Read this as an ARC way back when it came out. Liked it well enough but not the author's best effort.My favorite book by Lansdale is The Bottoms, it won the Edgar and rightfully so, I highly recommend. I put The Bottoms up there with Parker's California Girl and Ordinary Grace by Kruger. All three excellent reads.David Putnam author of the Bruno Johnson series.

The always reliable Hap and Leonard. This one's probably the funniest of the bunch, or close to it, so far. Rootin' tootin' shootin' pulpy mayhem with that ever-present human side. Quality stuff.

I think this series might be better as an audiobook; they are well done, and the southern accent of the narrator really makes it funnier (although I haven't actually compared to print). As usual, the story is not the best part to me, although it's usually interesting. But the characters and the dialog is what keeps me reading these books. In this story, Hap's current romantic interest has a daughter who is a prostitute, but in over her head so her mother decides to bring her home. Unfortunately,...

5 solid stars.Maybe it's true and this isn't the best of the series, but DAMN! What can I say? I love Hap and Leonard and the author's superb writing, add to that cracking dialogues, the most loyal of friendships, and a raw story, and I'm all for it.

If you're already a fan of Joe Lansdale's work, or of his series about Hap & Leonard, buy this book. It has most of the elements I first fell in love with about Mr. Lansdale's writing: garish larger-than-life characters and scenes that could take place on the floor of hell, a countrified turn of phrase dripping raw acid, and a viciously sarcastic wit like Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain's bastard love child overdosed on serious bad drugs. "Rumble Tumble" has those in spades.If you're looking to ge...

Joe R. Lansdale is a superb writer with a truly wicked sense of humor. He has a style reminiscent of Robert B. Parker, arguably the greatest detective novelist of all time. Good stuff.

another awesome Hap and Leonard book! this one reminded me of Sam Peckinpah's THE WILD BUNCH, when William Holden says the line "Lets go" for the last time and he heads out with Ernest Borgnine, Warrren Oates and Ben Johnson to wipe out an entire mexican army with certain death as the only outcome. yeah, it was like that. Lansdale pulls it off.....again

I didn't like this one as much, and I think I know why: the dynamic of the "standard Hap & Leonard" plot found in the previous books was changed in this one. Here, instead of trouble finding them, they go looking for it. While this was still an entertaining read, and typically humorous and very well-written, there was an underlying ferocity here, especially with Hap, to the point that he was nearly out of character in many parts of the book. Okay, on to the next one!

Another good entry in the Hap & Leonard series by Lansdale. These novels are really over-the-top, full of off-color humor and violence. This one follows BAD CHILI which I read a few weeks ago. In Chili, Hap hooks up with his latest girlfriend, Brett. Brett has a daughter, Tilly, who is entangled in prostitution and wants to get out. She has been sent to a very bad location amidst a group of biker gang members in Mexico. Hap agrees to try to rescue her and of course Leonard is up for the action.

Hap and Leonard are back in their fifth adventure. The boys aren't getting any younger. And the last few years have put a lot of extra miles on them. But when word comes, via a red-headed midget and a rather dull hulk, that Brett's daughter wants out of the prostitution business Hap isn't going to let his lady-love go it alone. And Leonard certainly isn't going to let Hap go into trouble without having his back. The story leads from east Texas, to a brothel in Oklahoma, to a "pleasure ranch" acr...

The fifth adventure of the dysfunctional duo Hap Collins and Leonard Pine is a raucous roadtrip with a bombed out prostitute, a worried mother, and a dwarf named Red. The Subterranean Press edition of Rumble Tumble was bound in full cloth, with a bound-in satin ribbon page marker, and autograph page art by Mark A. Nelson. It preceded the Mysterious Press edition by two months, with a text that varied slightly from that of the trade.Dustjacket art and design by Gail Cross. This is copy 118 of 400...

Leonard needed a pet armadillo named Bob. Hap needed one more thing to brood about, just don't make it Steak Ranchero. And with that, our intrepid heroes complete one more mission, making and breaking a few vows along the way, killing some and saving others. Bret goes from main squeeze into near family territory as Hap first, then Leonard, agree to help her get her daughter out of prostitution in the Tulsa area. Fomenting this adventure are Wilbur, a big dumb heavy, and Red, a midget (his prefer...

This book features the pistol whipping of a little person, the rescue of an armadillo from a gun dealer, a fight in a whore house, the amputation of a foot via shotgun, redneck pimps, arguments caused by dirty underwear, prairie dogs being sucked out of their holes by a glorified vacuum cleaner and a really good steak ranchero.Yep. It’s another Joe Lansdale novel.Hap’s girlfriend Brett is contacted by a couple of murderous pimps from Oklahoma who claim that her daughter, a prostitute, is in trou...

Hap and Leonard, the two unlikeliest pair of best buds I’ve ever met in fiction, are back for another violent adventure filled with unexpected twists, lots of blood and gushy gore and enough offensive jokes to offend just about everyone. But that’s why we love ‘em.Hap’s contemplating getting serious with his girl Brett but is living with Leonard and getting on his last nerve. But before the two can hurt each other, a midget named Red shows up and informs them he was the former pimp of Brett’s gr...

Entertaining as ever, but while it's deep in character, it's thin on story, and I do have to say the ending is a little mean and unforgiving.

Of course, any woman with a life history that matches Hap's has baggage of a troubling and volatile kinds--Brett's daughter is (maybe voluntarily, maybe not) with a motorcycle gang in Mexico, necessitating a trip to get her, involving Leonard and his guns (and the accidental acquisition of a pet armadillo), a vile conman Little Person, that guy's brother the ex-motorcycle gang member turned preacher, a machine that vacuums prairie dogs out of the ground, a fired postal service pilot and an incur...

*3.5 Stars*After a twister blew away his house, Hap is living on Leonard's couch, working as a bouncer, thinking about moving in with his girlfriend Brett, and balls-deep in his mid-life crisis. But when Brett asks for help rescuing her estranged daughter who's turned to whoring and seems to be in danger with the wrong crowd, Hap puts on his white knight helmet, and the three head to the town of Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma, and equally dangerous Mexican border towns to track her down. “Size and...

This fifth installment of the Hap and Leonard novels is as rude, crude, and funny as the others. As Lansdale explores the seamier side of America, notably East Texas with a detour to Oklahoma, his new topics include white slavery, Mexican motorcycle gangs, and midget abuse....LOTS of midget abuse. A problem tends to creep into this series. You start wondering how many more deadly situations, dark forbidding topics and unfunny subjects can the author continue to make funny. Yet, all the darkness

When someone brings Brett news of her daughter wanting out of the prostitution business, Hap & Leonard, with Brett in tow, go to Hootie Hoot Oklahoma to find her. But does Tillie want to be found? My Hap and Leonard re-read continues with the fifth volume, Rumble Tumble. The Hap and Leonard tradition of kicking ass and cracking wise continues, this time featuring pistol-whipping, steroided up bodyguards, hookers, bikers, drug dealers, and one red haired little person.Rumble Tumble isn't my favor...

Hap's new flame, Brett finds out her daughter, Tillie, is in trouble. She is a sex worker and the rumor is that her pimp or organization, or whatever is sending her to a survivalist cult of Nazis. Obviously Hap & Leonard must get in over the heads to help her, otherwise--would this even be a Hap & Leonard novel? That ol' White Knight syndrome. Along the way, are plenty of fart jokes and sex romps.This is the fifth book in the series and the third time a little person is a major character in one