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Mucho Mojo Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPhoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Dimensions5.08 x 0.91 x 7.72 inches
- ISBN-100753816695
- ISBN-13978-0753816691
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- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0753816695
- ISBN-13 : 978-0753816691
- Item Weight : 7.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.08 x 0.91 x 7.72 inches
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About the author
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.
Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.
A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror." He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero.
Lansdale is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.
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Customers find the book engaging and well-written. They describe it as a fast-paced thriller with wry humor and an irreverent approach to racism. Readers appreciate the wonderful, smart characters and their back-and-forth interactions.
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Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable to read. They appreciate the well-written plot with suspense and humor. The story is described as a fun thriller from Texas with good humour and drama.
"Hap and Leonard, what more needs to be said? Great story, great characters." Read more
"...This was such a fun book, I laughed loudly several times...." Read more
"...Their story was a good one. Just be prepared for it to unfold at it's own pace." Read more
"...the Hap and Leonard books, Mucho Mojo is a well-written, complex, compelling, and very violent story...." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's pacing. They find it a fast-paced thriller with compelling characters and conflict. The content is neither dramatic nor deep, just entertaining. Readers enjoy the interactions between Hap and Leonard as much as ever. The subject matter is serious but liberally dosed with dark humor.
"...Leonard Pine are back for another melee in "Mucho Mojo", a ripping tale of lurid crime, racial tension, and raunchy sex told in that down-home, easy..." Read more
"...Mucho Mojo is a perfect action, comedy, social justice book that shows what great friends will do for each other." Read more
"...books, Mucho Mojo is a well-written, complex, compelling, and very violent story...." Read more
"...As always, the subject matter is serious, but liberally dosed with dark humor and wry wit...." Read more
Customers find the book has wry humor and an irreverent approach to racism. They describe it as an easy-to-read, raunchy read with good humor and great suspense. The prose is precise and sterile, with no-nonsense language and easy banter from the South. Overall, customers praise the well-written, complex, and compelling story.
"...But unlike Child's precise, sterile and no-nonsense prose, Lansdale's brutality is softened with his southern wisdom - an enlightened but..." Read more
"...Mucho Mojo is a perfect action, comedy, social justice book that shows what great friends will do for each other." Read more
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Customers enjoy the characters. They find the back-and-forth between the main characters hilarious and thought-provoking. The writing style is described as bloody and clever.
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"...humor, fast action with a decidedly bloody edge, and smart characters wrapped up in writing that you know Lansdale had to bust his tail to make it..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2024Hap and Leonard, what more needs to be said? Great story, great characters.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2009Following their 1990 debut in "Savage Season", Joe Lansdale's lovable butt-kicking east-Texan's Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are back for another melee in "Mucho Mojo", a ripping tale of lurid crime, racial tension, and raunchy sex told in that down-home, easy banter of the south that Joe Lansdale does so well. Leonard's uncle Chester has died, and while estranged, he played an important role model in Leonard's youth. So when asked to travel back to LaBorde, Texas, for the funeral and help in settling Chester's affairs, Hap can't hardly refuse to abandon his near-slave labor in the rose fields and oblige. But while cleaning up uncle Chester's wreck of a house, the boys uncover a small skeleton locked in a trunk beneath the floor boards, casting a despicable pall of pedophilia and murder over the good uncle's memory and reputation.
Despite what seems to be overwhelming evidence, Leonard can't believe his judgment of character could be so far off, and with the intermittent and reluctant help of the local PD, Hap and Leonard see if they can unwind a story that clear uncle Chet - or at least confirm his guilt. Along the way, Leonard falls hard in a torrid love affair with a young black attorney, while both boys match wits (some) and trade punches (mostly) with the local drug gang holed up in the crack house next door.
With Lansdale, especially when Hap and Leonard are featured, you can count on enough action and martial violence to have Lee Child's Jack Reacher straining to keep up. Think of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheau with a sense of humor and half the baggage - that's Hap Collins. But unlike Child's precise, sterile and no-nonsense prose, Lansdale's brutality is softened with his southern wisdom - an enlightened but believable no less charming good old boy who mixes enough morality and intelligence in his mayhem to make this more than a simple mystery. Never one to shy away from controversy, Lansdale wades into the weighty topics of child pornography and drug abuse with more standard murder and corruption, while taking a glancing shot at religion, with the politics of race and homosexuality as much a part of Lansdale's stories as east Texas' humidity.
