Rating:  Summary: If you like Carl Hiaasen... Review: I can never get enough of Carl Hiaasen. Twenty years ago, it was Donald Westlake (Dancing Aztecs, for instance), and so I'm constantly on the lookout for writers capable of creating that elusive hybrid of humor and thriller. Ben Elton falls into this category, although sometimes his books tend to run on a bit. Danny King fills a particular niche. So, all that being said, I cannot believe it's taken me this long to discover Bill Fitzhugh. Although the reader comes away from this book with far more knowledge about entomology that they'd bargained for, the story is fast, the characters believable, and the humor sharp. Can't wait to read more.
Rating:  Summary: Cracked me up Review: This is a very funny book, in my opinion the best of Fitzhugh's work that I have read so far. The Organ Grinders is also worth reading although I did not have quite as much fun with it as I did with Pest Control. Not great literature, but a lot of fun to read. The musical allusions are clever and enhance this enjoyable work.
Rating:  Summary: Thoroughly Entertaining!!! Review: This is a great book with many similarities (intentional?) to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. It is a story of how one man, who is down on his luck strikes out on his own to begin his own revolutionary new extermination business, but somehow gets caught up with a group of a different kind of exterminator. With so many twists and turns it would be hard to say much without ruining it for others, but if you like a fast-paced fun and easy to read book, then here it is!
Rating:  Summary: A really great book Review: Pest Control is a well written, fun adventure of Bob Dillon. Bob is an exterminator who is looking for work, after quitting his job to follow his dream of an all natural pest control. Bob applies to an ad in the paper for an exterminator and this is when the story shifts. The ad was for a professional killer - not a bug hunter. The characters of this story draw you in and create a world that you feel apart of. Even the #1 killer has a hold on you. This story is crazy, out-there, and just enough of reality to keep you believing. A must read!
Rating:  Summary: Another patchwork caper. Tiresome. Review: Loved it. Laughed myself silly. A fun, twisted plot with awsome charecters. A must read!
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