Atomic Lobster: A Novel (Serge a. Storms) | Tim Dorsey

Atomic Lobster: A Novel (Serge a. Storms) | Tim Dorsey | Simply Hilarious!

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	Atomic Lobster: A Novel (Serge a. Storms) Tim Dorsey William Morrow, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

storm force...

once again Tim Dorsey lets loose the disfunctional dynamic duo of Serge and Coleman into a maelstrom of a plot...laugh aloud fun and the standard killing fare... what more could you ask for... well, more of it PLEASE.

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Embarking on a new adventure off the coast of the Sunshine State, psychopath Serge A. Storms and his drug-addled sidekick find themselves surrounded by atypical retirees and drug dealers while working to outmaneuver federal agents and a fugitive murderer. BT.
I've read all the Tim Dorsey novels and I have to say this ranks as his best. More laughs than a comedy club. Serge and Coleman are one of a kind. The series brings in some new characters as well (The G-unit, a bunch of crazy older ladies) and returns with some previous ones.
The only thing I didn't like about this book is it ended to soon.
I have to say that Dorsey is one of the most entertaining authors I've read. I'm never disappointed in his novels. Put a new Hiaseen novel next to one of his and I'll go Dorsey all the way. Of course once I'm finished with Dorsey, I'll go right after the Hiaseen.
I'd suggest starting with the first in the series and working your way to this one. It will be much funnier knowing the characters.

Highly recommended!

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usual over the top satire

The man slapped six foot stripper Rachel so Serge A. Storms decides to give him a first hand lesson at the Serge charm school. He and Coleman hold the guy by his ankles off an overpass just to scare him. However, an angry Rachel arrives, elbows Serge in the chest and bites Coleman. They drop the man who vanishes. Serge and Coleman agree it is time to hit the road especially since the latter hopes to create the biggest bong ever.

Others also are touring Florida. The quickest to the draw of the mean McGraws, killer Tex is out of prison with plans to murder those who sent him up river. The G-Unit (dubbed the E-Team by the media) nonagenarian investors seek sex on a cruise; Serge learns not to be in there way when they drive as they purposely pretend confusion while playing pinball with pedestrians. Finally the government seems to be hiding some mysterious murders. The convergence of all these divergent people turns out to be Jim and Martha Davenport, who just wants some excitement in their lives.

This is the usual over the top satire that atomizes just about everyone even a lobster. Serge is at his best starting with his woops while Coleman meeting up with pal Lenny plan on a Guinness Book size bong. However, between Amazonian Rachel, the government, bad Tim McGraw and the "Granny" brigade, Serge and Coleman understand the biggest threat to their Florida road show is these dangerous ninety years olds. Tim Dorsey provides his typical insane zaniness that leaves no one standing except ninety-one years old Edith Grabowski who had sex twice without oxygen and is ready to take on Tim, Rachel, Serge and Coleman in a no holds barred Florida death match.

Harriet Klausner

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Sail Away

The lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storm, appears for the 10th time, along with his larger-than-life sidekick, Coleman, in this typically [for this author] comical and absurd tale. Along the way we are treated to amusing sidelights, ending in a cruise from Tampa involving smuggling.

The novel includes the customary cast of unusual characters, including a serial killer, a timid husband and his mixed-up wife, a boozed-up and doped-up bottle blond strip-teaser and four elderly matrons who provide comic relief. The author's comments on cruise ships are not only funny but accurate and telling.

If you've never read one of the books in this series, start here. You will not be disappointed, as we promised in the recent review of Hurricane Punch [the book preceding this one and just released in paperback].

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Dead-on and hilarious

Tim Dorsey's work has always been informed by his canny, nasty and very funny insight into the foibles of human nature in general and the residents of South Florida in particular. Serge A. Storms, his lovingly deranged, serial-killing anti-hero, is a sympathetic character --- up to a certain, shifting, indefinable point --- because of his victims. Serge picks nefarious drug dealers, purse snatchers who prey on senior citizens, bullies and the decent folk among us. Coleman, Serge's sidekick, is a drug-addled burnout, along to provide assistance as a homicidal go-fer, not to mention occasional comic relief.

In ATOMIC LOBSTER, Dorsey brings back some old friends as well as mortal enemies into the mythos, though familiarity with what has gone before is not a prerequisite for enjoyment. Chief among them is Jim Davenport, a human pushover doll whose encounter with Serge in TRIGGERFISH TWIST left Davenport hoping that he'd never see him again. A series of coincidences --- South Florida is just one big small town, after all --- brings Serge and Davenport closer and closer together until they wind up living on the same street, and fortuitously so.

Tex McGraw, the nominal head of Florida's meanest outlaw clan, has just been released from jail and is hell-bent on revenge against Davenport, who accidentally killed McGraw's brother. Meanwhile, Davenport's daughter is engaged to be married to an insufferable womanizer with no visible means of support other than a rapidly depleting trust fund.

The Diaz Brothers, most famously characterized in HAMMERHEAD RANCH MOTEL, are seeking a more lucrative source of income than is possible as hotel proprietors. When one of them moonlights with a moving company charged with relocating the Davenports to their new home, you can see the collisions coming from a long way off. They come quickly and furiously in ATOMIC LOBSTER, beginning with a drop off of the Sunshine Bridge and ending aboard a cruise ship that is no love boat, not with Serge A. Storms aboard. Oh, and speaking of love, Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin, is back as well. Does he fare any better here than he has in previous works? Should you even ask?

Dorsey skewers everyone here --- his descriptions of the people boarding a cruise ship are worth the price of admission alone --- and the manner in which he captures the unreasonable sense of entitlement that seems to have possessed folks these days is first-rate, simultaneously dead-on and hilarious. If ATOMIC LOBSTER doesn't increase Dorsey's readership one-hundredfold while sending both new fans and old friends scurrying for his backlist, then nothing will.

--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub

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