Cold in July (2014) - September 30, 2014

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Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've read Joe R. Lansdale's Cold in July several times, along with several other books from this author. Lansdale is a Texas writer who comes across like a gritty blend of William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, Mickey Spillane, Sam Peckinpah, and Quentin Tarantino. His stories are generally crude, rude, and gruesome, but there's also an undercurrent of Southern Gothic and an idyllic rural backwoods aesthetic.

I read Lansdale's Cold in July this week and enjoyed it quite a bit. The writing reminded me a bit of two other books that I've read recently: Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (of True Detective fame) and Knockemstiff, a collection of short stories by Donald Ray Pollock. If anyone enjoyed one of these books, I would recommend the other two.

Now that I've read it, I plan to watch Cold in July on-demand this weekend.