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Up until a few weeks ago, I heard a lot about Joe Lansdale, but never read anything by him.
Then I got God of the Razor, which featured the excellent novel The Nightrunners, plus related stories such as God of the Razor, The Shaggy House, Not From Detroit, King of Shadows, and a couple others. Some very good stuff there.
I then picked up Bumper Crop, and am halfway through this collection of stories. This guy can seriously write. I'm loving just about everything I've read by him so far.
I know a lot of you good folks already enjoy Lansdale, but if you haven't tried him out, you should. Like me, you've been missing out!
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:58 pm Posts: 6411 Location: The Back of Beyond.
Man do I know what you're feeling right now, Craig. Reminds me of when I sat down to read a book called The Bottoms, and was completely floored.
One of the six different collections I'm reading right now is Writer of The Purple Rage by Lansdale. If you love his short stories, try to hunt this one up. Lost Echoes was a more recent one of his, your library should have it, and that one kept me up all night reading.
And don't even get me started on how much more popular Joe should be with writing ability like his.
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Wow, I just read one of my favorite short stories ever, and it was from Bumper Crop. The name of the story was "Pilots".
It concerns three groups of people. The first is a group of 12 semi's going down the highway in a convoy, because someone has recently been killing truckers in the area.
The second is another trucker, code name Tulsa Tramp, who is a short ways behind the convoy and is listening via CB radio to their conversations. Tramp fought in Vietnam before becoming a trucker, and is still fighting personal demons from it. He flew a chopper, and he and another pilot were flying in low to pick up a group of Marines about to be killed. The other chopper went down, and immediately went under fire from the enemy. Tramp, instead of going in to help, took his chopper back up and escaped, leaving everyone else to die.
And third, of course, are the killers, driving a highly modified Thunderbird called "Black Bird" by the truckers. There are 4 men, who all used to be headed into the air force, fighter pilots apparently, until one night returning to base they were hit head-on by a drunk driver in a semi. Their car turned into a fireball, and all the men are missing either arms or legs, have horrendous burns (as in a melted eyeball, flesh burned off so you can see skull), and can hardly be considered human. They rigged a Thunderbird to have gun positions coming out a sun-roof, the trunk, and the windows; the bird is painted like a fighter plane, with red paint slashes on the side representing their kills. They also have molatov cocktails, and they go about seeking revenge on truck drivers.
On this night, the "Black Bird" begins picking off the convoy one by one, and Tulsa Tramp can see the carnage from his viewpoint farther back. He has a decision - help his fellow truckers by coming up behind the killers, or take a fast approaching exit, and leave the others to die, just like in Vietnam.
He takes the exit, but as fate would have it, when the killers hear on the CB that the cops are closing in, they take the following exit and backtrack, putting them on a collision course with Tramp.
I realize I just gave a lot away, but if you haven't read this story, you should. It was so entertaining I just got lost in the story for a short while this afternoon, and what more can you ask for than that?
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:58 pm Posts: 6411 Location: The Back of Beyond.
I have Pilots in my copy of Writer of The Purple Rage.
I read half of that collection all out of order, and Pilots wasn't one of the stories I read. I'll have to make that the first one I read when I dig back in to the book.
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Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 1886 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
I have read an awful lot of Joe Lansdale's stuff and the very worst I can think to say about Joe is he is goddamn great. If you want to be insulting I would have to settle for just calling him superb.
Joe's the real deal. The man delivers, every time. When I grow up I want to be like Joe!
I met him briefly in New York. Won't pretend that we were the best of buddies, but he was a gentleman and a real cool cat and one hell of a badassed Texified storyteller. Anything by Lansdale deserves to be picked up and read.
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I met him at a booksigning he was doing in San Diego. Just listening to him tell his story leaves you in awe. He's one of the most underrated storytellers living today. He isn't a novelist or a writer. He is a storyteller. Which is a whole other breed in and of itself. And that makes him unique. Anyone can tell a story, but not everyone can be a storyteller.
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