Excerpt from Joe Lansdale's book sounds like a direct hit on the Bushes

[blm]

The whole evil and dumb lot of them.


From his book - The Bottoms.


If you took the Nation family's brains and wadded them up together and stuck them up a gnat's butt and shook the gnat, it'd sound like a ball bearing in a boxcar.

[villager]

1. Lansdale's great. But isn't "Sunset and Sawdust" his latest?

Just read that one-- though loved "The Bottoms," too...

Some good political stuff in "S&S" as well, about race, white male privilege, etc... All done in that Lansdale-y way!

[blm]

2. fixed it to book.

The Bottoms is actually the latest Lansdale book that mr. blm is reading. He doesn't do things in order. ;))))

[villager]

5. "A Fine Dark Line" is also terrific.

And I just noticed there's a sequel out to "Zeppelins West!"

[blm]

3. Lansdale's way - every genre audience goes away satisfied.

;)

[Rob H.]

4. Joe Lansdale rocks--I've been a huge fan of his for a while now

His Hap Collins & Leonard Pine novels are some of the most laugh-out-loud funny detective fiction I've ever read, and I highly recommend A Fine Dark Line, too.

Edited to add: Flaming London is actually his latest--I just picked it up a couple of weeks ago but haven't started it yet.

[blm]

6. Something told me that there would be DUers who knew the beauty of

Lansdale's work.

[Rob H.]

7. I actually stumbled on his work by accident

I found Bad Chili in a bookstore and read the back and thought it would be worth a read. That was the first Hap Collins/Leonard Pine book I read, and when I finished it I immediately set about finding the others in that series. Soon followed The Drive-In 1 & 2, The Drive-In: The Bus Tour, A Fine Dark Line, Sunset and Sawdust, and Burning London. This thread actually made me order Dead in the West (a zombie Western, believe it or not) and The Boar.

He also posts free short stories on his site every Thursday, if anyone wants to check 'em out.