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    Hap and Leonard
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    English
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    Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  4. Dimensions
    5.16 x 0.59 x 7.8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0753814382
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0753814383
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0753814382
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0753814383
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.16 x 0.59 x 7.8 inches
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Joe R. Lansdale

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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.

Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.

A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror." He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero.

Lansdale is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

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Rhouse
5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable Characters!
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2013
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I resisted reading "Savage Season" because it's known as a cult favorite, and generally I'm not a fan of books that a few people spend time and internet pages discussing. I mean it's a book, and reading it shouldn't make you think you're in a cool fraternity, ya know?

And while I still refuse to join a Hap and Leonard Fan Page, I admit to loving "Savage Season" and its unforgettable cast of characters. In Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, author Joe Lansdale has created two of contemporary literature's funniest, yet most sincere and realistic characters. It didn't take more than a few pages to understand and love them. Before I was halfway through, I had ordered the next book in the series, "Mucho Mojo". I didn't care what the second book was about...I needed more Hap and Leonard.

Yes, Hap is straight and white and Leonard is gay and Black--but neither point is belabored unless it is germane to the plot. They're in East Texas (a locale Lansdale describes perfectly) and the duo are somewhere in their mid/late forties. Some reviews describe them as brawling rednecks. I disagree. What Hap and Leonard are, really, are a couple of intelligent, loyal, clever-as-hell men who deeply believe what they believe and have a bond that is enviable.

Savage Season reminds me of the movie "Pulp Fiction." Surely not the plot, but the outrageous mixture of violence and humor...with Hap and Leonard easily compared to Jules and Vincent (except that Hap and Leonard are moral and intelligent). Their dark humor in the face of strange circumstances provided hours of reading pleasure and made me a Hap and Leonard fan for life.

Lansdale has become a favorite author of mine. I started with a young adult novel, "All The Earth, Thrown to the Sky" and moved on to "A Fine Dark Line" before finally giving in and starting the Hap and Leonard series. I am SO glad I did! I'm now about 60% through "Mucho Mojo" and--yes--I've already ordered the third book in Lansdale's remarkable series.

"Savage Season" is laced with sexual situations and violence and--as I said--dark humor. But it is delightfully entertaining, and deeper than it appears. I thoroughly enjoyed it and heartily recommend it.
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Steve McAfee
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2024
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First time for this author. Entertaining. A bit far fetched but humorous just the dame.
Will probably try another book
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JC
3.0 out of 5 stars What I like. The two main characters have a good close
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018
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What I like. The two main characters have a good close ...

I have read the first six of these.

What I like. The two main characters have a good close manly friendship with lots of serious ribbing and taunting. This is man humor. Men make fun of each other and belittle each other's physical abilities. This struck me as real. I liked that Leonard was gay but that did not define him in any stereotypical way. I like that Hap is totally on Leonard's side but admits he is a little uncomfortable with the topic of male gay sexuality. Again, this seems real to me.

The main nice thing is the book is generally well written. No clunky or horribly stereotyped characters or lack of detail. There are a lot of quirky characters, and yes plot and violence are important here. At least Hap questions his dark side and violence.

Things I did not like. The male ribbing over sexuality gets tiring after a few books and by book six I am annoyed with it and thinking it is coming across as formulaic. The relationship between Hap and Leonard is better than the horrible stereotyping that goes on in the Parker Spenser novels where Hawk on the one hand is the ghetto man and on the other hand an intellectual who reduces Harvard Black Studies Female professors to drooling idiots who are after his sexuality.

There is a lot of sex here that is not necessarily liberating. Hap's female partner is fourth, fifth and sixth character has become a chance for just flat out dirty talk and sexuality. She is sort of an excuse for the author to talk up sexuality and come up with more slang related to the female sex organs. She frequent appears stark naked in front of people.

The problem is that there is not really much reason for Hap and Leonard to always get involved in these violent scenarios. They are two guys in West Texas who are out of work and just happen to luck into these things. Then they go off the rails into bad guy land and shoot the heck out of everybody and somehow end up back home with no consequences. Sometimes it works. In one book, they go to an openly racist town to find someone and think they can get away with it. They get the holy heck beaten out of them, and it is interesting seeing them psychologically deal with it. Then of course, they rally around and go back and shoot the holy heck out of everyone and make it out without legal consequences.

If you want a plot driven book with some quirky humor and characters who eventually have to shoot the place up, I suspect you will like it. This is the first book so start here and enjoy the next few.

By the fourth or so you will likely either be bailing on the series or suspending disbelief and just going along with another Hap and Leonard adventure. But give it a try if you like this kind of thing.

Either way is ok. I am not sure I will give it another shot but definitely will buy a used copy.

Hope I gave some info that may make you decide. After all, that is the point of a review.
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Dylan Thomas Porter
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect.
Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2021
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Came in on time. New copy, perfect condition, what more can I say? Thanks again.
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D.B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Mal keine Cops, das ist so wohltuend
Reviewed in Germany on December 27, 2021
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Ich liebe diese Reihe bis jetzt...zwei Underdogs, die mehr oder minder zufällig in die wildesten Abenteuer stolpern.....und das alles mit unvergleichlich sarkastischen Humor gewürzt... A must read
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Pont Berivan
5.0 out of 5 stars Drôle & passionnant
Reviewed in France on August 9, 2017
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J'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir à découvrir le premier livre de la série Hap & Leonard. L'humour ironique me plaît particulièrement et l'histoire est très bien racontée, je n'ai pas pu lâcher le livre avant d'en connaître la fin! Je me réjouis de lire les autres livres
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Levi Ryder Bianco
5.0 out of 5 stars A Stunning Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2016
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I came across Hap and Leonard in a charity shop in Fort William, in the Highlands of Scotland. We had taken a day off from mountaineering, and a certain cover caught my eye.
It took me a couple of months to get around to reading it, but by the time I did, somewhere in the alps, it took me all of about 10 hours to read it. Some I read to myself, some I read aloud to companions. At every moment in the Reading process, myself and my companions were hooked, totally immersed in the plot, the characters and the flavour of the tale.
I have been waiting since then for the series to be translated to Kindle, and have begun reading the series in earnest from the beginning.
If you like an earthy, grounded read, satirical and dark humour, relentless pace and stylish, natural writing, Hap and Leonard are for you.
If you don't, well, I couldn't recommend a suitable tale if I wracked my brains!
Lansdale has flair, style and muddy wisdom in excess. His writing flows, his tales grow in the telling, and it's hard to not get involved with the main characters, feel what they feel despite the lack of obvious statements. I've read a few other books by him (Limbus Inc ranking the highest for me) and he does not disappoint!
In my opinion, a great adventure, brilliantly written, and a crime to not read!
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Xissur
5.0 out of 5 stars Landsdale non delude mai
Reviewed in Italy on May 5, 2014
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Il primo della serie di Hap e Leonard, c'è un po' meno di vis comica è un po' più di violenza di quello che si trova negli episodi più recenti del duo.
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