Yo, rachelmanija!

[telophase]

You no longer need to remember to type in the first paragraphs of Joe Lansdale's Bad Chili like you told me you were going to do one day, because thanks to theferrett, I now know that Amazon.com has the first few pages up on their reader.

Warning to people before: potentially highly offensive. You will either be sold on the book or repulsed by it. :D

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an excellent book.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

An excellent book, and an excellent series. :) Bad Chili is not the first one in the series, but it's fine as an intro. And the titles of the books! Savage Season, Mucho Mojo, The Two-Bear Mambo, Rumble Tumble, Captains Outrageous. Ya gotta love 'em.

It makes people gasp in horror when I say that Joe Lansdale writes about the Texas I grew up in - I have family in the area he sets this series in, even - but it's more the attitude and the flavor than the violence. The Texas people think of is more over in West Texas - East Texas is closer to the Deep South environmentally and culturally.

Rick Riordan (Big Red Tequila, The King of Texas, etc.) writes the San Antonio I lived in really well.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I loved it. The entire thing is just like the first few paragraphs. It's great.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe I have spent thirty-one years of my life without this book.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

An oversight that must be remedied, stat!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

It is now on my Christmas list.

...thank God my daughter cannot read yet.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Where is that supposed to be set exactly? The names have been changed, but I have experienced some of the opening paragraphs of that book myself (albiet as neither pisser nor pissee, but rather friend of the pissee).

In summary, sounds like Bryan to me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

East Texas. BCS is too metropolitan and international for it. :D The Longview/Gladewater/Liberty City-ish area, basically. I don't remember if he made up a town for it or not, but I wouldn't be surprised.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Ah. I know that area. I actully mostly grew up in Woden, Etoil, and Whitehouse, which are small "towns" outside Nacogdoches, Lufkin and Tyler respectively. Deep in the Piney Woods.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think Lansdale lives in Nacogdoches. And his character Hap occasionally works in the rose fields.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

I thank you for the reference, then! I'll have to add his works to my list, and see if there's anything familiar in them.

[puppleball.livejournal.com]

Joe is originally from Gladewater (if I remember right). I spent many summers fishing out on Gladewater lake growing up. I believe you are right in that he currently live in Nac. Also, quite a few of the jobs Hap and Leonard hold in the books Joe did before he started making a decent living at writing. The river that's generally mentioned is the Sabine, which runs right through the area. I've spent many days fishing that river too. Some of his books creep me out bad because of that.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised about the jobs - so many first jobs in the area are that sort of thing. Many of my male relatives started out their professional lives by working on oil rigs. :D