Thursday, 2 July 2020

Tim Dorsey - Naked Came The Florida Man


Rating: 5/5

Review:
Another great Serge instalment

This is another extremely enjoyable outing for Serge Storms. He is, needless to say, as obsessive, hyperactive and psychopathic as ever and he and Coleman still form a great comic partnership.

This time we have a story with three converging strands which is probably too complicated to explain. It’s exciting, though, and takes Serge on a new tour around Lake Okeechobee with his usual obsessive delight in all aspects of Florida’s history, culture, flora, fauna and way of life – which Tim Dorsey manages to make as fascinating as ever. Serge also, of course, visits punishments on malefactors which are often Dante-esque in their appropriateness and irony.

It’s crazy, funny, touching in places and absolutely outrageous in others. There are an awful lot of laws against what Serge does. We really ought to disapprove but of course we cheer him on, so there probably ought to be a law against Tim Dorsey, too – but I’m very glad there isn’t. This is an immensely enjoyable read and warmly recommended.

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