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Skinny Dip

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Skinny Dip	label	Skinny Dip
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Skinny Dip	comment	Skinny Dip is a satirical thriller novel by Carl Hiaasen, first published in 2004.Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, Joey, by pushing her overboard during an ocean cruise to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Joey survives and, after drifting for hours, is fished out of the sea by Mick Stranahan, a retired investigator now living a reclusive existence on a remote island. With Stranahan's help, Joey sets out to get back at Chaz and to discover why he tried to kill her — taking full advantage of the fact that Chaz now believes her to be dead.
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Skinny Dip / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
Skinny Dip / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: Chaz writes a fake suicide note, intending to cover his tracks as he flees the country, but karma catches up with him first.
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Skinny Dip / int_166258c3	type	Character Overlap
Skinny Dip / int_166258c3	comment	Character Overlap: Mick Stranahan was a lead character in Hiaasen's earlier novel Skin Tight; several other characters from that novel also make appearances. There is also an appearance by Hiaasen's frequently-recurring character "Skink".
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Skinny Dip / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Skinny Dip / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: While channel-surfing in Chaz's home, Tool finds an episode of Oprah, featuring three movie actresses who are all bemoaning what a hassle it is to be famous, with paparazzi and Loony Fans following them everywhere, even to the grocery store. Tool quickly decides that he does not feel the least bit sorry for any of them, since they are wealthy enough to afford bodyguards and walls around their mansions, and unconsciously compares their "plight" to that of the elderly cancer patient he met at a local hospice:
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Skinny Dip / int_29c480a3	type	Good News, Bad News
Skinny Dip / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News: Chaz, staring at the forged will, leaving his wife's entire fortune to him, silently calls it "the ultimate good-news-bad-news joke":
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Skinny Dip / int_29d16652	type	Removed from the Picture
Skinny Dip / int_29d16652	comment	Removed from the Picture: Joey secretly returns to Chaz's house and, using cuticle scissors, cuts herself out of a wedding picture, which she places under his pillow. Stranahan immediately recognizes this as a typical feminine ploy; apparently, it happened to him with his third wife.
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Skinny Dip / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
Skinny Dip / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Partially deconstructed in Skinny Dip. Chaz Perrone is a Sex God—even after his incompetent attempt to murder her, Joey still admits this—but she's well aware that he only cared about her enjoyment as a way of feeding his own ego, and is pleasantly surprised by her new physical relationship with the protagonist, Mick Stranahan:
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Skinny Dip / int_314afdb	type	In-Universe Factoid Failure
Skinny Dip / int_314afdb	comment	In-Universe Factoid Failure: Chaz tries to kill Joey by pushing her off a ship, figuring the Gulf Stream will wash her body out to sea. But (as the book's own jacket synopsis notes) Chaz "is the only marine scientist on Earth who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream flows." Rather than out to sea, Joey washes up on the Florida coast and naturally wants payback. It takes a random comment from a girl he's trying to pick up in a bar for Chaz to realize his mistake.
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Skinny Dip / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Skinny Dip / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: A corrupt and absolutely crooked man though he may be, even Red is disgusted by the (fake) video footage of Chaz tossing Joey from the Sun Duchess in cold blood. Later, when Chaz blames the crumbling of their operation on his presumed-dead wife instead of his own idiocy in a desperate plea for his life, Red outright calls him an evil little bastard. Ditto for Tool, who generally Would Not Hit a Girl (unless she started it first).
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Skinny Dip / int_31b5d604	type	Forging the Will
Skinny Dip / int_31b5d604	comment	Forging the Will: Mick Stranahan forges a will in the name of presumed-dead Joey, leaving $13 million to her husband, as a ploy to find out just how greedy he really is. Joey would never have lavished such money on her scumbag of a husband as long as she was alive.
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Skinny Dip / int_35ab4cec	type	You Watch Too Much X
Skinny Dip / int_35ab4cec	comment	You Watch Too Much X: When Chaz tries to shoot his girlfriend Ricca, he aims the pistol with both hands, "like he'd seen a thousand times on television." Since he's never fired a gun before, his first shot misses completely, while his second only wounds his victim in the thigh, non-fatally.
