- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ); Auflage: New edition (3. April 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0753816709
- ISBN-13: 978-0753816707
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,2 x 12,8 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (11 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.020.111 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Bill Roberts is not the brightest man in Texas, and neither are the two friends he persuades to rob the fire-cracker seller over the road. He needs the money. Welfare payments have stopped arriving, and his mother's corpse, out in the back bedroom, is beginning to really smell. The heist goes spectacularly wrong, leaving Bill with two dead friends, a face eaten by mosquitoes, and a rabid Texan police officer shouting "Cocksucker!" after every shot fired. When Bill finds refuge in a freakshow, his adventures are just beginning: more murder, a mysterious frozen effigy that exerts a mysterious hold over visitors, sex with scheming midgets...
Joe Lansdale has produced another novel in a long line of Texan badland fictions. He takes a rest in this book from his Hap and Leonard characters, but this has the same sleazy scenarios, the same witty dialogue and effortless writing. These elements tumble out in a riot of politically incorrect scenes. This is high-class American pulp fiction, and not just because Lansdale's other job is as a martial arts expert (although it concentrates the mind). The freakshow's pin-heads and perpetually fighting Siamese twins, the kindly manager Joe Frost and his sexually ambiguous partner Gidget, are expertly realised figures in a mythic and hugely enjoyable landscape. --Roger Luckhurst -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The thing that Bill Roberts misses most about his recently defunct mom is her signature. Social security checksseven of themare piling up, and Bill doesn't see himself as much of a forger. Nor as much of a wage-earner in any conventional sense of the term, which is why a heist of the fireworks stand across the road seems a viable idea. But Bill isn't much of an armed robber either, and the attempted hold-up swiftly becomes a disaster. Bill flees, a step ahead of the East Texas law. For one of the few times in his misbegotten life he gets luckyenough to lose his pursuers in a friendly swamp. Safe though exhausted, he falls asleep, waking to find himself among outtakes from The Origin of Species. Actually, he's in the midst of a low-rent traveling freak show, owned and operated by warmhearted John Frost, who doesn't deserve what is soon to happen to himhaving to do with his marriage to a ruthless, conniving bimbo, her moral sense as underdeveloped as her bosom isn't. Frost, kindness itself to his misfit collection (the dogman, the bearded lady, the pumpkin head, and the Siamese twins among others), is good to Bill, too, taking him in and giving him a job. In gratitude, Bill allows himself to be seduced by the concupiscent Mrs. Frost. Eventually, he joins her in the kind of conspiracy dear to the hearts of noirists late and soon, and if you know your James M. Cain at all, you'll guess how badly it turns out. Lansdale shelves his funny sleuths Hap and Leonard (Rumble Tumble, 1998, etc.) for the sake of this depressing slog through grotesquerie. Lets hope it's just a detour. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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FREEZER BURN shows us Bill Roberts and his 2 friends organizing a little robbery of a fireworks display. Problem is it's across the street from where Bill lives with his deceased mother in the back bedroom. The other problem is the display owner recognizes him and is killed. The next problem is the getaway car crashes, killing one of Bill's friends and the chase through a swamp kills the other friend. Not to mention a cop accidentally kills himself trying to take down Bill. All this and Bill ends up in a freak show carnival. Huh? Trust me, this novel is action packed and filled with allusions to Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot and a host of colorful characters that make this one of Lansdale's best novels in years. Most highest recommendation
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I've grown tired of Lansdale's Hap & Leonard books. So I was happy to see FREEZER BURN appear. At least it isn't Hap & Leonard. But, while I thought that it was fairly well written, it just didn't float my boat. This is the kind of thing Jim Thompson did first, and better, and I wish the author had done something different with this novel. The racist language in the book got to me, and I'm pretty thick-skinned when it comes to frank dialogue. This language just reached the point of saturation for me and seemed to go beyond merely being honest with local slang and backwoods tendencies.
