by Joe R. Lansdale
Published 1994. "I kept thinking I ought to wish Florida and Hanson well and be happy for them. That was the right thing to do, but I kept hoping she would miscalculate and get her period on her wedding night." This is a very specific kind of read for readers with a very specific taste. There ar...
While the first great book in this series, Savage Season, focuses a lot on Hap Collins's backstory, this second installment focuses a bit more on Leonard's past and the town that he grew up in. Hap owes Leonard after getting him involved in the violent events of the first book so he agrees to accomp...
When Leonard's Uncle Chester dies and leaves him a house, Hap and Leonard move in in order to fix it up and find a child's skeleton wrapped in a porno mag. Was Uncle Chester a child predator or was someone else the killer? And does it have anything to do with the crackhouse next door?2014 RereadHere...
A marvelous mixture of texas gothic and a satire of regional tropes, religion and filled with a generous helping of sexual repression and lust and sex among other things.Hap and Leonard's world is very different from my own. Landsdale writes so damn well that you get swept into this world and nothin...
A marvelous mixture of texas gothic and a satire of regional tropes, religion and filled with a generous helping of sexual repression and lust and sex among other things.Hap and Leonard's world is very different from my own. Landsdale writes so damn well that you get swept into this world and nothin...
I liked the two main characters and rural East Texas setting but the plot was not my favorite type and I thought there was a bit too much soapboxing. Narration was done by Phil Gigante who did a great low bass voice for Leonard and a nice easy going drawl for Hap which fit the characters perfectly.
Hap and Leonard are very engaging and funny characters. This was a good mystery, grim stuff with the appropriate sense of humor to lighten the mood.
Not only is Lansdale moving quickly up the ranks of my favorite authors list, but the dynamic ass-kicking, ebony and ivory duo of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are becoming two of my favorite fictional characters.This installment was darker than the series opener, and had the normal fisticuffs and ba...
Leonard Pine is fast becoming my all-time favorite fictional character. When he's not bragging about his sexual prowess, badmouthing preachers, or burning down crack houses he is making some pretty heavy sociological observations with the sureness of a cynic and the realism of the streets. Add on Ha...
The best of the Hap and Leonard series. Lansdale knows how to tell 'em. Hap and Leonard are both well-written characters.
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