1/9/2019 0 Comments Tropical SwapsFeb 02, 2005 No one's written about Tropical Swaps yet. Be the first to write a forum post about this game! Do you have an issue with your game? We can't help you out if you write about it in your post. Click to play the game Tropical Swaps now. We add new games every day! Wanted: NY apartment in exchange for a great Key West house with swimming pool. Who wouldn’t take a swap like that? Then again, if a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, as Meg and Peter Kaplan soon discover. Heading south for a supposed dream vacation, what they find instead is a panic attack waiting to happen. Coconuts crash through windows, beari Wanted: NY apartment in exchange for a great Key West house with swimming pool. Who wouldn’t take a swap like that? Then again, if a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, as Meg and Peter Kaplan soon discover. Heading south for a supposed dream vacation, what they find instead is a panic attack waiting to happen. Tropical Swaps Y8Coconuts crash through windows, bearing cryptic death threats. People fall from palm trees while spying on the pool. Neighbors whisper of Mob connections, leaving the Kaplans to wonder if they’ll get whacked by mistake in the Southernmost City or if their cozy West Side co-op has been transformed into a convenient Mafia morgue. Enter an FBI agent going rogue, a very good girl determined to be very bad, and the irrepressible Bert the Shirt with his chihuahua, and the cast is complete for this riotous Florida romp. Told with Laurence Shames’ trademark mix of suspense and comedy, mayhem and romance, crackling dialogue and lush description, TROPICAL SWAP is a vacation you can savor without ever leaving home. My original audiobook review and many others can be found at. This book is everything that’s good about campy mobster stories, packed in a nice and compact 6-hour audiobook. The characters in this book are simply delicious; the neurotic and paranoid Peter Kaplan who isn’t at all happy about the situation he’s now found himself in with his wonderful, unfazable wife Meg. They’ve swapped homes for the spring with what might be the world’s most inept gangster, who’s bee My original audiobook review and many others can be found at. This book is everything that’s good about campy mobster stories, packed in a nice and compact 6-hour audiobook. The characters in this book are simply delicious; the neurotic and paranoid Peter Kaplan who isn’t at all happy about the situation he’s now found himself in with his wonderful, unfazable wife Meg. They’ve swapped homes for the spring with what might be the world’s most inept gangster, who’s been sent out on a job by his father-in-law. Understandably, this isn’t quite what the Kaplan’s had in mind for their time away from home and they find themselves drawn in to mob activities and then fixed under police scrutiny. The characters are all caricatures and highly entertaining, from the gruff police detective just looking to be swept away in a grand romance with a bad-girl, and the would-be assassin who has a secret passion for painting. The story is madcap and fast paced, taking us from one funny misadventure to another before you can blink. ‘Romp’ is definitely the right word for this book, it’s comfortingly predictable but very fun to listen to. As the title might suggest, the setting of the book also plays a large point in this story as it’s the character’s strong accents that make it so fun to listen to. Jem Matzam performs all of the accents wonderfully, bringing all the colourful characters to life and making the story a pleasure to listen to – though I did initially find it quite difficult to concentrate fully on his non-character narration. There’s not really a lot I can say about this book that you can’t figure out from the synopsis, other than highly recommend it for a holiday road trip – there’s no swearing in this book that I remember and only mild comic violence and very vague sexual references, so it would be suitable for little ears if you’re going anywhere as a family. Audiobook was provided for review by the narrator. 3.75 Laurence Shames' Florida books are great companions. They have a unique feel for the peculiar and unique qualities of Key West in particular. There are a few recurring characters but most feature different casts and situations. 'Retired' Mafioso Bert the Shirt and his twitchy little dog are back. They get caught up in an odd situation. Two couples trade homes for a mini vacation -- one pair in New York and one in Key West. Jane's fleet command windows 7 patch. Only something is wrong -- the vacationers in Key West end up being th 3.75 Laurence Shames' Florida books are great companions. They have a unique feel for the peculiar and unique qualities of Key West in particular. There are a few recurring characters but most feature different casts and situations. 'Retired' Mafioso Bert the Shirt and his twitchy little dog are back. They get caught up in an odd situation. Two couples trade homes for a mini vacation -- one pair in New York and one in Key West. Only something is wrong -- the vacationers in Key West end up being threatened and harassed because evidently the real homeowner has Mafia connections. And then suddenly the lady of the house shows up two days into their vacation. This adventure features a few mob guys, a rogue FBI agent, a women fingered by the mob for elimination and the two couples who started it all. Lots of fun, great writing, and a little introspection thrown in. Meg and Peter get an offer from a man in Key West who is offering his home — complete with a swimming pool — in exchange for their apartment in New York. It is only when a coconut — complete with cryptic threatening message scrawled thereon — smashes through the window of the Key West house on their first night there, that Meg — and especially Peter — begin to think that there is something not quite right about the set up. Many echoes from Shames' earlier books (Bert the Shirt is Meg and Peter get an offer from a man in Key West who is offering his home — complete with a swimming pool — in exchange for their apartment in New York. It is only when a coconut — complete with cryptic threatening message scrawled thereon — smashes through the window of the Key West house on their first night there, that Meg — and especially Peter — begin to think that there is something not quite right about the set up. Many echoes from Shames' earlier books (Bert the Shirt is back) and the story was entertaining enough, but it did seem a bit of retread. Metadata viewer freeware. TROPIC SWAP was book #58 on our 2017 Read-alouds List. Laurence Shames has been a New York City taxi driver, lounge singer, furniture mover, lifeguard, dishwasher, gym teacher, and shoe salesman. Having failed to distinguish himself in any of those professions, he turned to writing full-time in 1976 and has not done an honest day’s work since. His basic laziness notwithstanding, Shames has published twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles and es Laurence Shames has been a New York City taxi driver, lounge singer, furniture mover, lifeguard, dishwasher, gym teacher, and shoe salesman. Having failed to distinguish himself in any of those professions, he turned to writing full-time in 1976 and has not done an honest day’s work since. His basic laziness notwithstanding, Shames has published twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles and essays. Best known for his critically acclaimed series of eight Key West novels, he has also authored non-fiction and enjoyed considerable though largely secret success as a collaborator and ghostwriter. Shames has penned four New York Times bestsellers. These have appeared on four different lists, under four different names, none of them his own. This might be a record. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, to chain-smoking parents of modest means but flamboyant emotions, Shames did not know Philip Roth, Paul Simon, Queen Latifa, Shaquille O’Neal, or any of the other really cool people who have come from his hometown. He graduated summa cum laude from NYU in 1972 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. As a side note, both his alma mater and honorary society have been extraordinarily adept at tracking his many address changes through the decades, in spite of the fact that he’s never sent them one red cent, and never will. It was on an Italian beach in the summer of 1970 that Shames first heard the sacred call of the writer’s vocation. Lonely and poor, hungry and thirsty, he’d wandered into a seaside trattoria, where he noticed a couple tucking into a big platter of fritto misto. The man was nothing much to look at but the woman was really beautiful. She was perfectly tan and had a very fine-gauge gold chain looped around her bare tummy. The couple was sharing a liter of white wine; condensation beaded the carafe. Eye contact was made; the couple turned out to be Americans.
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