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The Drive-In #2
The Drive-in 2
The alien invasion of a drive-in movie theatre in Texas leads to an outrageous space-bound adventure that is destined to get stranger and more violent all the time
179 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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Joe R. Lansdale
818 books3,891 followersChampion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty 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 more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He 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. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep 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," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.
He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and 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.
He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and 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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March 31, 2016
You gotta admire Joe Lansdale’s gumption. If you write one short crazy-ass horror novel about an entire Texas drive-in filled with people being trapped in the limbo of an endless night that devolves into a frenzy of violence and cannibalism that pales in comparison to the horrors unleashed in it by the supernatural Popcorn King, then most writers might put their pencils down and not try to follow it up. So how do you top that madness? Easy. Add in some dinosaurs!
Three survivors of the first story leave the ruins of the drive-in only to find that the highway now leads through a prehistoric wilderness complete with the occasional T. Rex sighting. After some traveling and recuperating they eventually run across a woman named Grace who also lived through the terror of the never ending movie marathon but met something even worse afterwards in the guise of a deranged guy whose head has been turned into a television and calls himself Popalong Cassiday.*
* It'd been a long while since I read this, and I'd completely forgotten about Popalong Cassiday. Now I'm wondering if Brian K. Vaughan might have drawn inspiration from this for his robots with televisions for heads in Saga.
Grace is determined to return to the drive-in and stop him, and the guys agree because one of them has the hots for her and real friends don’t let a buddy go alone to confront a psychopathic guy with a TV for a head while trapped in an episode of Land of the Lost. I’m pretty sure that’s in the Guy Code somewhere, or if it’s not, it should be. Anyhow, hilarity ensues.
Like the first Drive-In this bizarre set-up sounds like it might be something meant to be comedy-horror, and there are some good laughs since Lansdale can create dialogue and descriptions to make the most awful of people, events, and circumstances funny. However, despite the goofy premises both books have a seriously dark streak of nihilism and misanthropy. The ending is a bit anti-climatic by design with Lansdale deliberately trying to stand a lot of the tropes of TV and movies on their heads. There’s a real anger and ugliness lurking just below the surface of these books, and that makes them interesting.
However, I liked this one slightly less than the first one because there the story begins with the normality of a bunch of people going to the movies and then descends into chaos. Here, the story starts off as crazy town banana pants, and then tries to take that up a notch. Once you’ve shown that people are shit who will cheerfully shed the thin veneer of civilization in the midst of a bizarro meat grinder then it’s really hard to make that any worse although Lansdale gives it a mighty effort.
It’s still a short and disturbing horror novel that will make you laugh at inappropriate times, and I’m curious to get to the third book to see how it gets wrapped up.
Three survivors of the first story leave the ruins of the drive-in only to find that the highway now leads through a prehistoric wilderness complete with the occasional T. Rex sighting. After some traveling and recuperating they eventually run across a woman named Grace who also lived through the terror of the never ending movie marathon but met something even worse afterwards in the guise of a deranged guy whose head has been turned into a television and calls himself Popalong Cassiday.*
* It'd been a long while since I read this, and I'd completely forgotten about Popalong Cassiday. Now I'm wondering if Brian K. Vaughan might have drawn inspiration from this for his robots with televisions for heads in Saga.
Grace is determined to return to the drive-in and stop him, and the guys agree because one of them has the hots for her and real friends don’t let a buddy go alone to confront a psychopathic guy with a TV for a head while trapped in an episode of Land of the Lost. I’m pretty sure that’s in the Guy Code somewhere, or if it’s not, it should be. Anyhow, hilarity ensues.
Like the first Drive-In this bizarre set-up sounds like it might be something meant to be comedy-horror, and there are some good laughs since Lansdale can create dialogue and descriptions to make the most awful of people, events, and circumstances funny. However, despite the goofy premises both books have a seriously dark streak of nihilism and misanthropy. The ending is a bit anti-climatic by design with Lansdale deliberately trying to stand a lot of the tropes of TV and movies on their heads. There’s a real anger and ugliness lurking just below the surface of these books, and that makes them interesting.
