 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Joe Lansdale's savage season. I almost forgot the name of the book there. But before we get started, I listened to this one on Scribe. Scribe has the entire Hap and Leonard series. There's a link down there in the doobly-doo. If you want a free month, you get a free month. My kids get a free month because it's their not affiliate link because we're not really an affiliate. If you use that link, they get a free month and you get a free month. I don't care if you keep Scribe or not, but if you want to try it out, use the link and then my kids get a free month. It's a win for both of us. But anyways, on with the review. Okay, so savage season is about Hap and Leonard, two good old boys. I think it's important to mention this. One of them is a white dude and the other one is a gay black man. That fits into a lot of the stuff where me and my buddy Aaron are buddy reading this since we got done with the John Connolly series so far anyways. We're waiting on the nameless ones. But we decided to start Lansdale series, Hap and Leonard series. And there's a lot of referencing to the fact that one of them is black and gay and the other one is white, more so in Mucho Mojo, the second book. But we'll talk about that when we get there. I really liked this book. I'm only giving it four stars and the reason is I want a room to grow kind of deal. I'm already enjoying the second book much more. So this is a higher four stars right now. Well, not right now. I'm going to give it a high four stars. There is, and this is something that's completely subjective. I don't know if it'll bother any of you. And I do not think that Joe Lansdale is racist or any of that nonsense. But there's a lot of you. So the N word in these books by you know, both white people and black people, it doesn't matter. The N word is everywhere. And I personally do not like reading the word or listening to the word. And since I am listening to it, I can't even skim over it. I have to hear it over and over and over again. And most of the time it's with the hard ER. It just makes me cringe. It's not something that I enjoy. So I'm throwing that out there for people who might feel the same way. Other than that, I really enjoyed the book. It is about Happen Leonard going out and diving to find a vehicle. And there's a lot more to the plot. The ending is really good. There is, I think the villain of this one was a little bit cartoony with the way he was talking to his henchmen. What's the word I'm looking for? He keeps doing that over and over again. I thought that was funny. But I like my villains to be villains. And other than his near constant spewing of the N word, the guy seemed like a bit cartoonish. But I know people like this exist. So, I mean, I'm going to let it go. But the thing that really struck me with this one is how goddamn funny it is. I was laughing multiple times throughout. There is a rumor that John Connolly got his inspiration for Angel and Louis in the Charlie Parker books from Happen Leonard's discourse. It rings true to me. I don't know. I even asked Joe Lansdale. Joe Lansdale didn't know. John Connolly didn't actually respond to me. But Lansdale, when I said about the rumor, Joe commented and he said, but were they? Question mark? I don't know. He doesn't know. But the discourse, the back and forth, the banter certainly seems like Angel and Louis were the inspiration for Angel and Louis. I think I got that backward to begin with. So, to be clear, the rumor is that Happen Leonard, because they came first, these books are rather old, because they came first that John Connolly read them and got the inspiration for Angel and Louis and that might or might not be the case. I don't know. I like the plot of this book. There's not a whole lot of plot, though. It's a very, very simple story and I enjoyed that. The last book by Lansdale that I read was A Thin Dark Line, I believe it's called. Another fantastic book, which it's funny because I struggled to get through it two or three times and I kept quitting it. But then I fell in love with it and I fell in love with these characters. I already love Happen Leonard and I want to talk to you about Mucho Mojo and the character of Florida. But we can't yet. We got to get through this review and I'm pretty much done here. These are older books. If you were thinking about reading them, you've probably already read them, but if you were thinking about it and you haven't yet, I highly recommend it. It's a lot of fun. Absolutely hilarious. Lansdale's dialogue is absolute perfection and the audiobooks especially are a lot of fun. I love the narrator and I hope he's the narrator throughout the entire series. But have you read Savage Season or any of the Happen Leonard books? Let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you liked them, loved them, hated them, felt mad about them. Any of those things that you felt, describe why you felt that way so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye!