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Title: The Drive-In: A Double-Feature Omnibus by Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 078670442X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64
Rating: 5
Summary: Lansdale at his finest!
Comment: Joe R. Lansdale is true pulp fiction: fast, cheap and out of control. Known mostly for hard-bitten, outrageous crime novels featuring Hap and Leonard, and a bunch of extraordinarily grim, nasty, bleak horror stories, Lansdale spent most of the late 80s/early 90s in genre obscurity. Writers with a higher profile but less raw talent (Barry Gifford, Elmore Leonard, Dean Koontz) left him in the dust. With "Mucho Mojo" he finally got what he deserved, and NOW "The Drive-In" novels are back in print, hallelujah, the Good Lord be praised! This is cheesy schlock in the best sense--a mind-boggling Texan SF misadventure featuring the Popcorn King, an all night horrormovie marathon, creatures from outer space, mechanical dinosaurs, the end of the world and naked boobies. Lansdale does it all here. Quirky, off-beat and strange don't do it justice. Just buy it, and discover what a unique, comic, horrifying and flat-out entertaining writer Joe Lansdale is!
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, back in circullation!
Comment: Ten years out of print has been way too long for this gem to be hidden away from the reader (I had to hunt three years to find a thrashed used copy). This book was written for the thinking man who, deep down in his heart, loves bad, cheesy horror movies. You know,the kind you rent with a group of friends, order pizza, drink cheap beer, and make fun of throughout the duration. Lansdale, one of our finest, most creative writers has an obvious love for this genre of trash cinema. He creates an apocolyptic world where four teenages become trapped in a drive in theatre during an all-night festival of trash films. Their lives become the most horrifying film of them all. This novel is a definite must-have for those nights when your friends are out of town, the pizza parlor goes out of business, and the beer has gone flat.
Rating: 5
Summary: Comets and popcorn and suicide trees, oh my...
Comment: This book is flat-out hilarious! One day Jack and his friends are typical boys on the verge of adulthood, the next they are caught in a nightmarish, other world created when a comet near-misses the drive in where they are enjoying an all night horror show. Stuck in the dark world of the drive in, watching only violent bloody horror movies over and over, eating only concession-stand food, Jack narrates a world that is terrifying but not without its humor. And that's just part one of this incredible tale. It continues with our intrepid heroes getting out of the drive-in to explore the next evolution of their new world. (a world in which a baby dinosaur is automatically named Toothy before it gobbles down an unburied corpse) It would take me too long to describe the numerous quirky, scary and surreal characters and happenings in this omnibus. I was glued to this book until I finished it. It's hilarious, it's surreal, it's chilling, and I kept shaking my head saying "no way!" before I plunged right into the next chapter.
Lansdale is one of the few authors who can take grisly events and plant a sarcastic, hilarious slant to them. And succeed! I laughed out loud throughout while also cringing from some of the word pictures Lansdale creates here. Make no mistake, this is horror at its best. But it's also a witty look at what happens to us when we lose the most basic of worldly trappings. Reading Lansdale is always like stepping into a roller-coaster world, and any of his books are more than worth your time.
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Title: Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 078670389X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Freezer Burn by Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 0446608823 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 0446606022 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Captains Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 0892967285 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 20 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mucho Mojo: A Novel of Suspense by Joe R. Lansdale ISBN: 0446401870 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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