However, I liked this one slightly less than the first one because there the story begins with the normality of a bunch of people going to the movies and then descends into chaos. Here, the story starts off as crazy town banana pants, and then tries to take that up a notch. Once you’ve shown that people are shit who will cheerfully shed the thin veneer of civilization in the midst of a bizarro meat grinder then it’s really hard to make that any worse although Lansdale gives it a mighty effort.
It’s still a short and disturbing horror novel that will make you laugh at inappropriate times, and I’m curious to get to the third book to see how it gets wrapped up.
July 15, 2016
Jack, Bob, and Crier leave the Orbit Drive-In behind for the open road, encountering dinosaurs, slithering strips of film, and a martial artist named Grace. Will they find the end of the road before Popalong Cassidy finds them?
As you might be able to tell from the synopsis, the second Drive-In book is stranger than a fever dream. While in recovery from their crucifixion, Bob and Jack, with Crier, venture out into the wasteland the Earth became while they were trapped in The Orbit. A woman named Grace shows up and suddenly Jack decides they're heroes. As a man who has gone titty-blind (as Lansdale calls it) on occasion, it wasn't hard to relate to the guys in this one.
As with the last book, I read this book shortly after the dawn of time so I remembered very little about it. Much like the first book, it's a fun book full of gore, cursing, cannibals, and funny dialogue. The Lansdale wit, while still in its adolescence, was present in droves.
It's a pretty slim tale but a lot of interesting and often times hilarious shit happens. I liked it a little less than the previous one, though. It didn't feel like a retread in any way, unlike most sequels. Popalong Cassidy had big shoes to fill after the Popcorn King and left the shoes empty enough to leave blisters. Still, the aftermath was quite bizarre and I'll be taking my third trip to the Drive-In shortly. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
As you might be able to tell from the synopsis, the second Drive-In book is stranger than a fever dream. While in recovery from their crucifixion, Bob and Jack, with Crier, venture out into the wasteland the Earth became while they were trapped in The Orbit. A woman named Grace shows up and suddenly Jack decides they're heroes. As a man who has gone titty-blind (as Lansdale calls it) on occasion, it wasn't hard to relate to the guys in this one.
As with the last book, I read this book shortly after the dawn of time so I remembered very little about it. Much like the first book, it's a fun book full of gore, cursing, cannibals, and funny dialogue. The Lansdale wit, while still in its adolescence, was present in droves.
It's a pretty slim tale but a lot of interesting and often times hilarious shit happens. I liked it a little less than the previous one, though. It didn't feel like a retread in any way, unlike most sequels. Popalong Cassidy had big shoes to fill after the Popcorn King and left the shoes empty enough to leave blisters. Still, the aftermath was quite bizarre and I'll be taking my third trip to the Drive-In shortly. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
March 8, 2021
If you've read THE DRIVE-IN, then you're already familiar with the Popcorn King. In this book, we meet Pop-A-Long Cassidy, the man with a TV for a head. What's not to like?!
I think it's safe to say that if you liked the original story, you'll like this one too. It's full of the same snarky humor and dire situations. I had a total blast listening, as Matt Godfrey's narration is always great and to me, it sounded like he had a great time voicing this book.
Madness, comets, dinosaurs, creatures of all shapes and sizes, THE DRIVE-IN 2: NOT JUST ONE OF THEM SEQUELS is a crazy/fun/entertaining ride!
*I bought this audio from Audible with my hard earned cash.*
I think it's safe to say that if you liked the original story, you'll like this one too. It's full of the same snarky humor and dire situations. I had a total blast listening, as Matt Godfrey's narration is always great and to me, it sounded like he had a great time voicing this book.
Madness, comets, dinosaurs, creatures of all shapes and sizes, THE DRIVE-IN 2: NOT JUST ONE OF THEM SEQUELS is a crazy/fun/entertaining ride!
*I bought this audio from Audible with my hard earned cash.*
April 13, 2014
You know, I'm pretty sure I liked this one a smidgen more than the first one. The scope expanded and the dark humor got even darker and funnier. I was somewhat reluctant to pick this one up right away because the end of the first book seemed to hint that this one might be a The Lost World pastiche. I don't dislike dinosaurs, but they really aren't a selling point for me. Now, there are dinosaurs in The Drive-In 2, but in no way are they the focus. They're not even a huge threat and kind of keep their distance for the most part. It's almost as if Lansdale changed his mind about the second book featuring dinosaurs between the writing of book 1 and book 2, which is fine by me. I'd certainly rather have another great villain like Popalong Cassidy any day.
