#4

Carl Hiaasen wrote book #4 for the year, Lucky You.  It's about a a woman, named {of all things} is JoLayne Lucks, who had one of two winning lottery tickets worth $28 million dollars.  The yahoo redneck white aryan race freaks who had the other winning ticket decide they need all the money instead of half.  What happens is part mystery, part spy, part romance, part fun, part far-fetched.  Hiaasen writes enjoyable books with zany characters what point to some of the true problems with American society.

Good Quotes:
p3: It ws inevitable that the poacher and the counterfeiter would bond, sharing as they did a blanket contempt for government, taxes, homosexuals, immigrants, minorities, gun laws, assertive women and honest work.
p18: Bodean James Gazzer had spent thirty-one years perfecting the art of assigning blame.  His personal credo--Everything bad that happens is someone else's fault--could, with imagination, be stretched to fit any circumstance.  Bode Stretched it.
p38: "I ain't wearin' no camo."  "Why not, goddammit!" "'Cause it makes you look like a fuckin' compost heap."

p157 ~ good word:

Poetic/Literary ~ deceitful and untrustworthy

p168 ~ good word:

a coil or ring, in particular

p275 ~ good word:

a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds:

fl: On the afternoon of November 25, a woman named JoLayne Lucks drove to the Grab N'Go minimart in Grange, Florida, and purchased spearmint Certs, unwaxed dental floss and one ticket for the stat Lotto. ll: Tom, I'll kill you."  She was laughing as she chased him up the hill, into the tall pines.