I believe I might have the honor of being the only living human being on this planet that doesn't get the sense of humor in these books. This is my second try, and I just don't see anything comical or entertaining about this couple. Since I'm sure I am in the minority, I will leave Hap and Leonard to those that are members of their fan club and go on to something else.

Still my favorite Hap And Leonard book!

These keep getting better and better, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find out John Connolly is a fan of this series. A lot of similarities between Hap and Leonard and the Charlie Parker books.

“When I say act like a man," Leonard said, "I mean act honorably and with courage. Macho has been turned into a bad word by turds who act like beasts, not men.”Another step up in the quality of entertainment provided by Joe Lansdale's Hap & Leonard books as he juggles wisecracking, climbing up on his soapbox, brutality, psychological surveys and an interesting mystery with great dexterity. Collins & Pine are on fire throughout this one, hardly stopping to recover from threats and beatings before...

I thought this one started perilously slow, with Lansdale on his soap-box a lot, and if I hadn't already grown attached to Hap and Leonard from the previous two books I might have been tempted to set this one aside, or at least skip ahead until something started happening. And then . . . holy crap, all the darkness in this world just gets shoveled onto these errant knights. Survival does not seem possible, yet they do. The aftermath, where Lansdale portrays the psychological damage - their grail...

Another great adventure with my buddies Hap Collins and Leonard Pine! Leonard has a new boyfriend but is still surly, having just burnt down the neighborhood crack house for the third Christmas Eve in a row. But to stay out of jail this time, Leonard and Hap agree to help their friend Marvin locate his girlfriend Florida Grange, who happens to be Leonard's old lawyer and Hap's former sweet thang. The stakes are pretty high though this go round because Florida, an attractive black woman, was last...

This is the third book in the Hap and Leonard series, and the strongest in both story and structure, so far. The characters really come into their own here, functioning like living entities that exist outside of the novel’s pages, instead of being merely plot-and-ideology-delivery machines (although what is a character besides that, really?) It’s a great, gory, occasionally funny, and often action-packed southern noir. I really enjoyed reading this. (Be forewarned: the n-word drops about a 100x

"When I got over to Leonard's Christmas Eve night, he had the Kentucky Headhunters turned way up over at his place, and they were singing "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," and Leonard, in a kind of Christmas celebration, was once again setting fire to the house next door."The Two-Bear Mambo (named from a nature program where two bears get it on) is the third book in the long-running Hap and Leonard series. I am seriously loving these two characters so goddamn much! Their banter is ::chef's kiss::Th...

In this third Hap and Leonard book, Joe R Lansdale takes the gloves off. Harrowing. And real. And a reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same. One of those books where even the funny parts hurt some.

When Hap goes to spend Christmas Eve with his friend Leonard, he finds that Leonard’s idea of a Yule log is burning down the neighborhood crack house. Since this is the third time Leonard has torched it, the cops are a little miffed even though he always pulls the drug dealers out of the fire. Police lieutenant Hanson offers to help get Leonard off the hook for his pyromania if the guys will look for his girlfriend, Florida, who has gone missing while poking around the story of the relative of a...

This is how brilliant Joe Lansdale is. Twenty pages in this novel, I was super excited because it started at a point Hap & Leonard had never been before. A hundred pages in, I was about to give up because it shaped up to be a Hap & Leonard vs evil novel. Then it took another, darker turner and finally headed in a darker direction than I've ever seen in a Joe Lansdale novel before. In THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO, Hap & Leonard have to survive before even thinking about saving the day. These two white knig...

It's difficult not to be enamored with Joe R. Lansdale's prose. He has such a wonderfully engaging style.Hap and Leonard are two very different people, but who happen to be lifelong friends. When they are asked to go in search of a missing woman with whom they have history, they feel obliged to find her. But their travels lead them to the hate-fueled, Klansmen infested streets of Grovetown. On any given day, stopping off here would seem a really bad idea; Leonard is gay, he is black, and he has

Hap & Leonard book 3, loved this. Lansdale to me is a master story teller. He sucked me right into this with an unlikely duo on an East Texas adventure into the vilest evil racist town to ever exist. If easily offended by bigotry or racism stay far away from this book. Hap & Leonard run into the true evils of human nature…..how do they survive? Read and find out!

Another sterling novel from Lansdale, opening with a burning crackhouse and closing with a flood of Biblical proportions. I have to say that there was a lot less light-hearted “fun” to be had in this one, due to the subject matter and the way things stand at the end of the book. There’s still plenty of funny banter and one-liners, but things are a lot darker and severe in this one. The story concerns Hap and Leonard traveling to the “town that time forgot” of Grovestown, a progressive’s nightmar...

Hap's ex-girlfirend Florida disappears while investigating the murder of blues musician's son. Hap and Leonard, on behalf of Marvin Hanson, go to Grovetown, a racist hive of scum and villainy, to investigate. Will they find Florida and bring her back?2016 Reread:My quest to reread all of the Hap and Leonard books before the TV series drops so I can lord it over everyone else continues. In this, the third Hap and Leonard book, the boys go looking for Florida, Hap's ex and the current girlfriend o...

Our intrepid misanthrope heroes are asked by local cop Hanson to travel to mostly racist Grovetown, TX. Job - to look into the whereabouts of Florida, lawyer and lover of both Hap and the cop. She's researching a story about a black man killed while in police custody.I find myself alternately shaking my head in their antics, then chuckling over the dialogue and action.Hap talking to Chief of Police Cantuck: "We're looking for a friend of ours," I said, "and we thought you might know something ab...

They just keep getting better! I finished this yesterday and was going to start 4 today but I had some trouble with audible and I can't actually read at work anymore so I guess I'm just taking a break and listening to some music.

Book three, The Two-Bear Mambo in the Hap & Leonard series, does not fuck around. This rough & tumble, country noir is filled to the brim with crude sexual innuendos, obscene racism, and Hap & Leonard once again, fighting their demons in the devil’s lair.And it’s brilliant.The evolution of this series is actually blowing my mind. Savage Season works well as an introduction because it bends the reader’s affections toward the duo. It’s impossible not to fall in love with these guys. The second boo...

I found this one hair raising and sinister- the worst trouble Hap and Leonard have been in so far- mixing in with really bad people but also finding the odd nugget of goodness. Hap and Leonard are the best bromance in town.

Third book in the Hap and Leonard series is on an even par with book 2 for me. I love that Florida Grange, who was introduced in book 2, is incorporated into the mystery in this one. She's beautiful, Leonard's lawyer, and an ex-girlfriend of Hap's. Not only that, but she is also the current girlfriend of Marvin, a friend of theirs who is also a detective. So when she goes missing they are on it and they are determined to find her, come hell or high water!What I didn't like is how racist the peop...