 "Jellyfish" Combines Mirth, Mayhem, and Merry Madness 10 of 10 people found this review helpful.
Tim Dorsey's novel, "Nuclear Jellyfish," manages to include diamond couriers, jewel thieves, Lynard Skynyrd, the mutual disdain of rare coin and rare stamp dealers, psychiatry, skin heads, Toby Keith, the old Spanish fort at St. Augustine, Monday Night Football, job fairs, phony hotel coupons, a villain known as Eel, Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton, an RV repair scam, Marineland, Home Depot, a 1971 AMC Javelin, a stripper instructor, Dodgertown, the Allman Brothers, big sugar and John Travolta. Somehow it manages to hold together- hilariously- although it would be stretching to say it makes sense.
Serge Storms, the protagonist, is a lovable, obsessive-complusive, psychopath who devises fiendishly inventive ways of killing people who will not be missed, making weapons out of garden hoses, a vegetable peeler, bicycle inner tubes, model railroad tracks, cardboard boxes and plug-in air fresheners. He has a drug-addled sidekick named Coleman. The plot is launched when Serge sets off on his latest obsession- blogging about Florida for a travel Web site. But Serge turns bitter when the site is unenthusiastic about his gruesome accounts of tourists getting carjacked.
Dorsey's slapstick-noir novels- "Nuclear Jellyfish," and "Atomic Lobster"- are frowned upon by people who feel that robbery, promiscuity, drug addiction, torture and murder are not funny. But if you couldn't stop laughing when Bugs bunny shot Elmer Fudd in the face, this is the writer- and book- you've been looking for and won't be able to stop reading.
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What's not to love about an obsessive-compulsive ADHD psychopath who kills only people who will not be missed and who finds vintage postcards of defunct Florida motels on eBay?
Yes, that loveable collector of Florida trivia, Florida souvenirs, and whacky murder methods is back with a new tour of Florida. And this time he's determined to set the record straight!
Serge is upset that his beloved Sunshine State isn't getting its props from tourists, so he signs on to write for a big internet travel service. But oddly enough, they don't seem interested in Serge's favorite haunts — nor do they want to give their customers tips on how to keep from getting killed while on vacation. So Serge sets up his own outlaw website and begins hyper-blogging his way down the coast with his perpetually hammered sidekick, Coleman.
Unfortunately, Serge's website catches the attention of his nemesis, Agent Mahoney, and the chase is on. Throw in diamonds, strippers, astronauts, RV scams, Home Depot, Lynrd Skynrd, guns, drugs, bloody crime scenes involving such weapons as a vegetable peeler and plug-in air fresheners, a grudge match between rare coin and rare stamp enthusiasts, the Nascar Superstore, historically relevant sex, glow-in-the-dark deformities, library quiet time, Monday Night Football, hotel drink coupons, and John Travolta, and you've got the recipe for the latest madcap adventures of Serge, Coleman, and company in Tim Dorsey's hilarious slapstick-noir saga.
This may not sound like it makes much sense, but then again, it doesn't have to. Once you enter the zany world of Tim Dorsey's characters — who alternate between being just too weird to be real and just weird enough to be real — all disbelief is happily suspended. If twisted humor and satire appeal to you, then "Nuclear Jellyfish" is your kind of novel.
You don't have to have read the first 10 books in the series to enjoy "Nuclear Jellyfish", but if you like "Nuclear Jellyfish", then you've got plenty more treats in store. As an added plus, when you riffle select groups of pages, you get a flip-book "movie" of a jellyfish — presumably nuclear — floating up and down.
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