Books by James Lee Burke
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review 1: One of my late husband's favorite authors was James Lee Burke but I've put off reading this one for some reason. Perhaps because Dave Robicheaux wasn't the main character or as with many things, I just have avoided since May of 2010. At any rate, this was a great read, set in T...
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review 1: Burke had been recommended to me by a lover of New Orleans. I was disappointed to find that this book is set in Montana instead. It was bloody and violent. I found it hard to tell one character from the other - perhaps because I "read" it on CD and it was narrated by one reader w...
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review 1: In James Lee Burkes' The Glass Rainbow, buddy characters Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcells attempt to make New Iberia safe, heal themselves, and protect Dave's daughter and wife. The pull of the book is the loyalty between Dave and Clete, the raw pain that Burke dares to analyz...
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review 1: James Lee Burke’s heroes--and plenty of his ancillary characters, too--are among the most prickly people on the planet. They offend easily, harshly judge other people’s words & behavior, and they hew to an inscrutable code of conduct that sometimes leads to the darkest kinds of v...
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review 1: Man, these books are tough to read - tough characters and situations. This one has a fairly happy ending, a character with a crazy mental issue somehow overcomes it through the love of a woman (ha! but it's not that bad really), and the bad guys get their due (but it leaves open...
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review 1: James Lee Burke is one of my top 5 writers because he has a unique style, a musical and poetic way with words, maybe because of his English teacher background. I have read probably all his Dave Robicheaux series. Creole Belle is as good as any of his, features more about his par...
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review 1: When the great American boxer Jack Dempsey was 45 and broke, he fought a wrestler named Cowboy Luttrell. You can watch this sordid spectacle on Youtube. Old men fighting is unedifying, even when the old man is Dempsey. In this novel men I have come to love through James Lee Burke...
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review 1: wenn der schluss nicht so meldramstisch gewesen wäre, ich hätte die höchstnoge vergeben. alles da, was so ein südstaatenkrimi braucht, die leichen, die mexikaner, die asiatinnen, die bordelle, die drogen, die dürre, die kindheitsgeschicjten und die amerikanischen kriegserfahrunge...
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review 1: I enjoyed Rain Gods but not as much as James Lee Burke's Robicheaux books. It is really well written so i got to wondering why i didn't enjoy it so much. I think it is because there is no single character you could say the book has as a central character, and after reading the R...