A Good Reason for a Holiday - Like Hiaasen, Like T.C.Boyle...

[ohnonotagain]

[it should be "A Good Read..."]

Hello everybody!

Tomorrow I'm going on a week-long holiday and was hoping to take a really good read with me, to sit/lie in the sun for hours and forget about insect bites...

I've been enjoying Carl Hiaasens books very much, unfortunately i read just about all of them...

But something like that:

Critical yet entertaining, acid sort of humor, but not crude.
Not too emotional/romantic, but not all male action, either.
criticising society, but still positive, encouraging, (open) happy end.

I like a good plot. i don't like to be deceived or sold cheap by the author.
I like a good crime story, but i don't like when the solution is lurking behind the corner halfway through the book, and you just keep on reading, thinking: come on, get it over with!

if you read and enjoyed hiaasen, chances are you know what i mean.

T.C.Boyles Talk Talk is another of these perfect deep content/entertainment value combinations.

and as you can see from my username, all this can also be sci-fi and/or fantasy, but the actual genre is secondary.

I would be so glad to get some suggestions!
I will borrow the book from our extremely well-equiped library; still, 2013 books are probably booked out.
I like to read in english.

Thanks!

 

[Hedwig]

Have you ever tried John Irving? My favourite is "A Prayer for Owen Meany".

 

[ohnonotagain]

thank you hedwig.
i read irving many years ago, and more than one. i enjoyed it then.
maybe i should try again.
someone else suggested elmore leonhard.

 

[Hedwig]

Irving's still a prolific writer, so there should be some new ones to discover, too.

Can't say anything about Leonard, I've never tried his books so far.

 

[753C]

If you like Hiaasen, try Tim Dorsey. Laugh out loud Florida crime fiction. Try Florida Roadkill, It's the first one in the series.