He's a brilliant writer, this one just wasn't for me. I've read a bunch of Lansdale's novels and this is the first one I didn't really like. I'd hoped the second half did something more, but it was pretty much more of what I'd already read.
By the end of the first half I was already done. Yeah, it's a weird story, but that's really all there is to it. The set up was great, Lansdale's writing was just as off the wall, fun, and bonkers as I'd have expected for this type of story. I liked the first half of The Drive-In quite a bit. I didn't care for that particular short story, and though I liked The Bottoms, it's far from Lansdale's best (of what I've read, that placeholder is Mucho Mojo). Also, it's one of those Lansdale stories that everyone seems to love, right along with the short story "The Night They Missed the Horror Show" and the novel The Bottoms. Knowing that made me exited and a little bit hesitant to read this one since I've never been a big bizarro fan. It's regarded a seminal work in early bizarro, you know, before there was even a term for oddball fiction that bends the rules and tests the boundaries. Here's a book that I've heard a lot about. The interior illustrations were an awesome bonus! Though at times I felt the descriptions could have been dialed back aīit. Some of the better writing I've read in a while, This was a fantastic read, particularly for fans of military sci-fi orĪpocalyptic yarns. Two interesting characters whoĪre on the run for very different reasons than mere survival. We're introduced to as a man who seems to have been absorbed into some The focus is primarily on a young punk kid and what The characters are fully developed and believable as theyĭeal with the reality that life as they know it has changed forever, The prose is richĪnd beautiful, though his attention to detail often goes a bit overboardįor my taste. Survival, this one weaves a tapestry detailing why the world isĬrumbling, and it's not zombies or a contagion as in so many other books Thriller that doesn't tread the usual territory of an end of the world as The End of the World Dan Henk wrote a fairly epic sci-fi/military I'm currently working through the wonderful stories in Ronald Kelly's collection The Essential Sick Stuff, Prophecy by David Seltzer, and.I really want to read O ne For the Road by Wesley Southard,īut I can't remember where I put the book!!! Dell Abyss published some amazing books, and also some that were a bit too experimental for me. This book was originally published around '85 in a special limited edition, but wasn't published in a mass market edition until the 90's when the Dell Abyss line picked it up. Mental illness he was dealing with, but I just couldn't take it any more. I'm sure his obsession with those suits was indicative of some kind of What turned out to be the final straw was when the narrator continued to detail the six or seven suits he has in his closet. It was almost dream-like, which made it very confusing. I wanted to like the story, but I just didn't find it very engaging.
The writing was solid, and very unlike McDowell's southern gothic style prose that I'm used to. I DNF'd it (to those in the back, that means Did Not Finish). A quick read, there are a few things to like, but I felt like this story could have been so much more.ĭespite my adoration of McDowell's work, this one just didn't do it for me. It felt like the book was written by whoever wrote old episodes of Scooby Doo Where Are You? That's not a knock on Scooby Doo (I'm a fan), but I expect more out of a novel. Most of the story is bad character development and terrible dialogue. The back cover copy promises mutated seaweed, and though there are hints of that, I felt it was a missed opportunity. It was readable, but in a pulp sort of way. Unfortunately that where's anything good ends. This book had a fascinating premise, and being set in Hawaii was a plus, considering I've only read a few books set in the Aloha State. I know I'd hate to be judged by my first two books. I will try another of his novels some day. It's not a bad book, but it's not very good at all. They get a taste for human flesh and become more bold. Creatures living under an abandoned building in a small town, devouring those unfortunate enough to get in their way. I read this one a few weeks ago and I can't really remember much about it. Plagued by uninteresting characters, more typos than you typically see in mass market paperbacks, and just kind of typical in every way. What can I say about this one? Not much, unfortunately.
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