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    Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories
    Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories
    Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories
    Audiobook8 hours

    Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories

    Written by Joe R. Lansdale

    Narrated by Matt Godfrey

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    About this audiobook

    From the Dusty Great Depression to the far future, to the wild west, to the era of big fin automobiles, soda shops and double features, as well as dark journey on an icy ocean full of ravenous sharks and a fantastic shipwreck that leads its survivors into a nightmarish Lovecraftian world of monsters and mystery, Joe R. Lansdale returns with a pack of stories for your consumption and enjoyment.

    There's even killer machines, a big ole grizzly bear, and entertaining story notes.

    Joe R. Lansdale has been writing novels and stories, as well as screenplays and comics, for over forty-five years, and this is his latest concoction, encompassing stories informed by a variety of genres, but not quite comfortably fitting into any of them.

    The reason is simple.

    Joe R. Lansdale is his own genre.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 12, 2019
    ISBN9781977343581
    Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories
    Author

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and six Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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    • 5/5
      Lansdale delivers with some more awesome stories, I first stumbled upon this author when I listened to the Deadmans hand audiobook. My personal favorite was Wrestling With Jesus with the Mad Mountains being a close number 2. That's not to say the other stories were weak by any means, although the first story was the least interesting to me
    • 5/5
      DRIVING TO GERONIMO'S GRAVE: AND OTHER STORIES is a shining example of how skilled Joe Lansdale really is. Not one of these tales is like the others-they're all different, all unique and all showcasing why Mr. Lansdale has been called the Champion Mojo Storyteller.

      The title story is the first here and it's set during the Great Depression. A young man and his sister are tasked with picking up the corpse of their dead uncle and bringing it back home so they can bury him with the proper respect. Being that this is a Lansdale story, things don't go quite as planned. I loved this tale, I loved the characters and I especially loved smart-mouthed Terri. 5*

      IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS: Mr. Lansdale's homage to Lovecraft was better than most of the actual Lovecraft I've read. I don't even know what else to say because this story was so imaginative-I think each reader needs to have it unfold for them. It had a pulpy feel to it on top of the Lovecraftian base-a unique combination that worked well for me. 5*

      WRESTLING JESUS: A bullied boy and a bullied man, (albeit a very different kind of bullying), both come together in this tale of wrestling, love gone wrong, and a relationship much like that of father and son. 4*

      ROBO RAPID: This is a pulp adventure-type story set in the future with a delightful young woman, Sheann, as the protagonist. Years after an invasion here on earth, robots have killed her parents and stolen her siblings. She makes it her mission in life to get them back. Along the way, she makes a friend, sees a musical, and learns that she's braver than even she realized. 5*

      THE PROJECTIONIST: I first read this story in Lawrence Block's collection IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW. At first this seems to be a tale about a young man lusting after a beautiful young woman. Then it turns into something else entirely. 5*

      As an aside about THE PROJECTIONIST: it's fascinating to me that an author can gaze at a painting and come up with an entire backstory for it. In this case the painting was The Usherette by Edward Hopper and here it is:


      The last tale in this book EVERYTHING SPARKLES IN HELL brings us to visit Nat Love. A black cowboy featured in the novel PARADISE SKY and a few other novellas, Nat returns as a bounty hunter tracking down two no-good men. (Based on the real man, yes there were black cowboys, despite their absence from most American history books.) Along the way he meets up with Chocktaw, (a tracker of some renown), and the biggest she-bear either of them has ever seen. I loved visiting with Nat again and he will always hold a special place in my heart.

      What I especially loved about this collection are the tidbits from the author himself revealing how the stories came about. In the digital review copy I received, these came after the stories rather than before, and I liked that. (It seems that, in previewing the finished copy online, these are now forewords to the stories, rather than afterwords.) I enjoyed reading them after reading the tales themselves and seeing how the ideas germinated in the head of the author, sometimes sprouting out fully formed, according to him. Once again, I find myself fascinated by Mr. Lansdale's writing process and abilities.

      I was pretty sure I was going to love this collection of stories even before I started reading it, and I was right. It's the skilled writing of Mr. Lansdale that gets to me every time. No matter what he writes about, it can be counted on to capture and hold your attention. It can be counted on to contain some humor and real life observations. It can be counted on to satisfy. Because his characters are so true to life- complicated and diverse, they make me feel connected not only to them, but to the world as well. It's a gift and Joe has it. That is all I can say.

      My highest recommendation!

      *Thank you to Subterranean Press and to NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest feedback. This is it.*
    • 3/5
      This is a mixed collection of stories, some of the quite long, ranging from an icebound Lovecraftian adventure (In the Mad Mountains) to a Western (Everything Sparkles in Hell) where a black marshall, his tracker, and a band of criminals are trailed by a humongous grizzly bear who has become a mankiller. The title story is about a boy and his sister sent to retrieve an uncle's body for burial who run into big trouble. We learn that it's always good to have your 13-year old sister along in such cases. Wresting Jesus is about two old men with a longstanding rivalry over a woman, and one of them's mentoring of a young boy. Robo Rapid is an imaginative post-apocalytic science fiction story. None of these are Lansdale at his best. Sometimes I think he writes too easily for his own good. But they are all engaging stories with an abundance of the author's dark humor and love for blood and gore. If you've read Lansdale before, you know what you're getting into.