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    The Riptide Ultra-Glide: A Novel
    The Riptide Ultra-Glide: A Novel
    The Riptide Ultra-Glide: A Novel
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    The Riptide Ultra-Glide: A Novel

    Written by Tim Dorsey

    Narrated by Oliver Wyman

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    Lovable serial killer Serge Storms is back and coming to the rescue of a Midwestern couple who aren't finding Florida quite as charming as he does in Riptide Ultra-Guide, the sixteenth installment in Tim Dorsey's bestselling series.

    When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide a vacation in Florida is just what they need to put life back on the right track, awful accommodations, a robbery, and a not-so-helpful police department make them rethink their decision to drown their troubles in paradise.

    Luckily, charismatic (and crazy!) tour guide Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman, are up for another action-packed adventure in this outrageous crime thriller that Tim Dorsey fans won't soon forget.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 22, 2013
    ISBN9780062239600
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    Tim Dorsey

    Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of twenty-five other novels: Mermaid Confidential, Tropic of Stupid, Naked Came the Florida Man, No Sunscreen for the Dead, Pope of Palm Beach, Clownfish Blues, Coconut Cowboy, Shark Skin Suite, Tiger Shrimp Tango, The Riptide Ultra-Glide, When Elves Attack, Pineapple Grenade, Electric Barracuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big Bamboo, Torpedo Juice, Cadillac Beach, The Stingray Shuffle, Triggerfish Twist, Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, and Florida Roadkill. He lives in Florida.

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    • 3/5
      Another fun ride through Florida with psychopath and serial killer Serge A. Storm and his stoner sidekick Coleman.
    • 3/5
      My review of Pineapple Grenade, Tim Dorsey's last book was very negative. This time out Mr. Dorsey put his foot back into the water of familiar territory, by adding a couple who are complete fish out of water, similar to the couple who first appeared in His best book Triggerfish Twist. For this book the couple, are sweet wonderful Special Education School teachers who are laid off due to budget cuts from Wisconsin, and decide a vacation to Florida will help them. The authors politics only creep in occasionally this time out, in the form of Wisconsin doing away with collective bargaining of public employees (a good thing since the tax payer should not be held hostage by unions who pay public employees their salary) That being said the problem with this book is that the author is showing more and more that he is tired of writing this series, and it shows. Colman almost plays headliner to Serge rather than the other way around. You don’t really start to get to the story line until about 60 pages in.The story and I use that term loosely is about the Kentucky mafia acquiring Oxycontin pills in Florida and the Mexican Mafia trying to make the Kentucky mafia get their pills through the Mexican mafia. Throw in a couple from Wisconsin who have everything bad that could happen to them, happen, and you have this book. It is a thin read, at just under 300 pages, and Serge's ranting’s and psychotic behavior is getting old and tired. At times it felt like the old saying about give a thousand monkeys typewriters and one of them will produce Shakespeare only in this case it was more like 1 dozen monkey's and you get Riptide Ultra-glide.There are some creative ways for Serge to kill those who deserve it, and some creative monologues by Serge on the state of the human race, but unfortunately it is been there done that. This is not a bad book, it is just sad that the author did not end the series while it was still fresh, and instead try’s to relive past glories.Tim Dorsey please start a new series or even give us a one off book, this series has seen better days.
    • 4/5
      Serge Storms wants to create a reality television series. Set in Florida of course – I’m not sure of the theme. Other than madness, murder and crime that is. He gets mixed up in a South Florida pill-mill war and rescues a Wisconsin couple, the McDougalls, that has been having extraordinarily bad luck since arriving for a vacation.Serge’s constant companion, Coleman, has become a doper celebrity and now offers wisdom and autographs everywhere they go. Serge continues to murder the deserving in ingenious ways.The plot is convoluted and entertaining and the humor is twisted – as always.
    • 5/5
      Fast-paced, great story lines, Serge and Coleman are fantastic!! Like a Seinfeld episode with mayhem!!
    • 1/5
      Unavailable in my country. Not fair I want to read this book!!!!!
    • 4/5
      If you have read any of Tim Dorsey's previous books then you know what to expect. This book is more of the same. I'm not knocking it, not really. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It made me laugh and smile. The story involves Serge and Coleman racing around Florida filming a pilot for a reality show. I think they are also working on their ongoing tour business. There are a couple of sub plots involving drug dealers, quack doctors,despicable lawyers and a happy couple from Wisconsin on a vacation from hell. I always enjoy Tim Dorsey's sense of humor and laugh at of the insane things he makes Serge do to people that deserve it. I also enjoy the books to see what bars, hotels and destinations in Florida that Serge visits. The books are like a crazy trip to Florida and I enjoy taking the trip every January with a new book.
    • 3/5
      The Riptide Ultra-Glide: A Novel (Serge Storms) by Tim DorseyWhat should be on everyone’s lips is not “What’s up with Florida” but rather, what is up with this series. I have always loved this series for its irreverent look at life and death. Looking at life through Serge and Coleman’s eyes has always been such a pleasure. These books have always reminded me of Carl Hiaasen’s books but nuttier - a tad cruder. I have always loved them; but lately they seem to be more of a mish-mash of crime and history more than anything else and with “The Riptide Ultra –Glide” you don’t even get a satisfactory ending. I really tried not read this with a tight butt attitude, but…This book is less about the usual ingenious killings of those that *might* need killing and the usual fish-out-of water vacationers, and more about unnecessary swearing, gratuitous drugs and a level pf vindictiveness that I don’t remember from previous books. We have a drug war going on among other things, a war that is between the so-called Kentucky Mafia or the Hillbilly Mafia and the Mexicans. We have vacationers from Wisconsin, who are so naïve and sweet that you may just want to knock them upside their heads, and we have various stoners following Coleman around wanting his autograph.The vacationers, Pat and Barb, have just been laid off from the school they teach at and they feel they deserve a vacation before they go on to the next phase of their lives and the next job. They make reservations in a part of Florida that they have not researched and haven’t been to since the husband Pat, was six years old, and they did no research on the motel they are staying at. The vacation deteriorates quite quickly. And, it just keeps on going down-hill fast to the point that you really need to suspend your disbelief to a point that you may feel uncomfortable with..What we do not have is very much of a story, which is somewhat normal for Tim’s books. However, I have never seen anything in his repertoire as disjointed and slap-dash as this novel. The book really doesn’t even get really interesting until you hit about 75% mark. Perhaps I have just grown out of my liking of overly wacky novels with characters that just burst from the pages, but I don’t think so.*ARC supplied by publisher*
    • 4/5
      I had just about given up on Tim Dorsey, since his last couple of books seemed to be written by rote. Riptide Ultra-Glide has turned by opinion around with Dorsey seeming to be back on track. This is a tightly written book with lots of comical moments (of course) and an ending that I didn't see coming. I came into this book with an attitude of "oh well, I might as well read it" and came out with an attitude of "when is the next Serge adventure going to be published".