Oh, and there is some great imagery in this book and a few scenes that really had me laughing out loud (not just the usual quick exhalation through the nostrils kind of thing). Lansdale's got great comic timing.
I'll be picking up The Drive-In 3 in the near future.
Oh, and there is some great imagery in this book and a few scenes that really had me laughing out loud (not just the usual quick exhalation through the nostrils kind of thing). Lansdale's got great comic timing.
I'll be picking up The Drive-In 3 in the near future.
July 8, 2018
While I think I prefer the maddening claustrophobia of the first Drive-In, this is “not just one of them sequels” — The Drive-In 2 is a horrifying nightmare in its own right, complete with desperate villains and encouraged public suicides and all the b-movie gore a reader could want.
It was nice seeing the “world” beyond the Orbit, strange and trippy as it was. Lansdale’s narrative breaks rules (there is no satisfying conclusion, the climax is almost non-existent, the heroes aren’t really heroes, and he introduces characters only to kill them soon after) and the story is all the better for it: the result is an off-kilter, unsettling, grimey look at a post-apocalyptic world. Totally unlike anything I’ve ever read.
Horror doesn’t get better than this.
It was nice seeing the “world” beyond the Orbit, strange and trippy as it was. Lansdale’s narrative breaks rules (there is no satisfying conclusion, the climax is almost non-existent, the heroes aren’t really heroes, and he introduces characters only to kill them soon after) and the story is all the better for it: the result is an off-kilter, unsettling, grimey look at a post-apocalyptic world. Totally unlike anything I’ve ever read.
Horror doesn’t get better than this.
May 1, 2021
The sequel, fittingly titled The Drive-In 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels and released a year later in 1989, unfortunately does not live up to its predecessor. Here Lansdale spends much of the time recounting the events of the first novel through the perspective of other characters. These backstories are rambling affairs which drag on entirely too long and pale in comparison to the raw immediacy of the original.
Nor do the new characters and villains do justice to the unique cast crafted in book one. Grace is less dimensional than the teenage wet dream to which she clearly owes her origins, while Popalong Cassidy is a catch-all antihero conceived on LSD and put to print on ritalin. And contrary to the book's cover, dinosaurs do not number among the hazards in this phantasmal caper. (I wouldn't be surprised if Lansdale edited out the reptilian bits after it was too late to change the cover art.)
Moreover, the writing isn't nearly as solid, the narrative as focused, the sequences as memorably scripted, or the comedy as chuckle-inducing. Whereas the first book's laughs and vulgarity were well-placed and right on pitch, the raunchiness of the sequel is spread like chipped paint, awash in overspent shock value and bargain-bin clichés. Lansdale either ran out of steam on this one or all but phoned it in. The tension just isn't there, and the ride isn't as fun.
The idea of society-as-cinema felt fresh and thrilling in Lansdale's first outing but fails to breathe enough new life in the second take to keep me coming back for more. While it's even higher on the wonkiness scale than the original, its disordered pastiche of influences and repetitive nature ultimately terminate in forgettable schlock—like a B-movie you really didn't need to see.
Note: This review is republished from my official website.
Nor do the new characters and villains do justice to the unique cast crafted in book one. Grace is less dimensional than the teenage wet dream to which she clearly owes her origins, while Popalong Cassidy is a catch-all antihero conceived on LSD and put to print on ritalin. And contrary to the book's cover, dinosaurs do not number among the hazards in this phantasmal caper. (I wouldn't be surprised if Lansdale edited out the reptilian bits after it was too late to change the cover art.)
Moreover, the writing isn't nearly as solid, the narrative as focused, the sequences as memorably scripted, or the comedy as chuckle-inducing. Whereas the first book's laughs and vulgarity were well-placed and right on pitch, the raunchiness of the sequel is spread like chipped paint, awash in overspent shock value and bargain-bin clichés. Lansdale either ran out of steam on this one or all but phoned it in. The tension just isn't there, and the ride isn't as fun.
