“Cherry Pye underwent three months of expensive coaching before Maury Lykes resigned himself to the fact that she had the weakest singing voice he’d ever heard from anyone not confined to a hospice.”
I know that people read Carl Hiaasen novels on airplanes, but that doesn’t make them (the novels, not the people) any less worthy. If he’s not the best satirist alive, I don’t know who is. Buy the almost unfairly entertaining Star Island here.