Weird Florida

by Eliot Kleinberg

Book Overview

"Any time you jam descendants of slaves, rednecks, Indians, con artists, carpetbaggers, drug smugglers, fugitives, UFO abductees, strippers, alligators, and political refugees into a flat peninsula... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563524732
• ISBN13: 9781563524738
• Release Date: January 1955
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A BEAUTIFUL THING - NOT!

This certainly sets the record straight on Florida once and for all. Florida the land of swamps, cheap block houses on slabs built exactly like garages, grossly overpriced scam artists of every persuation, and an insane manipulated real estate market where they sadly attempt to pawn this garbage then run (they just set up shop as a corporation, sell stock of which they own a large stake, then when the S hits the fan? dump the stock. Just do a check on Florida developers who have dumped their own stock in the venture after milking it dry.) Well in fact where else in the world but Florida would one find a community of multi-million dollar houses being pawn off where the entrance to the area is right in front of ...get this one..a railroad track, trailer court, and a WATER TREATMENT FACILITY? now come on how stupid are people! LOL only in Florida. Or better yet a multi-million dollar condo complex in front of a neighborhood of houses where people park their motorcycles IN THE HOUSE! LOL It is simply surreal. Yes, like the book exposes the shocking but true. In this hurricane ridden, flood prone, high priced crime filled jungle it is one of the few places on earth where one amazingly will find thrift shops filled with priceless rugs, art, antiques, and decorative arts all technically 'thrown out' out of the solid ignornace of people who know nothing of quality or value, who throw out a relatives crystal, silver, art, and antique furniture brought here from elsewhere when they moved here years ago. And incredibly these are the same people who then run to patheic cheap furniture stores priced 'by the room' where they purchase hideous garbage to fill their garage style houses, this of course is after they refinanced or no interest loaned like suckers to put that Hummer and Mercedes in front of their 900 sq. ft dump they call home. Where is the logic to all of this? Don't even ask because there is NONE. It is simply the most incredible and bizarre place on earth as the book outlines. We know they say a sucker is born every minute? It is incredible what goes on in this place! If you are seeking high culture in Florida? You better buy yogurt. Want to get dressed? As one put it 'getting dressed here means putting on your best set of teeth.' As the book shows the state is filled with the grossed level of horrid low class people and their bizzare ideas brought to reality. Anyone who thinks this place is paradise? is either brain damaged, drugged, or so blind to what quality is they aren't worth quoting. Better buy this book fast or you may be in for a rude awakening. The book provides the launchpad heads-up for future individual investgation on a number of so-called luxury places where entire counties take advantage of the history of a small once exclusive area, Palm Beach is one. A small clean island community of beautiful houses on the east coast a spot where once you get off that barrier island, and it applies to any of Florida, the entire county tries t

truthful

i grew up in florida, and i opened this book up and it was right to a page with a story that I personally know is true. pg. 165- port st. lucie story. brought back really bad memories. if youre from florida, and you heard about a crazy scandal, chances it will be here. oh- check out page 129- used to work with that sicko- another port st. lucie story. yikes.

strange state truley weird

found the book to be very funny. got a great laugh at the welcome to floirda sign :)

Reasons why Florida isn't the paradise it's alleged to be.

This is a great book for anyone who has ever vacationed in Florida. Whenever someone thinks Florida is the haven of the leisure class and playground of the rich, they only need read this tome. This shows just what a mosquito-filled muck hole, sand-flea infested, white-trash flooded, odd-ball inhabited place Florida really is. It made me glad I didn't live there. Really funny. I know why the "Magic Kingdom" is in Orlando, Florida right along with all the other weird, abnormal and off-the-wall kooks in that swampland of a penninsula. Thanks, but I'll take Manhattan.