Clownfish Blues audiobook

Tim Dorsey is a master at stringing together apparently unrelated oddities of life in Florida into something resembling a plot for the latest adventures of Florida-obsessed killer Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned traveling companion Coleman.In this book, he manages to tie together worm grunting in Sopchoppy, the Psychic Capital of the World in Cassadaga, jiggly-cam reality-show antics that aren't real at all, attempts to manipulate the state lottery, the proliferation of professional sign spinners, furries, illegal immigration and -- last but not least -- the way the old "Route 66" TV show somehow contrived to visit Florida for a few episodes, despite Florida not being located anywhere near that famous road.I won't even attempt to explain what happens, except to say it's all pretty funny, a lot of rude and mean people get what they deserve, and Coleman meets a woman who finds him attractive -- but only because he's wearing a panda costume.

Some mental images can't be unseen. In this case, two yiffing sign spinners in full uniform. Of course this bizarre happening is not unusual in a Serge Storms novel, as he manages to uncover the trendy and work it into a narrative as if it might even be normal.You remember Serge? He's the fellow who kills those who would harm Florida or Floridians, usually in creative fashion to match the "crime" but always leaving them a potential out that rarely works. I used to refer to Serge as a serial killer but it turns out he takes umbrage at that as I found out in this latest of Dorsey's madcap series. According to Serge, "Serial killers are sick, obsessive losers who will never stop until they die or get arrested. Sequential killers, on the other hand, just happen to be the only person around when action is required." "A sequential killer never intends to kill again - it's just that the cosmic hand of responsibility sometimes keeps picking the same person." So, sorry, Serge, I'll refer to you as sequential from now on.It has become a bit of an annual ritual. Run down to the book store in January to meet up with Tim Dorsey and grab an autographed copy or two of his new release. This one centers on dishonest landlords, weird doings with the state lottery, and Serge's attempts, along with his drug addled sidekick Coleman to duplicate some of the last episodes of "Route 66" that were actually filmed in Florida. As always, one picks up some delicious Florida trivia and geography and exposure to some of the most ingenious plotting devices and bizarre characters in fiction.Dorsey has to be one of the hardest working authors around. His website shows 57 signings in the two months since the publication. Keep it up Tim, enjoy you and the series!

Clownfish Bluesby Tim DorseyTim Dorsey provides another comedic gumshoe type gem out of his home state of Florida. As the summer heat of Miami slows the private investigation business down for P.I. Mahoney, two defrauders plan to change the dull days of sultriness into a hi-jinxed road trip. Coleman and Serge have chosen a new life style, both plan to team up and move to a new town every week and find employment, a Route 66 brand of lifestyle where there is havoc to play out each and every occasion. Dorsey uses his past career experience of newspaper reporting and editor skills to help churn out classic whimsical detective novels such as his latest, Clownfish Blues.

One of Tim's better ones. I love that he is bringing back many characters from previous novels and weaving them into the fun and insanity of Serge and Coleman.

Clownfish Blues is another hugely enjoyable episode in the Serge Storms saga. The plot this time (as though it matters) involves lottery scams and faked TV “news” in which, needless to say, Serge and Coleman brilliantly and hilariously dispose of the scumbags and various Bad Guys while, of course, manically pursuing Florida’s diverse history. For example, Serge insists on visiting Sopchoppy: “This place is so remote and tiny, yet has all kinds of bonus feaures as both the self-proclaimed ‘music capital of North Florida’ and ‘earthworm harvesting capital’ of the whole state. That is a bold range of culture.”With Tim Dorsey’s enthusiastic research and compelling, madcap storytelling and a welcome return of a couple of characters from Shark Skin Suite, this is another very funny and involving read. Very warmly recommended.

If I were an objective reader, I might point out how this is among the weaker books in the now 20-book series. Also, if I were an objective reader, I might point out how, even by Serge's lovable psychopathic standards (where you subconsciously approve of whom he executes), it was hard to accept the way (view spoiler)[ he kills someone for the offenses of splashing his cell phone and not apologizing. That's hardly child abuser/wife beating stuff. (hide spoiler)]. I'm sure I'd point out how each book is essentially a variation of every other book in the series.However, I'm not an objective reader. Tim Dorsey and Serge Storms are my guilty pleasures every January/February. I'm Floridian and I love Dorsey's mix of trivia and unapologetic zaniness. It would take a hell of a lot worse than this to get anything less than 4 stars.

