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  • Skink is as true to life as everyone else in those books.

    Discourse.net: Hiaasen's Craziest Character is Real 2009

  • _ Lizards are not abundant, but I found at Choongtam a highly curious one, _Plestiodon Sikkimensis, _ Gray; a kind of Skink, whose only allies are two North American congeners; and a species of

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Clinton "Skink" Tyree who, in Hiaasen's earlier novels, proves so honest and incorruptible that his time as governor drives him crazy and sends him fleeing naked into the mangroves.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Clinton "Skink" Tyree who, in Hiaasen's earlier novels, proves so honest and incorruptible that his time as governor drives him crazy and sends him fleeing naked into the mangroves.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The point of life as comprehended is to avoid, in so far as is possible and practicable, being part of scheme; to be a 'Skink' as delineated by Carl Hiaasen as 'anti-hero' in the rejection gained through experience and compassion.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • He's got a partner, Beth Derringer, who is his best friend, and a private investigator named Phil Skink, who is just as ethically challenged as

    William Lashner on Past Due: An interrogation 2010

  • Skink: Nuffin … jus finished mah bloobery shlurpy … Thee?

    Up close and personal.. | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Skink - Lizards are extremely beneficial predators of insect pests in the garden.

    David Mizejewski: Garden for Wildlife Month Ends This Weekend David Mizejewski 2011

  • I always wondered who could have been the model for “Skink,” my least favorite but perhaps most distinctive character in Carl Hiaasen's supposedly satirical but actually all-too-realistic novels about South Florida.

    Discourse.net: Hiaasen's Craziest Character is Real 2009

  • I didn't like Skink because, unlike the other Hiaasen characters, he seemed too over-the-top to be real.

    Discourse.net: Hiaasen's Craziest Character is Real 2009

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