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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 5093663, member: 2500"] I really enjoyed Bad Monkey, even though Bill Lawrence left out a ton of stuff from the book (like the monkey actually disfigured Egg) and added a bunch of other stuff. Unlike what happened with the Striptease movie, Lawrence kept the spirit of what Hiaasen is all about with the new material and it worked. While not official, it appears Lawrence will do Razor Girl, which was Hiaasen's sequel to Bad Monkey, and keep Vaughn as Yancy along with some other minor characters. Can't wait. Funny thing to me is that I wouldn't consider either of those to be Hiaasen's best novels. His first book, Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Native Tongue, and Squeeze Me are his best, IMHO. He does have another two-book series featuring a retired investigator as the lead, and a series of eight books that feature Skink, the former governor of FL who quit politics and lives in the swamp, but is never the lead character and sometimes is a very minor character. But now that Lawrence has shown he can bring Hiaasen's work to the screen, there's a lot of material to work with. Bad Monkey was a hit for Apple TV, and I'm hoping Lawrence and others will mine that material and produce other series as good as Bad Monkey was. [/QUOTE]