Gator A-Go-Go

This is the best of the series so far with all of the regulars showing up. Johnny Vegas, the G-Unit, City and Country, Donovan. The laughs are non-stop when Serge and Coleman do Spring Break!

This is a comfort book-one of those that you can just sink into and let go of life. Perfect when you need to hide from the world. Serge and Coleman are insane, possibly offensive and truly live in their own demented world.

A few years back I read two books in Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms series. The novels read like a lesser Carl Hiassen romp. I finished both, but didn't really find myself wanting more, so when I received an advance copy of Gator A-Go-Go, I figured I'd get another 2nd tier wacky Florida novel that I'd have trouble finishing. Boy was I wrong. Serge and his party animal buddy, Coleman, decide to tour Florida during Spring Break, doing a backward historical tour of spring break in the state. Meanwhile, a businessman in witness protection in Boston has his face unwittingly plastered all over the news, blowing his cover. The man's son decides at the same time to go on spring break with his buddies to Florida, resulting in a convergence of Serge, the boy, and the evil organized crime family that wants the boy and his father dead. Some reviewers have described the book as Quentin Tarantino in novel form. That's a fair assessment of this book, with its horrific but funny violence, the constant shifts in location and time (sometimes within the same passage), its eccentric characters, and the snappy pop culture dialogue of its main characters. Dorsey creates a winning narrative that is funny, profane, suspensful, gruesome, and satisfying. Highly recommended.

After a Miami crime gang ruins his Spring Break by targeting a snitch's son, Serge A. Storms and his equally drug-addled and alcohol besotted best friend, Coleman, aim to track down the gang members and take them out while doing a springbreak travelogue. I've read all of Tim Dorsey's novels and loved every one of them. More laugh-out-loud hilarious romps than any other author I've come across. inane humor and some graphic violence, wrapped up in some weird and original plots that come together perfectly in the end, make this one of the most entertaining talents I look forward to reading. Awesome. Keep it up.

Pick up a book by Tim Dorsey and you immediately start to share it with those around you. You probably don't share the plot, characters, or dialog, but by laughing out loud, you are allowing others to share in the craziness of the book. Gator A-Go-Go, the latest novel from the mind of Tim Dorsey, takes the reader on a historical tour of Spring Break in Florida with the most unusual tour guide, serial killer Serge A. Storm and his faithful, inebriated sidekick, Coleman. Every year, students flock to Florida for that rite of passage known as Spring Break. Among the hundreds of thousands of students, Serge arrives in Panama City to film his documentary on Spring Break. Also in Panama City is a group of killers looking for one particular student and the FBI, attempting to protect the student. Through a series of wonderful coincidences, the student, and his friends, fall in with Serge and Coleman. Traveling with Serge, the student is as safe as he can be. Although just being with Serge tries your sanity and patience. Coleman, usually outside of his element in most of Serge's adventures, finds his place in life. What is better for a hard core party animal like Coleman than Spring Break? He is totally in love with all things Spring Break and reaches mythical status with the college students as he shares his secrets of hard core partying. The backdrop of Spring Break also provides ample opportunity for Serge's particular, and peculiar, brand of justice. Gator A-Go-Go is a departure from Dorsey's previous Serge novels. For one, he brings Coleman to the forefront in much of the novel. Usually used for (more) comic relief, Coleman is presented much more in this novel, providing the reader with a much better character than in past novels. While he is still very much drunk or stoned (or both), seeing him interact with the students provided the reader with another side to him. He is not just a drunk or stoner, he is actually articulate and extremely knowledgeable. Although his area of expertise is not a popular one in the general population, when he is surrounded by the right crowd, he really comes alive. The other area where this novel differs from previous Dorsey novels is in the relationship Serge has with his younger charges. They do not know much of him, and he does scare them with what we see as "normal" Serge, he is fiercely protective of the people in his entourage. It comes as a surprise to the reader to see this aspect of Serge's character. Usually, Dorsey presents Serge as disengaged from most aspects of his environment. In this novel, Serge is much more focused on the safety of the students, and, when he realizes the reason for the attention of the FBI and the killers, he makes it his mission to resolve the problem. While this novel stays within Dorsey's successful formula, regular readers should find it a much more enjoyable novel due to his characterization of Coleman and Serge. Of all of his novels, Gator A-Go-Go is probably his best for long

When my husband first started reading Tim Dorsey's novels I decided to try them too, but never made it past the first two. They were just too strange, too violent, and I didn't like protagonist/psychopath/murderer/historian and ultimate Florida-phile Serge A. Storm. So why I decided to get his last two for review is beyond me, but I am so glad I did (and now I have gone back and am reading the earlier ones). In Gator A-Go-Go Serge and his friend and party animal Coleman decide to do Spring Break and record a documentary. Add in the organized crime matriarch Madre and her favorite killer "son" Guillermo, the FBI, and a college student whose Dad is under the witness protection program and you get a ruckus. Serge is known for his elaborate killing machines, and the creations he makes here involving garage door openers and suspension bridges with guitar string are magical. Note that he only kills people who are really annoying, such as drivers who tailgate on the highway or who not only do not pull over to let an ambulance pass but honk at the cars who do (a sign of the downfall of civilization for Serge). My favorite characters from the earlier books are all here - the beautiful City & Country and Coleman (who was killed off earlier and then magically resurrected) - and Coleman is in his best party form. Want to know how to best bake pot brownies, open a beer bottle 100 ways with no opener, keep beer cold on the beach with no cooler, or how to properly infuse oranges with vodka? Coleman has the answers. Full of Florida fun facts, trivia, and funny intelligent crazy characters, Gator A-Go-Go is one of the most fun books I have read in months (probably since I reviewed the last Dorsey novel, Nuclear Jellyfish). I highly recommend this book!