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Summary: Joe R. Lansdale is the Champion!
Review: Champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale delivers another total knockout with Rumble Tumble! It's Hap and Leonard up to their usual tricks, but this time the recipe includes hookers, bikers, and midgets. Hang on, Hoss, we're in for some fun! But don't take my word for it--you can read an excerpt on Lansdale's official website.
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Summary: A story of crashing the party.
Review: Hap and Leonard aren't afraid of taking on the odds. In this, a prime example of the Lansdale's Hap-and-Leonard suspense novels, our modest heroes stand toe to toe with nearly impossible opposition to defend a friend's family honor.Joe R. Lansdale's writing style, as always, makes for fascinating and humorous reading. Hap, Leonard, Brett, and all the book's characters have a raunchy, earthy sense of humor and a uniquely southern delivery that greases the rails on this bumpy, suspenseful ride. Give this one a try. If you like it, try "Bad Chili" and "Mucho Mojo."
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Summary: A story of crashing the party.
Review: Hap and Leonard aren't afraid of taking on the odds. In this, a prime example of the Lansdale's Hap-and-Leonard suspense novels, our modest heroes stand toe to toe with nearly impossible opposition to defend a friend's family honor. Joe R. Lansdale's writing style, as always, makes for fascinating and humorous reading. Hap, Leonard, Brett, and all the book's characters have a raunchy, earthy sense of humor and a uniquely southern delivery that greases the rails on this bumpy, suspenseful ride. Give this one a try. If you like it, try "Bad Chili" and "Mucho Mojo."
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Summary: College Boy
Review: I haven't read this one yet, but I've read all the other Hap & Leonard books, so I'll stand by the above rating. If Rumble Tumble's as good as the others, it needs all five stars. I have to believe Mr. One-Star from Princeton, NJ, missed the point. You fellas reckon he's one of them Ivy League boys?
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Summary: Lansdale finally lost me.
Review: I'm a Lansdale fan and have been since he was publishing short stories in small semi-pro magazines. He's a good writer who works with great style. But RUMBLE TUMBLE was awful. The plot was thin, completely improbable, and the book read as if Lansdale *knew* it was awful and was just going through the motions to get the darned thing finished and out of his life so that he could proceed with the next project. For the first time I couldn't believe a thing Hap & Leonard were saying, nor could Lansdale's cleverness make me forget that his two unlikely heroes were doing the impossible. I didn't believe a word of this poorly rendered copy. And the ending, which takes place in a remote airport hangar, was about as stupid and pointless and unlikely as anything I've read. I look forward to FREEZER BURN. But I think I've read my last Hap & Leonard novel.
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Summary: Hilarious dialogue and unforgettable characters
Review: I've read all the Hap and Leonard sagas. This one ranks up there with all of them. It seems like every page has dialogue that makes me laugh out loud. Biker priests, ass kicken brawls and a prodigal armadillo. It doesn't get any better than that. Mr. Lansdale, you sure make writing look easy. Can't wait for the next installment and Im sure we'll be seeing Hap and Leonard on the big screen in the near future.
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Summary: What can I say? I like Lansdale and this doesn't disappoint
Review: If you've read any of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard books then you know what to expect, and you know that it can't be a bad thing. Lansdale is one of the few purely diversionary novelists who I still buy and read, and this book is a perfect example why. Its over in a day or two, and the ride is funny, suspenseful, and somehow humane. Nothing new here, and the earlier books ("Mucho Mojo" etc.) do it just a smidge better, but for what it is - a fistfight of a paperback with explosive action and absurd situations - it is exemplary. Drug-addicted prostitutes, a midget pimp, two tough guys and a renegade pilot... really, how could you go wrong with that mix? A good paperback with a slightly better pedigree than execution, but recommended nonetheless.