Let me say that Tim Dorsey never disappoints, and this book is no exception. To be honest though he uses all his books as a platform to showcase his perceived ills and issues with society. Sort of a Social Justice warrior. That being said I often agree with him on many of these things, but be forewarned if this sort of thing bothers you, this may not be the book for you. This is the 20th book in the Serge A Storms series and despite the former comments, its is easily one of the best. we meet some new characters and some old characters. If you are a fan of the series, this is a must read, if you have never read them, you can read this one with out reading the others, but I recommend you start at the beginning. I loved this one and I gave it 5 stars and 5 Lennys

From the publisher: If you’re loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up on your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own “episodes” of your favorite classic television show, Route 66! With Coleman riding shotgun, Serge is rolling down the highway of his dreams in a vintage silver Corvette. It doesn’t matter that the actual Route 66 doesn’t pass through Florida, for Serge discovers that a dozen episodes near the show’s end were filmed (really!) in his beloved home state. So for Serge and the always toked and stoked Coleman, the Sunshine State is all the road you need to get your kicks. But their adventure traveling the byways of Florida’s underbelly is about to take a detour. Someone is trying to tilt the odds in the state lottery amid a long line of huge jackpots, resulting in more chaos than any hurricane season. Soon every shady character wants in - - crooked bodega owners, drug cartels laundering money, and venture capitalists trying to win one for the mathletes. They’re also gambling with their lives, because when Serge and Coleman get hip to this timely (and very lucrative) trip, there’s no telling whose number is up next. Throw in Brook Campanella, Serge’s old flame, as well as the perpetually star-crossed Reevis Tome, and it’s a sure bet that the ever lucky Serge will hit it big.This is the 20th book in the series, and I have to state right up front that it kept a perpetual smile on my face from page 1. I really needed a break from a spate of books filled with violence, blood and gore, and news cycles that would be difficult to top for their outlandish details of the current political climate. But the author has managed to produce just that! We are told that “there are parts of greater Miami where even crime doesn’t pay.” The novel jumps around a lot, kinda like Serge and Coleman (his life-long friend, generally “stoned and tipsy”), with Serge driving a “genuine 1964 Corvette Stingray, just like Martin Milner drove in the third season of Route 66. For Serge and Coleman, it’s all about Route 66.”The book is filled with recurring scenes such as, e.g., worm-grunting searches [no, I never heard of it before either], and “when the hucksters and hoopla dissipated, a tastefully quaint community accidentally emerged from the fog of failed avarice;” we meet a cable news cameraman named Gunter Klieglyte, and we find “a bicyclist with dangling iguanas, looking in the rearview mirror as officers interviewed Korean saloon workers, an Australian film crew, Marilyn Monroe and JFK, while a man in a camo hat ran through a dozen bodies chasing a small alligator . . . twenty-four-hour pedestrians moving with less verve and direction than zombies . . . sidewalks full of businesspeople on lunch and aimless people on parole… a dead guy hanging from a billboard and another with his head wrapped in scratch-offs.”I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is, as you might have guessed, recommended.

Serge and Coleman are reliving Serge’s version of the old tv show, Route 66. Each episode is funnier and more wacky than the last. Anyone who is not familiar with Tim Dorsey’s protagonists needs to be aware that Serge is certifiably crazy and Coleman is permanently drunk and/or stoned. Serge is a serial killer who only kills those most readers would want to eliminate like the guy who drives through a puddle and splashes you and soaks your phone. He has been doing this for years. Coleman is his compatriot and accomplice. The plots deal with lottery tickets and winning one of those huge rollover payoffs. The characters are hysterical and just that far out of the realm of reality. Fun reading throughout.

A few books back I nearly gave up on this series. The stories were becoming to scattered, outlandish, political, lazy, and boring.The last book Coconut Cowboys was an attempt to get back on track. I am happy to say that trend has continued and even been improved on.There is no real way to describe what this or almost any Tim Dorsey book start Serge Storms is about, except to say think of all the outlandish, crazy shit that happens in Florida and add in a lovable, funny, sociopath (Serge) along with an even more lovable alcoholic drug addict (Colman), a large number of innocent bystanders and you have a classic Tim Dorsey book.The only downside is the book doesn't last long enough.

The usual antic mayhem from one of my favorite crime writers. Tim Dorsey lives in the outer, loopier boroughs of Hiaasenville -- both excellent writes, and laugh out loud funny. Dorsey here delivers another fun ride with Serge and Coleman, the psychopath / stoner odd couple, as they travel along lesser known byways of Florida, with Serge dispensing oddball travelogue and his own brand of rough justice, and Coleman inhaling and imbibing just about anything intoxicating. No need to get all literary in this neck of the woods -- just put the top down and your mind on cruise control, and sit back and enjoy the ride. Sure, every novel in the series is roughly the same setup, but each is different, shining its light on its own weird facet of this truly weird state. I read 'em all!

Coleman has a good time

This is a standard Serge Storm adventure.

Our living, breathing "Florida Man Headline," Serge Storms returns for Tim Dorsey's twentieth vicarious attack on wrongs found in Florida Life...While Serge and the eternally baked Coleman attempt to recreate Tod Stiles and Lincoln Case's adventures in Florida from the TV series "Route 66"...I guess they had some map issues and this was before GPS...In "Clownfish Blues," Dorsey targets Civil Forfeiture scams by local police and the state's lottery...Absolutely hilarious!!!

Man, I just love the stories of Serge A. Storms. Here is a man of purpose. Just mix in some Florida weird and hilarious situations for a whirlwind tale that is NEVER boring. Talli-ho Serge!