Weird Florida (ISBN 0977107957)

I was disappointed after reading this book:
It reminds me of a tabloid newspaper. I thought the price was a little high for what I got, as other books offer the same content and do not cost as much. I think the author could have spent his talents working on another subject. Like I say, it is okay, but be prepared for a rehash of what has already been published.

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 to ride the glamour and mystic of the island yet the reality is something entirely different. Once off the island you enter into a near Third World level of crime, filth ridden, grossly overpriced, hell hole of nightmare. DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE CONSIDERING A MOVE OR VACATION. It is no wonder to me that prior to the turn of the 19th to 20th century this place was considered inhabitable.

Who is Eliot Kleinberg:
I read this book and found it to be a joke. It does nothing but make fun of Florida and Floridians. This author seems to just throw things together and call it a book. I gave the book to the local library (in Florida) and they asked who Eliot Kleinberg was and wanted to have Charlie Carlson's Wierd Florida book instead. But between Charlie Carlson's Wierd Florida and Eliot Kleinberg's fateful attempt I would have to give away Kleinberg's Wierd Florida and keep Charlie Carlson's Wierd Florida since you never throw away quality. I did find Carlson's Wierd Florida very interesting and it did not make fun of Florida or its citizens. Charlie Carlson has a bit more respect for the state he lives in and also for the people of Florida as well. Eliot Kleinberg did nothing but make me feel awful and I have more college than he does. Anyway, I highly recommend Charlie Carlson's Wierd Florida as it is now pretty much a national level book sold in many different states and at the Barnes & Noble here in Honolulu, HI.

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.

Not weird as much as goofy:
Kleinberg's book is more silly goofy and stereotypical of floridians. It wasn't funny or well written. I would recommend "Weird Florida" by Charlie Carlson instead.