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Summary: What can I say? I like Lansdale and this doesn't disappoint
Review: If you've read any of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard books then you know what to expect, and you know that it can't be a bad thing. Lansdale is one of the few purely diversionary novelists who I still buy and read, and this book is a perfect example why. Its over in a day or two, and the ride is funny, suspenseful, and somehow humane. Nothing new here, and the earlier books ("Mucho Mojo" etc.) do it just a smidge better, but for what it is - a fistfight of a paperback with explosive action and absurd situations - it is exemplary. Drug-addicted prostitutes, a midget pimp, two tough guys and a renegade pilot... really, how could you go wrong with that mix? A good paperback with a slightly better pedigree than execution, but recommended nonetheless.
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Summary: Hap and Leonard are back and I love it!!!
Review: Joe R. Lansdale is my favorite author, and I was very much looking forward to Rumble Tumble. I was not let down. Rumble Tumble ranks up there with Two Bear Mombo (my favorite Hap and Leonard adventure). The dialogue was as always top notch, Leonard's speech to Hap about replacing empty toilet paper rolls is worth the price of admission alone. All in all this was a great book and I would recomend it to anyone who loves a great adventure. My only recomendation is that Bad Chili must be read to understand the begining.
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Summary: My first Lansdale, and I could read another.
Review: Joe R. Lansdale's book Rumble Tumble stepped on my long-sleeping interest in murder mysteries, and woke it up. And after the shock wore off my interest and I started to laugh. And the laughing out loud continued for page after page, starting with Joan Crawford's comment on Nietzsche (via the film adaptation of Edna Sherry's "Sudden Fear") through Lansdale's take on long and pointless stories ("laborious as the Book of Mormon") and beyond. All of which makes reading satisfying. But this book is published by the Mysterious Press, and it's supposed to deliver more than just laughs. Suspense. Fear. Heroes on a quest that just might be pointless, except for the honor of doing the right thing. Danger. Pet armadillos. And sex. That's the great thing about Rumble Tumble. It delivers everything. Even the armadillo. Hap Collins is the clear-eyed Don Quixote of this tale, a little old and more than a little down on his luck. His own house was blown down by a tornado. His Dulcinea is a beautiful sexy red head named Brett, who ended her first marriage with a shovel and a match; Hap doesn't want to move in with her unless he thinks he has a good chance of not screwing up their relationship. At the same time his need to move in with her or somewhere is increasing as his current host and best friend Leonard Pine tires of Hap's lack of housekeeping habits. If Leonard is the Sancho Panza of this tale, he has extra qualities the original lacked, qualities which make him a good friend. He can help you burn down a crack house or raid a whore house, and get away with your life. His hard-eyed take on the world can do more for his friend's conscience than a first confession for a seven-year-old. Which is good for Hap: although he doesn't have a lot on his conscience as the story opens, he has a lot on his mind. He worries over what he's done and what he might do. Especially when the right thing to do becomes a rescue of Brett's daughter Tillie from a whore house in Hooty Hoot, Oklahoma. As the adventure continues from Hooty Hoot to a prairie dog farm in west Texas to a special little vacation spot for gang members down in Mexico Hap's sins of omission and, especially, commission mount up. Betrayal and murder keep them close company until the payment of the final bet. Some readers may complain that this book is just the same old themes recycled in a politically correct suspense thriller. The evidence starts with a tip of the Stetson toward ageism (all the good people are in their forties), there's a black and white friendship (Hap is white and Leonard is black ), homosexual/heterosexual friendship (Hap is straight and Leonard is gay), an acknowledgment of women's strength (Brett shoots and clubs with the rest of them), and a tribute to cross species friendship (Leonard is a man and Bill is an armadillo). The defense points to Red, a midget with a bad childhood who constantly displays his sensitivity to references to his size. When Leonard says "I just don't care for your sorry little ass" Red's response is, "There's that little stuff again." Red's problems have nothing to do with his size, and everything to do with his moral nature. He's a con man, a thief, a pimp, and a murderer: He'll do anything for money. Leonard's take on Red is, "he could talk up a good steak ranchero, but he should have died at birth." The defense rests. Rumble Tumble is a good read. Enjoy it.
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