Mucho Mojo [Paperback]

Joe R. Lansdale (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: The Mysterious Press (January 1, 1994)
• ASIN: B000OV4KCE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lansdale is the king, October 29, 2003

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Ryan Thomas "Magazine Editor" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mucho Mojo (Mass Market Paperback)

Since discovering Lansdale earlier this year, I've read everythign i can get my hands on. i even visit his website once a week because he posts a new short story every Thrursday. The guy is simply amazing. By and far the best writer I've read in a long time, simply hilarious.

Hap and Leonard are two of the coolest characters I've ever had the pleasure to read about. One white trash, the other a black gay man. together they're two of the toughest honchos to ever clean up a neighborhood. I can't wait for the movie (though I'm sure it'll be crap in comparison).

Only reason I'm giving this four stars instead of five is that the mystery is a bit easy to solve. But it dosesn't realy matter because it's such a fun read. And now that Bubba Ho tep has been made into film (an amazingly funny film at that) you can expect to see a lot of lansdale's work translated to the screen.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I was offended, disgusted and throughly entertained!, August 13, 2003

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Mark Thomas Paul (Chicopee, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mucho Mojo (Mass Market Paperback)

Those who are politically correct and who don't want to laugh at stigmas, stereotypes and others misfortunes will miss a real treat. The plot and the story are well written as well as the sarcasm and the wisecracks which will leave you giggling to yourself and too embarassed to tell your partner what you are snickering about. This is an offbeat author who has created a cult following. Mucho Mojo takes the worse social problems, child exploitation, drug use and violence and turns it into a mystery unraveled by two guys you would like to meet in a novel but would not want living one your street. Throw in one of the dearest grandma figures as well as a corrupt minister and you have a bizarre story which will hook you to this series. Yes I was so disgusted by this book that the third time I read it I said that enough is enough! (Time to move on to the next book in the series!)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Macho does not provide mucho." Zsa Zsa Gabor, August 24, 2010

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michael a. draper (Guilford, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)

"Mucho Mojo" would be a good book to take on vacation. The story moves along nicely and has an interesting plot.

Leonard Pine is surprised to learn that he has inherited his Uncle Chester's home and $100.000. Leonard's feeling was that his uncle didn't approve of him because Leonard is gay.

His friend, Hap Collins is with him when he arrives at his uncle's home and finds drug dealers using his uncle's porch to conduct their drug business.

Leonard asks Collins to move in with him and help him fix the house up. They are busy doing this when they find the body of a young child in the basement. There are also photos of little children in sex positions and some coupons. At first they think that Leonard's uncle may have been the killer and a child pornographer but on reviewing the evidence Leonard remembers that his uncle was a cop wanna be and that he was probably looking for the killer and perhaps leaving a message before the senility that was effecting him, took hold of his brain.

The author is dealing with some sensitive subjects in this novel. Pine is a black man who is gay. Collins is a white man who is straight. Their relationship and acceptance of each other is well described. We also read of the problem of drugs in the inner city and what crack does to a neighborhood and the children who live there. Finally, we read of child pornography and pedophilia.

The story is entertaining and the characters are likable. Lansdale has a talent with his character's dialogue that makes the reader feel as if they are being told the story in the character's own voice.