Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard

Joe R. Lansdale is a prolific and accomplished author, as is revealed by the biographical sketch on his website. He has won the Edgar Award and many other awards, as well. His work has already been reviewed by ECD in this blog, who reviewed four of his books in the Hap and Leonard series. These two friends live in West Texas and they solve crimes. ECD reviewed the novels quite favorably. In his most recent work, Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard, I had a very different reaction. The book has a dialogue driven story, but I found the dialogue to be too juvenile, and the crazy plot just did not catch my interest. I abandoned the story before I was halfway through. Obviously, my reaction to Lansdale was vastly different than so many. He has fashioned an impressive career as a writer, and it’s clear that Men Reading Books allows for a variety of opinions about the authors we read. Anyhow, this one does not get my recommendation.