Book #130: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls by Marc Cerasini

 


Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Marc Cerasini

 Released: October 17th, 1995

My 60th book for 2025 was Marc Cerasini’s “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls”.  


Here is what I learned:

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  • Ace leaps from a mountain on to a rescue helicopter.
  • Ace fails to save a raccoon “Cliffhanger”-style from a plane wreckage.
  • After the raccoon incident, Ace lived with monks in an ashram, sort of like a monastery in the Tibet mountains.
  • Fulton Greenwall is an Englishman sent by t the African government to hire Ace got a case finding a sacred bat.
  • The head monk floats in the air.
  • “I must apologize.  Although I have struggled to attain spiritual greatness, I still derive pleasure from messing with people’s heads.”
  • Fulton offers Ace $20,000 even if he doesn’t find the bat.
  • Spine the monkey wears a turban.
  • The monks have a raging party to celebrate Ace’s departure.
  • Ace has a Slinky.
  • The Bonai Province is the most beautiful part of Nibia.
  • Ace likes Hootie and the Blowfish
  • The elephant’s name is Boba.
  • Vincent Cadby is the consul general.
  • Burton Quinn owns Quinnland Safari Park.
  • Hitu is the chief of tribal security.
  • Gahjii and Mick Katie are Australians who are known poachers seen in the area.
  • They arrive during the gorillas’ mating season.
  • The Wachatis did not know disease until the white man came.
  • Every young Wachati warrior must pass a two-year period of physical and mental tests.
  • Spitting at someone is a sign of great affection in the Wachati tribe.
  • Ouda is the chief’s oldest son.
  • Ace ears guano, or bat droppings.  He deserves it as a fruity paste.
  • Ace has a fear of bats.
  • Ace commandeers a robotic rhino.
  • The books differs from the movie in that Ace escapes through the rhino’s mouth.
  • Ace Ventura carries a taser.
  • Spike knows how to tase humans.
  • Quinn paid Derrick McCane to find the bat.
  • Badaga means “white devil”.
  • Gahjii has a very limited vocabulary.
  • Ace knows how to wrestle crocodiles.
  • A crocodile is a Jurassic ancestor.
  • There is a repeated line misprint on pages 145-146.
  • The Wachootoos outnumber the Wachatis 3-to-1.

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Overall, pretty good read.  The film is considered one of the best of the series, and the top of the Next Generation films.  The novelization serves it well.  I still say Wrath of Khan was better, but you still cannot deny how good this was.  Recommended.

Recommended.  Especially for Borg and history fans.

On to Book #131: Iron Man: The Cal Ripken Jr. Story by Harvey Rosenfeld.

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Need to catch up?  See previous blog post: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

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