Strip Tease Mass Market Paperback – July 1, 1994

I saw the movie years ago and finally read the book. Carl writes a funny story that Hollywood just couldn't reproduce.Erin Grant works at the Eager Beaver, a nude dancing club to pay for her divorce from Darrell Grant, a real low life who steals wheelchairs and is a CI for the police. Her coworkers have their own schemes of getting rich, from placing critters in dairy products to being swept away by the next star who walks through the doors. Then there is David Dilbeck and his posse. Erb and Moldowski try very hard to keep the sex-starved David from breaking any laws while ensuring the almighty sugar tax stays in place.Carl has a unique way of removing the bad, and sometimes the good, guys from the story. Sometimes half the fun is reading how Carl knocks off his characters. It's a really fun book.

Who could resist the heroine of this novel — a stripper who loves to dance and almost forgets that she’s naked while doing it? Erin Grant used to be an FBI secretary, but makes more money stripping, and needs the money to pay her lawyer in the custody fight for her 4-year-old daughter. Erin’s ex is one of the despicable characters in the story — a junkie with violent tendencies who steals wheelchairs for a living.The plot is a feast of corrupt politics, legal blackmail, and well-intentioned fraud. At center stage of the dirty politics are a lustful congressman and the creepy “fixer” who keeps his image bright and clean.Representing order and law are a Cuban detective who smokes smelly cigars and sniffs out murders that were never meant to surface — and a gentleman bouncer who respects the strippers he protects.Carl Hiaasen’s sardonic, oddball humor emerges on every page. He portrays good and evil with equal relish. Every character in the story is a masterpiece of literary flair and fun. Hiaasen is clearly amusing himself, and the reader is entertained along with him.Strip Tease is one of Hiaasen’s best books.

This story got off to a bit if a slow start for me. I stuck with it because I enjoyed the writing. Boy, am I glad I did.I won’t give away details here, but the story slowly builds up steam to about the halfway point, then starts to take off.I normally can tell where a story is going. This one surprised me at more than one step. The ending was totally unexpected, but made sense in retrospect. All the way through, I could not tell who would live, and who would die. This extended to every character, including our hero (heroes?).The denouement is a little trite, but oddly satisfying.The subplots are as much fun as the plot, and almost more interesting.I definitely rate this five stars despite the few weaknesses, heartily recommend it to you, and plan to look for more by this author as soon as I submit this review.

I love strong female leads and Erin delivered over and over and over again.However, what is with Hiaasen's obsession with his villains having one arm hurt or broken?Double Whammy - it was a dead dog's head attached to an arm.Strip Tease - Erin's husband was given a compound fracture to one arm.And I read a synopsis of another book and someone found a severed arm?Anyway, I'm going to probably read all his books because they are so much fun.

I'm reading the Hiaasen books in order, starting with "Tourist Season," and this is the first that left me a bit underwhelmed. Like the earlier novels, this one is smart and well written, and has its pleasures. But in the first four, Hiaasen created vibrant parallel universes that conveyed a sense of Florida familiarity only to revel in extraordinary wildness. The worlds of bass fishing or cosmetic surgery, peopled with extreme eccentrics, filled with bodies being deconstructed like weird sentences, were exhilarating to encounter. "Strip Tease" is solid but has less of that jaw-dropping otherness. I think the problem is the setting. In a sense, Hiaasen (and Al Garcia) are too respectful of the "dancers," who are all purified of any vices whatsoever. Erin, the main character, is one version of a sexist male fantasy: the good, chaste, beautiful woman who refuses to compromise her ethics and strips only for the most moral reason: to get her daughter back. Even Moldy and the congressman are less outrageous than the oddball villains in earlier novels. Finally, putting Erin's daughter in the middle of things backfires, at least for me: there's nothing entertaining about the custody fight, and it's as if Hiaasen is pinned down by these situations rather than liberated. That said, it still has lively moments and a satisfying ending. I'm looking forward to reading "Stormy Weather"!

I had read it before. I have been dating a stripper and so I really indentified with the books subject matter. Carl Haasen writes of Florida and this is no exception. I gave my other copy to my striipper friend, and so this was a replacement. The plot turns on a couple and their daughter. However The female Erin wants her daughter back and her ex-husband is keeping her. The judge who ruled that Erin could not have her daughter is a regular at the strip club. There are numerous interesting subplots Back stage at the Eager Beaver, the strip club. This involves the various strippers who work with Erin. There is tension between the manager of this strip club and another strip club. A congressman is heavily involved with the striip club. He is in electoral trouble and loves strippers. To protect him, at least 3 murcers are committted. I really enjoyed reading it. It is well worth reading.

Sweet to learn more about Florida’s sugar cane mess, especially this year (2018 and beyond), because we have had the worst red tide In years and some are saying maybe it was worse because of the sugar fields... I never saw the movie starring Demi Moore, so it didn’t sway me in my reading the book. This book was recommended to me by a friend who has read all of Carl Hiaasen’s novels...

The Book arrived in excellent condition - good as new. Great price & very speedy delivery. What more can you ask for ?!!Another fantastic Carl Hiaasen novel, as per usual. I have read loads of them already - I'm a HUGE Fan !! (-:

Great fun. Highly imaginative. An enormous cast of characters, many of them quite zany, become entangled in a series of adventures and misadventures that follows an unfortunate incident in a striptease dancing club in Florida.Review by the author of ALIWAL.

Brilliant. Just get on and read it.

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Book arrived way b4 due date, excellent condition,& a really good read.Carl Hiaasen is addictive love the story & the humour.