Chomp
Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo His father is an animal wrangler, so he s grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and in his backyard The critters he can handle His father is the unpredictable one When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival , Wahoo figures he ll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show s boneheaded star, before the shoot is over But the job keeps getting complicated Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and insists on using wild animals for his stunts And Wahoo s acquired a shadow named Tuna a girl who s sporting a shiner courtesy of her old man and needs a place to hide out They ve only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves And then Tuna s dad shows up with a gun.It s anyone s guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival Best Download [ Chomp ] By [ Carl Hiaasen ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr First, please understand, my rating of a book is based on how it affects me, nothing else A book does not have to be great literature to get high marks from me, it just has to catch my interest and involve me, and get me to enjoy the experience in the process This is what makes Chomp a five star read for me.Carl Hiaasen is one of my all time favorite fiction authors Unfortunately, for his loyal readers, he s been keeping a fairly low profile in recent years after a creative explosion in the First, please understand, my rating of a book is based on how it affects me, nothing else A book does not have to be great literature to get high marks from me, it just has to catch my interest and involve me, and get me to enjoy the experience in the process This is what makes Chomp a five star read for me.Carl Hiaasen is one of my all time favorite fiction authors Unfortunately, for his loyal readers, he s been keeping a fairly low profile in recent years after a creative explosion in the 90 s Chomp represents his return to the sweet spot of what made me one of those loyal readers Hiaasen s forte is using fun characters, sarcastic humor, and barely believable story lines to raise the readers consciousness about subjects we should have been paying attention to all along His specific p...My family watches a good amount of survival skills TV, with Survivorman and Naked and Afraid being our favorites So when we realized Chomp s plot integrates a similar survival themed TV show, we were pretty excited Of course the show featured in this book is from Mr Hiaasen s imagination, but in my opinion it strongly resembles one particular survivalist s show that I shall not name It happens to be a show I won t watch because I think it s strategically and non spontaneously scripted and My family watches a good ...I m having trouble working myself up to review this one That may be the definition of a three star book, at least sometimes.I ve been meaning to read something by Carl Hiaasen for awhile now I read this one aloud to my son because my random picks for him lately tended to feature female leads, the ocean, and environmentalist themes to one degree or another Isabel of the Whales and Island of the Aunts I figured I owed the guy a break.Back to Chomp I liked it Much of it takes place in the Flo I m having trouble working myself up to review this one That may be the definition of a three star book, at least sometimes.I ve been meaning to read something by Carl Hiaasen for awhile now I read this one aloud to my son because my random picks for him lately tended to feature female leads, the ocean, and environmentalist themes to one degree or another Isabel of the Whales and Island of the Aunts I figured I owed the guy a break.Back to Chomp I liked it Much of it takes place in the Florida Everglades and the environmental...Fun for a bit there s a chomp joke in there somewhere Hiaasen hits the right notes humor wise in this Steve Irwinesque takeoff of a prima donna phoney Aussie hosting a reality wildlife survival show His name is Derek Badger and he isn t the best thing about this novel by any means Unfortunately, just when you think he s as bad as it gets, ANOTHER caricature um, CHARACTER, I mean I think snatches defeat from the gator jaws of infamy by taking his place.What s to like the Mickey Cray Fun for a bit there s a chomp joke in there somewhere Hiaasen hits the right notes humor wise in this Steve Irwinesque takeoff of a prima donna phoney Aussie hosting a reality wildlife survival show His name is Derek Badger and he isn t the best thing about this novel by any means Unfortunately, just whe...Me ha costado engancharme a la trama y a los personajes Tiene sus puntos divertidos y originales, pero la historia me ha parecido poco cre ble y no he conseguido conectar con ellaAs you d expect from Hiaasen plenty of colourful characters and ridiculously funny situations set in the swamps of the Everglades And, of course, Nature always wins out over stupid people.I read this young adult title with my 11 year old son His rating was...This book is utterly hilarious and I love it so so so much.I loved this book Chomp is about a father Mickey Cray and son Wahoo Cray and their adventure on a reality series called Expedition Survival which is actually a parody of Man vs Wild, I learned some very shocking revelations about these wildlife reality series.So, Mickey was injured shortly before by an iguana falling on his head and is suffering the after effects of a serious concussion and Wahoo take car...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I had no idea this book was supposed to be YA until after I was finished reading it I m still not convinced that it is, even though Wahoo, the primary I guess character, is young He is just soboring The whole book is strangely packed with action and boredom in equal measure, it s hard to explain So much happens, and yet none of it got me excited to turn the page and see what will happen It doesn t help that for the first half of the book it s all about Derek Badger, and then he literal I had no idea this book was supposed to be YA until after I was finished reading it I m still not convinced that it is, even though Wahoo, the primary I guess character, is young He is just soboring The whole book is strangely packed with action and boredom in equal measure, it s hard to explain So much happens, and yet none of it got me excited to turn the page and see what will happen It do...My son came home dying to read this book after the school librarian showcased it at school We soon realized it was above his reading level, so I read the book to my 4th grade son and 2nd grade daughter In short, my son loved it and my daughter, well, not so much One of the things I love about my kids getting older is watching their personalities come into their own Unfortunatley she says with a smile , my son leans toward the silly, slapstick humor filled books And this fit the bill The c My son came home dying to read this book after the school librarian showcased it at school We soon realized it was above his reading level, so I read the book to my 4th grade son and 2nd grade daughter In short, my son loved it and my daughter, well, not so much One of the things I love about my kids getting older is watching their personalities come into their own Unfortunatley she says with a smile , my son leans toward the silly, slapstick humor filled books And this fit the bill The characters were funny, with one liners and silly things they did, like an adult TV star thinking he is going to be a vampire, with plenty of examples and time in several chapters exploring this They both loved the aspect of filming a TV show Although I don t think they understood how cheesy Derek BAdger was, they were intrigued by some details, like explaining the views of the cameras and how tv scenes were shot The book also evoked an intriguing sense of placeespecially in the swamps of the eve...
- English
- 18 May 2018 Carl Hiaasen
- Kindle Edition
- 306 pages
- Carl Hiaasen
- Chomp