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Skinny Dip / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Skinny Dip / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Joey doesn't want to kill her husband (even after he tried to murder her); all she wants is to know (1) why he did it, and (2) why he would marry a woman he never really loved.
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Skinny Dip / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Skinny Dip / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: The novel is all about Joey Perrone getting revenge on her husband Chaz, who pushed her into the Atlantic Ocean on a cruise. She takes full advantage of being presumed dead.
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Skinny Dip / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Skinny Dip / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: on a helicopter ride out to the Everglades to view Chaz's empty Hummer, this exchange takes place:
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Skinny Dip / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Skinny Dip / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: Averted. Chaz, trapped in the Everglades, is terrified of being eaten by an alligator, then remembers from undergraduate biology that many species of snakes and lizards have two penises, and starts to dread that alligators are similarly endowed (they aren't).
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Skinny Dip / int_4f6bd2da	type	Nature Is Not Nice
Skinny Dip / int_4f6bd2da	comment	Nature Is Not Nice: Chaz, a marine biologist by profession, actually loathes the outdoors, especially the Everglades he is required to work in; Chaz was pre-med in college, but he was such a lazy student that he failed to qualify, and instead graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in biology; studying for a master's degree in Marine Biology, he expected to be sipping cocktails on the deck of a sailboat while playing with dolphins, but instead was assigned to collect and examine sea lice, which "colonized his upper torso with an itchy, pustular rash", leading him to inform his faculty supervisor "that the only sensible purpose for studying sea lice was to isolate a toxin that would wipe them off the face of the earth"; Playing the role of a biologist for the state water management district requires Chaz to collect water samples from the Everglades; before wading into the swamp, he thrashes the water with a golf club and yells at the top of his lungs to scare away any and all wildlife that might be lurking nearby; Fleeing from both Joey and his former employer, Red Hammernut, Chaz is forced to enter the swamp naked and spend the night hiding there, tormented by fatigue, dehydration, and nightmares of being eaten and possibly raped by alligators; When he is picked up by the Recurring Character Skink, who knows all about his villainous behavior, Chaz asks what the stranger plans to do to him, and Skink replies with a quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Nature, red in tooth and claw."
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Skinny Dip / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
Skinny Dip / int_56635771	comment	When he is picked up by the Recurring Character Skink, who knows all about his villainous behavior, Chaz asks what the stranger plans to do to him, and Skink replies with a quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Nature, red in tooth and claw."
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Skinny Dip / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Skinny Dip / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Chaz is driven insane in many small ways by Joey, whom he thought he had killed.
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Skinny Dip / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Skinny Dip / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Joey confronts her husband for trying to murder her, she also berates him for throwing away all her possessions after he thought she was gone: "all my clothes, my pictures and my books! Even my orchid!"
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Skinny Dip / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Skinny Dip / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Joey's reaction to her husband calling her a "nosy bitch": "I told him if he ever spoke to me that way again, I'd reach down his throat and pull out his testicles one at a time."
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Skinny Dip / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Skinny Dip / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The second-to-last chapter has Chaz hopelessly slogging through the Everglades, ruing how his former friends all turned against him, especially the ones he had tried and failed to kill. He escapes from his tormentors, only to meet for the first time the last person he'll ever see.
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Skinny Dip / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Skinny Dip / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Having tried and failed to murder three people (including his own wife), having his co-conspirator turn on him and order him killed to keep him silent, and forced to flee for his life into the hostile territory of the Everglades, Chaz still doesn't understand why the world won't stop picking on him:
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Skinny Dip / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Skinny Dip / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Chaz escapes a murder attempt by Red by fleeing into the Everglades - the place that he fears and loathes more than any other on Earth - without food, water, or clothes, then is "rescued" by the man who happened to have saved one of his would-be victims from drowning and knows all about his sordid history.
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Skinny Dip / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Skinny Dip / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Having tried, without success, to murder his wife, his mistress, and Red's Dragon "Tool", Chaz still doesn't think it's fair that they're all collaborating to ruin his life.