So maybe the wily Lansdale shows his cards a bit too early before a satisfying if predictable climax, Hap's love interests do little for a story that stands strong without them, and perhaps the breakneck pace slows for a nap or two along the way. But if you like smart dialog laced in dark humor, fast action with a decidedly bloody edge, and smart characters wrapped up in writing that you know Lansdale had to bust his tail to make it look this easy - this is crime fiction not to be missed - a series and an author well deserving their "American classic" accolades.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2021Leonard’s uncle as passed on and left his house and belongings to Leonard. The house happen to be located next to a crack house and the two friends make some enemies right out of the gates. Then they find the kiddie porn and something else a bit more disturbing in Leonard’s new house. The boys have some investigating to do in order to clear Uncle Chester’s name. Yes, the guy with child pornography in his house was named Chester. In case you weren’t aware, Leonard is a colored openly gay man, and Hap is a while redneck and they are the best of friends.
This was such a fun book, I laughed loudly several times. Mucho Mojo is a perfect action, comedy, social justice book that shows what great friends will do for each other.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2022I really like Hap and Leonard. I like the fact that they're not just friends, but honest friends. When they talk, and aren't joking with each other, they speak their minds. The trust is there.
What's also there is Leonard's pain at his estranged uncle's death. The man who raised him didn't approve of him, and there's nothing so painful as a relationship that was never fixed. When Leonard finds some dark hints of what his uncle was into, he swears to Hap that it's not like it looks.
The story is follows a dark, ugly path, but Hap and Leonard aren't having it. Their story was a good one.
Just be prepared for it to unfold at it's own pace.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2013Mucho Mojo (first published in 1994), is the second Hap Collins and Leonard Pine book by Joe Lansdale. Mucho Mojo, according to one of the characters in this book means "Much bad magic." The book does not deal with black magic or any kind of magic. However, there is plenty of bad magic in the form of drug dealers and child murderers in this book. Our two East Texas good-ole (and very tough) redneck vigilantes/amateur detectives, Hap and Leonard, get involved when Leonard inherits a broken down house from his deceased Uncle Chester. The house turns out to be next door to some drug dealers, whom Hap and Leonard eventually deal with. They also discover something in Uncle Chester's house that leads them into conflict with a child murderer and the police. Mucho Mojo is the fourth Hap and Leonard book that I have read, and they are great characters. Although they are rugged, lacking formal education (but well versed by a street education), and extremely tough; they are also morally and ethically strong defenders of weak, feeble, poor, or otherwise vulnerable people who are being exploited, threatened, abused, or terrorized by criminals. Hap and Leonard both feel fear, but they do not allow it deter their actions when they believe they are doing what needs to be done. They also are willing to inflict pain, and even to kill, when they determine it is clearly the right thing to do. Like all the Hap and Leonard books, Mucho Mojo is a well-written, complex, compelling, and very violent story. I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend it highly for anyone who is not averse to strong vulgar dialogue and graphic violence.
Top reviews from other countries
- Mathieu ComarmondReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
I'm seriously hooked on this series. I love the humour, writing and how well characters are built. Hap and Leonard are amazing
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in Canada on July 15, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Entertaining read
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MIYOReviewed in Japan on September 15, 2017
4.0 out of 5 stars ゲイの黒人とプアホワイトの名コンビ
ネットフィリックスのドラマを見て、本書を再読
貧乏白人のハップと黒人でゲイのレナードが難事件を解決していくシリーズの第一弾
ハップもレナードも世間に対してすごくシニカルで社会正義なんてまったく信じていない
しかしそれでも、麻薬ディーラーを見れば叩きのめすし、子供の誘拐事件に首を突っ込んでしまう
人生に疲れてはいても、弱者が虐げられていれば黙ってはいられないのだ
下品な二人の丁々発止のかけあいが面白い
- Giuseppe N. LacagninaReviewed in Italy on July 18, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars A very nice read
I had already read this book, and bought it as a present. It is one of my favourite. An unforgettable, unique book. Joe Lansdale at his best!
- mscentrReviewed in Italy on October 9, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars great action
Great action, unforgettable characters, sense of humour: a perfect hard-boiled, a Lansdale at his best
I could not be more satisfied