I've been a big fan of Lansdale's since his Horror Show days, so I keep reading everything he publishes that I can find. But this, along with his last Hap & Leonard novel, just didn't make me happy.
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I'm sorry that a lot of folks have not liked this book, but I have to respectfully disagree. I've been reading Joe for twelve years, and to me "Freezer Burn" harkens back to his pre- Hap and Leonard days. Old school Lansdale. (Don't get me wrong--I'm a big fan of the Hap and Leonard books.)
This lean and mean story is Flannery O'Connor trapped in a James M. Cain novel (though I'm not the first person to make the Flannery O'Connor/James M. Cain comparison--I read an interview in which Lansdale says basically the same thing.) The story is sort of an homage to a certain kind of book. If you're not a fan of Charles Willeford or James M. Cain or pre-Scudder Lawrence Block, then you might not catch the literary reference/homage that I think Lansdale is making.
The story is predictable, but that's not the point. This is your standard hapless-loser-with-a-streak-of-bad-luck-is-seduced-and-used-by-a-beautiful-woman-to-kill-her-husband-and-the-whole-thing-goes-bad story. I don't think I just spoiled the story for anyone because the book does not try to hide it's traditional plot structure. There have been a million of these stories.
A previous reviewer here has already pointed this fact out: Lansdale's novels are not about intricate plots with subtle hints and clues and red herrings and twists that keep you guessing all the time. (If you're in need of that, might I suggest Lawrence Block's Scudder novels.) Joe's novels are about the characters, like them or not, and doing new things within traditional pulp-like plot structures.
What makes this book great is the fun that Lansdale has with the traditional form. In that old-school Lansdale way, the characters are over the top ridiculous, often repulsive, sad, and laughable at the same time. Yet, also in that Lansdale way, they are all too human, and real. The situations and settings are classic Lansdale, bringing me back to many stories from "By Bizarre Hands" and the "Drive In" novels.
Finally, some people were displeased because the main character is not a likable guy. It is true, he is not. But this did not bother me. A protaganist, for me, does not have to be likable--just compelling. Look at Charles Willeford's classic, "High Priest of California"--a favorite of mine. The protagonist, Russell Haxby, is a complete a$$hole. But I love that book. (The a$$hole protagonist is a favorite device of Willefords.)
Anyway, this is a long-winded review, but this is a great Lansdale book that has obviously not given all of his fans what they were hoping for, but I love it just the same.
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say it ain't so,joe!
I"m afraid that I have to join the chorus of mostly negative reviews here.I say that reluctantly,because I am a BIG Joe R.Lansdale fan. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Doesnt blow your socks off.
Being a Lansdale fan, I have to say that anyone who likes his previous novels should enjoy his latest offering, but for those people who dont know of him and feel they would like... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Januar 2000 von "poisonpalm"
Racist drivel in the sorry tradition of 'American Psycho'
This sorry book joins 'American Psycho' as one of the worst books ever written. I'm not saying Lansdale shouldn't have written it; I should have known better than to buy it! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Lansdale Doesn't Go For the Championship This Time
I look forward to most of Joe R. Lansdale's work, especially the new novels or collections. But, alas, as it is with all prolific writers (and Lansdale is prolific), sometimes you... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Too Predictable!
If you have seen the movie or have read the book DOUBLE INDEMNITY than this book will leave you high and dry. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Oktober 1999 von Douglas Hahner
Excellent!
Its sort of a James Cain meets Flannery O'Connor, but filtered through Lansdales unique and unmistakable voice. The character of Double Buckwheat was unforgettable...trust me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. September 1999 von "woundedsoul"
Still got that MOJO working
Nobody does it like Joe. Not for the squeamish or faint at heart, but if you want a wild tale full of amazing insights into the darker side of the human condition (coupled with... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Cool Novel That won't leave you chilli
Joe does it again !!!!! You feel like you joined the circus from hell.A Great cast of strange characters.It's a funny journey. I Loved it!!!
Veröffentlicht am 2. September 1999 von Jeffrey Hollington
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