The Drive-In [Hardcover]

Joe Lansdale (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 170 pages
• Publisher: Kinnell (January 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1870532155
• ISBN-13: 978-1870532150
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,850,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty 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 eighteen 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 Hotep 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." 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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just keeps getting better, March 29, 2000

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Lisa A. Decesare "The Librarian" (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drive-in II (Mass Market Paperback)

If you read The Drive-In and thought Lansdale couldn't get any stranger, be prepared to change your mind.

The inhabitants of the drive-in are finally freed (what's left of them anyway) and the world they discover beyond the walls has changed quite a bit! This novel has it all. There are dinosaurs, monsters, aliens, true love, murder, horror movies, and lots and lots of popcorn.

Once again Lansdale writes an amazingly inventive story with lush scenery, well-thought out characters, an extremely fast-paced story, and of course, the popcorn king.