{"id":1024,"date":"2010-03-15T19:19:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:19:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:19:51","slug":"books-read-joe-r-lansdales-vanilla-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Books Read: Joe R. Lansdale&#8217;s Vanilla Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe R. Lansdale<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307270971?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307270971\"><b>Vanilla Ride<\/b><\/a><br \/>\nRandom House, 2009, $24.95<\/p>\n<p>It had been nearly a decade since the last Hap &#038; Leonard novel, so it was good to catch up with them again. The last one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307455521?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307455521\"><b>Captains Outrageous<\/b><\/a>, occasionally suffered from having too many people on stage at the same time, which is why it was a good thing that Leonard\u2019s boyfriend remained off-stage for this one. Hap and Leonard retrieve their old friend Marvin Hanson\u2019s daughter from the clutches of a drug-dealer, only to have the Dixie Mafia come down on their heads. A pretty hefty body count ensues. I would rank this in about the middle of the Hap &#038; Leonard novels, not as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307455394?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307455394\"><b>Mucho Mojo<\/b><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307455491?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307455491\"><b>The Two-Bear Mambo<\/b><\/a>, but as good or better than the rest. (And just in case you didn\u2019t know, I have a ton of Lansdale (most of it signed) over on the <a href=\u201dlame.html\u201d>Lame Excuse Books<\/a> page.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe R. Lansdale Vanilla Ride Random House, 2009, $24.95 It had been nearly a decade since the last Hap &#038; Leonard novel, so it was good to catch up with them again. The last one, Captains Outrageous, occasionally suffered from having too many people on stage at the same time, which is why it was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1024\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books Read: Joe R. Lansdale&#8217;s Vanilla Ride<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1973,296,46,297],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-hap-leonard","tag-joe-r-lansdale","tag-vanilla-ride","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}