The idea of society-as-cinema felt fresh and thrilling in Lansdale's first outing but fails to breathe enough new life in the second take to keep me coming back for more. While it's even higher on the wonkiness scale than the original, its disordered pastiche of influences and repetitive nature ultimately terminate in forgettable schlock—like a B-movie you really didn't need to see.
Note: This review is republished from my official website.
September 29, 2019
First one was much better. Lansdale, in the introduction, talks about how difficult this one was to write and that certainly was apparent in the writing. The story seemed forced. Not the best sequel, but I do like the underlying idea so I’ll eventually read the third part as well.
April 30, 2021
Reread. A fun little novel, though not as good as the first. As usual, Lansdale’s prose finds exactly the right marks, but the structure is more loose, its satire is more broad.
July 7, 2021
The amount of delirium is too damn high
July 27, 2010
I've found Lansdale to be at his best in his short fiction, and this expansion of the story of "The Drive-In" squanders some of my goodwill toward that yarn. Lansdale's an undisciplined writer with a childlike imagination, who will throw off a tale with an unworkable premise seemingly just for a lark. He imbued the original story of this ill-advised trilogy with a realistic nastiness that makes is easy to forget its far-fetchedness; people trapped in more mundane surroundings (a lifeboat, a deserted island, an airplane marooned on the slopes of the Andes) would just as surely descend into the savagery he depicted with wicked black humor and a knowing shrug, as if to say that kids will be cannibals. Here he swings from one flight of fancy to another, and our suspension of disbelief is left in the dust.
Usually an assured story-teller, here Lansdale uses a narrative structure that highlights his lack of range; not since Heinlein has an author been stuck with such a distinctive voice, and when the story adopts a new narrator, and then, perversely, another new narrator, there is little change in that voice to demonstrate that these are new characters. Well, I liked the villain, and there were good scenes and smatterings of great dialog, but this never lived up to the eponymous boast that it's "not just one of them sequels..." A shame.
Usually an assured story-teller, here Lansdale uses a narrative structure that highlights his lack of range; not since Heinlein has an author been stuck with such a distinctive voice, and when the story adopts a new narrator, and then, perversely, another new narrator, there is little change in that voice to demonstrate that these are new characters. Well, I liked the villain, and there were good scenes and smatterings of great dialog, but this never lived up to the eponymous boast that it's "not just one of them sequels..." A shame.
May 27, 2015
Well, I decided to follow the action out of the Orbit and into the strange world beyond. The Drive-In 2 by Joe Lansdale is not a cheap rehash of The Drive-In 1 by Joe Lansdale. Instead, we get a new and different kind of story all together. It's not as classic as the events of the legendary original but it has a charm all it's own.
I'm not going to lie. It took me awhile to really get into the story. I wasn't on board at first. This is more of a crazy road trip then the story of the insanity that takes place when a chunk of society is trapped among themselves. You need to prepare for that, this is not a deconstruction of the first. Once you can deal with that aspect you should be good to go.
That is if you are already hip to Lansdale's crazy/weird/bizarre style of storytelling. That is something I loved about the first book. There is more of that in this story. There is even a new evil villain. Popcorn King meet Popalong Cassidy. Perhaps the only (slightly) regurgitated idea that bridges book one and book two.
There is no reason not to continue the story of the escape from The Orbit. This is a different kind of story and that's what makes it work. As long as you like Joe Lansdale and the odd world he's created, you will enjoy reading The Drive-In 2.
Will I complete the trilogy? Tune-in next time to find out!
I'm not going to lie. It took me awhile to really get into the story. I wasn't on board at first. This is more of a crazy road trip then the story of the insanity that takes place when a chunk of society is trapped among themselves. You need to prepare for that, this is not a deconstruction of the first. Once you can deal with that aspect you should be good to go.
That is if you are already hip to Lansdale's crazy/weird/bizarre style of storytelling. That is something I loved about the first book. There is more of that in this story. There is even a new evil villain. Popcorn King meet Popalong Cassidy. Perhaps the only (slightly) regurgitated idea that bridges book one and book two.
There is no reason not to continue the story of the escape from The Orbit. This is a different kind of story and that's what makes it work. As long as you like Joe Lansdale and the odd world he's created, you will enjoy reading The Drive-In 2.