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Skinny Dip / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Skinny Dip / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Inverted. As soon as he gets home from the cruise ship, Chaz starts boxing all of Joey's clothes, makeup, and other belongings, and hustles them to the dump. It's one of several clues that deepens Rolvaag's conviction that Chaz didn't love his wife. Joey, when she enters their home, is simultaneously enraged and heartbroken at how nonchalantly her husband "erased" her from the house.
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Skinny Dip / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
Skinny Dip / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction:
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Skinny Dip / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Skinny Dip / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Mick, arguing against Joey's initial plan to rush back to Miami and surprise her husband in the shower; Likewise, Joey's brother, Corbett, and Mick both firmly veto her idea of showing up at her own funeral to appraise Chaz's reaction, even when she promises to disguise herself;
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Skinny Dip / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Skinny Dip / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Chaz tried to murder Joey because he thought she had realized that he was faking his environmental impact assessments on Red's businesses. In truth she was totally ignorant of that, but her efforts to find out why he tried to kill her ultimately exposes it anyway.
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Skinny Dip / int_aa822c89	type	Disappointed by the Motive
Skinny Dip / int_aa822c89	comment	Disappointed by the Motive: When Joey finally confronts a (drugged) Chaz, demanding to know why he tried to murder her:
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Skinny Dip / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Skinny Dip / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: One of the symptoms of Chaz's disquiet after Joey starts haunting him.
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Skinny Dip / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Skinny Dip / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Chaz has been planted in the state water management district to fake the results from outflow from Red Hammernut's farms; but he's stuck with his state salary and gets nothing for his corruption except the occasional cash gift from Red. Red has promised him a highly-paid position with Red's company after the scam is "finished" but Chaz (even knowing how ruthless Red is in business) has never stopped to consider that, once Chaz stops faking the water data, Red will have no further use for him; Played with when Chaz receives the phony will, purportedly leaving Joey's entire $13 million fortune to him: "The irony would be epic, for Joey wouldn't have left him a dime if she'd known about his faking the water data. Meaning he had murdered her for no reason... or at least the wrong reason."
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Skinny Dip / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Skinny Dip / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Hiaasen recounts in scathing detail how the State of Florida spent a century dredging, draining, and otherwise eradicating 90% of the original Everglades, but it was not until the late 20th century when a series of severe droughts "shattered the cocksure assumption that there would always be plenty of water to steal":
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Skinny Dip / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Skinny Dip / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Red Hammernut hires everyone from crooked hydrologists to hitmen to keep his farming operation looking clean enough on paper that he doesn't have to spend money on pollution controls.
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Skinny Dip / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
Skinny Dip / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Chaz arrogantly insists on being addressed as "Dr. Perrone", then immediately has to explain that he's not a physician, especially when Tool keeps bugging him to write a prescription for painkiller.
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Skinny Dip / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Skinny Dip / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Maureen, a lonely hospice patient that he meets while on the hunt for secondhand fentanyl patches, quickly becomes one to Tool. The memoirs and lessons she imparts on him gradually inspire a Heel–Face Turn, and part of the book ends with him rescuing her from the awful facility she had been living in.
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Skinny Dip / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Skinny Dip / int_e4c89b67	comment	Likewise, Joey's brother, Corbett, and Mick both firmly veto her idea of showing up at her own funeral to appraise Chaz's reaction, even when she promises to disguise herself;
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Skinny Dip / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
Skinny Dip / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: Chaz tries to kill his wife to protect his crooked dealings with Red Hammernut; when he thinks he's succeeded, he suffers impotence for the first time in his life (since sex with her was the only part of the marriage he was really attached to).
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Skinny Dip / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Skinny Dip / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: After Chaz escapes (partially with Tool's connivance), Red makes the unwise decision to berate him relentlessly, and finally slap him across the top of his head during a brief roadside stop. Tool finds the gesture "covey[s] an intolerable lack of respect" and reacts appropriately.
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Skinny Dip / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Skinny Dip / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Joey confronts her husband, she angrily berates him for not only trying to murder her, but also throwing away all her belongings after she was gone. He tries to placate her by offering to return her jewelry (which he kept because it was much too valuable to throw away). She is not placated.
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