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Indlæser... Flaming Zeppelinsaf Joe R. Lansdale
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I’d prefer to give the first story zeppelins west a 3 and the second flaming London a five, but, as they are together here they get a combined four. Each is a send-up/ tribute to characters, real and fictional and there is generous borrowing of plot. I prefer the London story as it is a bit more fun and innocent, perhaps due to the more central place of Ned the seal. I am warning you, very seriously, that if you have a special place in your heart for the Wizard of Oz, you may want to skip zeppelins. Joe lansdale, I have a bone to pick with you on that score ( ) Joe R Lansdale goes off the reservation with this affectionate but irreverent homage to dime-store westerns and early science fiction. Buffalo Bill's Western Show in zeppelins! Kidnapping Frankenstein's monster from a Japanese shogun! Get stranded on the island of Dr Moreau - or 'Momo.' Dracula comes for a visit! Things explode! Later, Martians invade and Mark Twain, Jules Verne and a talking seal, amongst others, fight them off while a rips in the fabric of reality threaten to tear the world apart! Don't even try. I mean, it all makes sense, because it's Joe R Lansdale but it's as mad as a box of cabbages. Hilarious, violent, tragic and utterly gonzo vulgar and strange. I'd be tempted to call it old school, but there's no school that'd have it. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk adventures. For the first time, two epic chronicles, Zeppelins West and Flaming London, inscribed by a courageous young seal on his trusty notepad, are collected together in one volume. Leap from a flaming zeppelin with the stars of the Wild West Show in a desperate escape from an imperial Japanese enclave. Wash up upon the island of Doctor Moreau, in mortal danger from his unnatural experiments (and ignorant that Dracula approaches by sea). Unite with Jules Verne, Passpartout, and Mark Twain on a desperate voyage to the burning streets of London, which are infested with killer squid from outer space courtesy of H. G. Wells's time machine. It's a raucous steam-powered locomotive of shoot-'em-up Westerns, dime novels, comic books, and pulp fiction, as only Lansdale, the high-priest of Texan weirdness, could tell. No library descriptions found. |
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