Will I complete the trilogy? Tune-in next time to find out!
February 2, 2015
The same quirky dead-pan humor, and quirkiness as the first book, but not nearly as scary. It has more of a linear story-line, and a more varied assortment of situations, but after number one the absurdity gets a little repetitive. Though some of the scenes are very funny. I also enjoyed the varied outlandish cast of characters. Just like the first this book is a fast, fun, and very unique ride. Recommended.
Note: You have to read the first book for this one to make any sense.
Note: You have to read the first book for this one to make any sense.
April 2, 2012
I think I like this one better than the first one; in its very weird way, it made more sense and felt more like a story
May 17, 2019
Joe R. Lansdale, I tell you. Real late to the party, but his style is so acerbic that, though I've discovered him only last year, it's seeped through the years and has bled, from 2018, to 2015 and seems like he's occupied positions previously clamped by some other novels and has used a Neuralyzer and re-written over many memories of those okay-novels, making it seem like he's been there from times when, pumping Awesome-Reading-Memories.
Cause his style is so close to home, you see, just ticks off some nice boxes within that recalls Bloody Marys, Pumpkin Pies- a skewed alternate-reality "familiarity", if you please.
There are a handful of authors that I like their style for (more than plotting, in this case, I mean), hoping to spin sentences at least close to them, and Lansdale is on that list of people I wanna spin like a bit at the least.
Solid 3.5.
Very fun, bat-shit crazy, all-over-town novel that's a notch below the first part, and in hindsight, not much happens in terms of progression, but still entertaining nonetheless.
Cause his style is so close to home, you see, just ticks off some nice boxes within that recalls Bloody Marys, Pumpkin Pies- a skewed alternate-reality "familiarity", if you please.
There are a handful of authors that I like their style for (more than plotting, in this case, I mean), hoping to spin sentences at least close to them, and Lansdale is on that list of people I wanna spin like a bit at the least.
Solid 3.5.
Very fun, bat-shit crazy, all-over-town novel that's a notch below the first part, and in hindsight, not much happens in terms of progression, but still entertaining nonetheless.
October 17, 2023
The Drive-in 2 (Not Just One of Them Sequels), Joe R. Lansdale [Bantam Spectre, 1989].
In the sequel to The Drive-in, the protagonist and friends (Bob and Crier) explore the world outside the Orbit which has reverted to a prehistoric environ. After meeting a young woman named Grace, who is skilled in martial arts, they journey back to the Orbit to confront Popalong Cassidy [sic], a psychopathic killer with a television set for a head.
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Joe R. Lansdale is “…the last surviving Splatterpunk, sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead.” (Austin Chronicle) Most recently, Lansdale is the author of a novel The Donut Legion and a story collection, Things Get Ugly.
In the sequel to The Drive-in, the protagonist and friends (Bob and Crier) explore the world outside the Orbit which has reverted to a prehistoric environ. After meeting a young woman named Grace, who is skilled in martial arts, they journey back to the Orbit to confront Popalong Cassidy [sic], a psychopathic killer with a television set for a head.
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Joe R. Lansdale is “…the last surviving Splatterpunk, sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead.” (Austin Chronicle) Most recently, Lansdale is the author of a novel The Donut Legion and a story collection, Things Get Ugly.
June 24, 2017
At the very best, this appears to be drug induced ramblings or fever dreams. This was a painful read to say the least. A sequel to a novel that probably shouldn't have been published to begin with, but that caught the fancy of a few people, including myself. Reading this made me feel like I was coming to my senses about the first Drive In book with each page I read while hoping for it to somehow improve, even just a little. I honestly don't want to write much more of a review than that as I think anything additional would be far beyond what this novel deserves.
September 30, 2017
I read part one years ago, so I can't be 100% sure, but I think book one is better. This book sort of didn't have the bang I was hoping for. It starts out fine enough. Some survivors from the drive-in set out down the highway. They soon meet up with Grace. We are treated to a long flash back from her. Then a flash back within a flash back about a man with a TV screen for a face. Back to present time. There's not much more in this. The ending was sort of poor. It gets bonus points for seeing how crazy and out of control this gets. Just wish there was more story with the insanity.
