The Two-Bear Mambo
Registered by 
GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 2/28/2016
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 2/28/2016 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I found this fair-condition paperback at a local thrift shop, and nabbed it for another release copy.
Sometimes when I'm reading one of Lansdale's novels or short stories, I find myself wondering whether I keep on reading is to prove to myself that I'm tough enough to take it {wry grin}. This book, like the others, has a lot of bad things happening to good people (and to bad people too, and to people whose characters are as complex as real-life people so it can be hard to put 'em on one side or the other), and sometimes the suspense of knowing that another Bad Thing is coming just... well, gets to me.
If you don't cope well with gruesome scenes of threats, violence, cruelty, and/or racism (overt or veiled), this is not the series for you. I appreciate the deft writing, the humor, the surprisingly varied characters, and the rather twisted plots, not to mention the enduring friendship between unlikely pals Hap and Leonard, and I usually find it worthwhile to have waded through the bloodshed. That's the case with this one, though I must say that it's more lyrically melancholy than some of the other books - an odd turn given how the story opened. Lansdale's just not like anybody else!
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Other Hap and Leonard books I've read:
Savage Season
Bad Chili
Rumble Tumble
Sometimes when I'm reading one of Lansdale's novels or short stories, I find myself wondering whether I keep on reading is to prove to myself that I'm tough enough to take it {wry grin}. This book, like the others, has a lot of bad things happening to good people (and to bad people too, and to people whose characters are as complex as real-life people so it can be hard to put 'em on one side or the other), and sometimes the suspense of knowing that another Bad Thing is coming just... well, gets to me.
If you don't cope well with gruesome scenes of threats, violence, cruelty, and/or racism (overt or veiled), this is not the series for you. I appreciate the deft writing, the humor, the surprisingly varied characters, and the rather twisted plots, not to mention the enduring friendship between unlikely pals Hap and Leonard, and I usually find it worthwhile to have waded through the bloodshed. That's the case with this one, though I must say that it's more lyrically melancholy than some of the other books - an odd turn given how the story opened. Lansdale's just not like anybody else!
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Other Hap and Leonard books I've read:
Savage Season
Bad Chili
Rumble Tumble
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Park And Ride (At Exit 2) Bookshelf in Salem, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, February 28, 2016
GoryDetails at Park And Ride (At Exit 2) Bookshelf in Salem, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, February 28, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (2/28/2016 UTC) at Park And Ride (At Exit 2) Bookshelf in Salem, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book in the book-swap shelf inside the terminal at around 1; hope someone enjoys it!*** Released as part of the 2016 Heads, Shoulders, Knees, Toes release challenge, for the embedded "ear" in the title. ***
*** Released as part of the 2016 TV Series release challenge. ***
