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A review by nigellicus
The Sky Done Ripped by Joe R. Lansdale, Timothy Truman
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I read a book! I read a book I read a book it's 2020 and I finally read anouther book! If 2020 was a pulp adeventure it'd be all about me fighting through the wird and deadly perils of stress, depression, disoientation, dioomscrolling on twitter and screaming silently into the void as I try accomplish my epic quest of Just. Reading. One. More. Flipping. Book. Of course it would be a rollicking, hilarious, horrific, violent, spectacular Ned The Seal adventure from Joe R Lansdale that did it.
Bongo Bill and his sister Suzie Q live on an alternate world where the president of the United States is an awful, narcissitic individual who lies a lot. When some aliens show up and offers advanced medicine and technologies, the president respnds by shooting at them with missiles and they shoot back with a world-devastating plague. Bill and Suzie Q survive, rescued by Ned The Seal and HG Wells, paused in thir perambulations to fix the awful rips in time that nearly destroyed reality, but their next jump strands them in the dangerous steaming jungles of a hollow world. Someone else came through as well, and they start to wreak devastation and destruction and terror.
I mean, I could go on, but there's a novel worth of plot in every pageand one thing follows after another in the hectic logic of pell-mell adventure and danger and epic showdowns between good and evil with a small host of characters derived from pulp and dime fiction. It all explodes then gets wrapped up with the usual no-nonsense efficency of a Lansdale book. His sardonic, gimlet-eyed love for the genre, warts and all, shines through every page
Bongo Bill and his sister Suzie Q live on an alternate world where the president of the United States is an awful, narcissitic individual who lies a lot. When some aliens show up and offers advanced medicine and technologies, the president respnds by shooting at them with missiles and they shoot back with a world-devastating plague. Bill and Suzie Q survive, rescued by Ned The Seal and HG Wells, paused in thir perambulations to fix the awful rips in time that nearly destroyed reality, but their next jump strands them in the dangerous steaming jungles of a hollow world. Someone else came through as well, and they start to wreak devastation and destruction and terror.
I mean, I could go on, but there's a novel worth of plot in every pageand one thing follows after another in the hectic logic of pell-mell adventure and danger and epic showdowns between good and evil with a small host of characters derived from pulp and dime fiction. It all explodes then gets wrapped up with the usual no-nonsense efficency of a Lansdale book. His sardonic, gimlet-eyed love for the genre, warts and all, shines through every page