September 6, 2020
... more of the same, but not as good as the first or the final books in the trilogy. All of the books in this series feel like a sequence of the narrator saying "and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened," but this feels like that even more than the others. At one point we get multiple flashbacks deep (the narrator is telling us the story of meeting a woman who starts telling the story of meeting a villain called Popalong Cassidy who starts telling the story of how he got his powers), which is kinda fun.
June 29, 2025
"Weird with a side of Weird" - Joe R. Lansdale
I so agree! This is the second book in the Drive In series, and I was so glad to be back in this world. In this book, the group of men escape the boundaries of the drive-in and are on the road to check how the world was affected by the space event! No Spoilers! I definitely recommend this book as well as the first in the series. I hope to get to the last book soon!
I so agree! This is the second book in the Drive In series, and I was so glad to be back in this world. In this book, the group of men escape the boundaries of the drive-in and are on the road to check how the world was affected by the space event! No Spoilers! I definitely recommend this book as well as the first in the series. I hope to get to the last book soon!
November 19, 2025
The heroes of the first Drive-In novel, recently saved from their crucifixions, are transported to a cut-and-paste version of Earth where dinosaurs stomp through the jungle and cars never run out of gas. The big bad end boss is a magically powerful serial killer with a television set for a head. References to gross bodily functions, depraved sex acts and gruesome deaths abound. Less violent than its predecessor but equally inane.
March 12, 2022
“I guess we could’ve at least put his dick in his pocket.”
True, dat.
I am a big Lansdale fan. Can't believe it took me so long to get to this one. Been on my shelves for years. Staring at me. Judging. Mocking. Laughing.
I may have liked this one even a smidge more than the first one. Crazy Drive-In antics. Lansdale style, just how I like it.
True, dat.
I am a big Lansdale fan. Can't believe it took me so long to get to this one. Been on my shelves for years. Staring at me. Judging. Mocking. Laughing.
I may have liked this one even a smidge more than the first one. Crazy Drive-In antics. Lansdale style, just how I like it.
June 11, 2023
Mi trovo sempre in difficoltà a dare un giudizio ad un libro così eccessivamente surreale a tratti fin troppo splatter e fuori di testa.
Si legge quasi d'un fiato, fa ridere, alcune parti fanno invece rabbrividire. Sai già che non ci sono limiti al surreale di questo romanzo, quindi potenzialmente può succedere qualunque cosa, non ci sono regole di alcun tipo.
Si legge quasi d'un fiato, fa ridere, alcune parti fanno invece rabbrividire. Sai già che non ci sono limiti al surreale di questo romanzo, quindi potenzialmente può succedere qualunque cosa, non ci sono regole di alcun tipo.
September 30, 2024
Good sequel with many striking elements but is pulled down by its rambling pace, even if it surpasses the original in certain ways. Far, far better than it has any right being and expands its world in an interesting and disturbing manner. Uncle Joe is one of the few living authors who can pull this sort of thing off.
March 15, 2025
I enjoyed the first book in this trilogy, The Drive-In, even though it wasn’t what I was expecting. It was my first experience of bizarro fiction. I knew what I was getting into with the sequel so I enjoyed it that much more hence the extra star. Was definitely a fun read, that although was light on plot, made up for with some very bizarre imagery.
October 21, 2024
Landsdale è un autore di culto per un motivo.
Se vi aspettate un racconto serio cambiate romanzo, qui la follia impregna ogni pagina e il divertimento arriva per chi vuole accettarlo.
E in tutto questo con una scrittura degna di nota che non è così banale da trovare in giro
Se vi aspettate un racconto serio cambiate romanzo, qui la follia impregna ogni pagina e il divertimento arriva per chi vuole accettarlo.
E in tutto questo con una scrittura degna di nota che non è così banale da trovare in giro
August 1, 2018
Had a lot of fun with this one!
March 11, 2019
The first one was better but I enjoyed the journey.
August 16, 2019
Disturbing yet oddly charming
April 28, 2021
I enjoyed the first Drive In novel more but this one was still a fun ride.
May 28, 2021
Messy and scattershot. I love Lansdale, but this felt like he found a notebook of ideas from when he was six years old, and he put all the ideas into one book.
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