- Taschenbuch: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc; Auflage: New edition (August 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 078670442X
- ISBN-13: 978-0786704422
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,8 x 10,2 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.115.847 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"There is a certain glee in my work," says Joe R. Lansdale. "But for me, it heightens the horror." The Drive-In: A B-Movie with Blood and Popcorn and its sequel (The Drive-In 2)--both well known to Lansdale fans--are back in this welcome omnibus edition. The story is about a bunch of affectionately described characters in small-town Texas who go to a horror-movie marathon at the local drive-in. While they're watching The Toolbox Murders, a bright red meteor with a toothy smile swoops down and traps them in the drive-in for all time. Then the fun begins: endless re-runs of the same movies and fights over concession food, followed by anarchy, religion, cannibalism, bodily transformation, crucifixion, mad bikers, and a supernatural Popcorn King. It's not just silly, though; it's social commentary. The lesser (but equally surreal) sequel further explores the end-of-the-world scenario. As Lansdale himself says, "The Drive-In is quirky as hell. It's kind of a cult book, and it's not for everybody." The Drive-In was nominated for a 1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
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Imagine a jam-packed drive-in on a Saturday night. You're kicking back in your car with the popcorn and enjoying a good old-fashioned scary monster movie when, suddenly, the drive-in itself becomes the movie, with all its attendant thrills. And dangers. A hard-hitting combination of vivid imagery, camaraderie and terror, The Drive-In is a double feature Lansdale fans will not want to leave.
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This book is flat-out hilarious! One day Jack and his friends are typical boys on the verge of adulthood, the next they are caught in a nightmarish, other world created when a comet near-misses the drive in where they are enjoying an all night horror show. Stuck in the dark world of the drive in, watching only violent bloody horror movies over and over, eating only concession-stand food, Jack narrates a world that is terrifying but not without its humor. And that's just part one of this incredible tale. It continues with our intrepid heroes getting out of the drive-in to explore the next evolution of their new world. (a world in which a baby dinosaur is automatically named Toothy before it gobbles down an unburied corpse) It would take me too long to describe the numerous quirky, scary and surreal characters and happenings in this omnibus. I was glued to this book until I finished it. It's hilarious, it's surreal, it's chilling, and I kept shaking my head saying "no way!" before I plunged right into the next chapter.
Lansdale is one of the few authors who can take grisly events and plant a sarcastic, hilarious slant to them. And succeed! I laughed out loud throughout while also cringing from some of the word pictures Lansdale creates here. Make no mistake, this is horror at its best. But it's also a witty look at what happens to us when we lose the most basic of worldly trappings. Reading Lansdale is always like stepping into a roller-coaster world, and any of his books are more than worth your time.
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I give this book four stars. THE DRIVE IN would get five stars. THE DRIVE IN 2 would get three. As with many sequels, the second one didn't kick as well for me. But the first one was terrific and inventive and twisted and funny and cool. Think of this like a nice double feature. If it were GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS 2, you'd love the first movie and you'd enjoy the second. Same thing holds true with this double feature. But see, you get both for one price, so you actually get an awesome deal (kinda like you snuck in a guest in the trunk--just don't let the popcorn king find out!).
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Joe R. Lansdale is true pulp fiction: fast, cheap and out of control. Known mostly for hard-bitten, outrageous crime novels featuring Hap and Leonard, and a bunch of extraordinarily grim, nasty, bleak horror stories, Lansdale spent most of the late 80s/early 90s in genre obscurity. Writers with a higher profile but less raw talent (Barry Gifford, Elmore Leonard, Dean Koontz) left him in the dust. With "Mucho Mojo" he finally got what he deserved, and NOW "The Drive-In" novels are back in print, hallelujah, the Good Lord be praised! This is cheesy schlock in the best sense--a mind-boggling Texan SF misadventure featuring the Popcorn King, an all night horrormovie marathon, creatures from outer space, mechanical dinosaurs, the end of the world and naked boobies. Lansdale does it all here. Quirky, off-beat and strange don't do it justice. Just buy it, and discover what a unique, comic, horrifying and flat-out entertaining writer Joe Lansdale is!
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"The Twilight Zone" in Texas
Imagine an episode of "The Twilight Zone", only it's written, directed, and hosted by Joe Bob Briggs instead of Rod Serling. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Februar 2000 von brianmckay
Un-touchable
About 9 years ago I was in jail, and I came across a copy of The Drive In....ever since it has been my favorite book. I could not find a copy anywhere until now.... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Juni 1999 von vonnegut15@hotmail.com
The Drive-In will drive you into a fantastic high!
Yes, boys and girls of all ages, listen up! This novel is the long-awaited expansion of his short story treatment of what happens when a weird meteor, of the reanimator kind, hits... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. März 1998 von mvarela@snet.net
Finally, back in circullation!
Ten years out of print has been way too long for this gem to be hidden away from the reader (I had to hunt three years to find a thrashed used copy). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Dezember 1997 von jmorosel@webtv.net
Damn good.
Without the Drive-In books I would never have discovered
Joe Lansdale. Some of the strangest, most bizarre, most
horrific, and most fun fiction I have ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Joe Lansdale. Some of the strangest, most bizarre, most
horrific, and most fun fiction I have ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
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