurricane-hunter plane, a grandmother who had gunned down a gangster getting blown to bits by 14 pounds of dynamite in retaliation, some drug runners getting taxidermied and a group of Flying Hemingways getting strewn about southwest Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, the book is set in southwest Florida which gives it a local flavor for me. But that isn’t enough to compensate for the over-the-top craziness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2000 by Tim Dorsey. Published by HarperTorch, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York. If you like crazy you will like Tim Dorsey. I enjoy crazy, but only to a point. Apparently that point is somewhat below Dorsey’s level. There are about 1,000 characters in this book and about 12 intersecting plot lines … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3DS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14005,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions\/14005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}