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Any James Lee Burke fans?
Posted on 1/22/23 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 1/22/23 at 1:56 pm
And the Dave Robicheaux series?
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Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:27 pm to bamarep
They’re great. His descriptions are vivid and compelling. Makes me want to drink, tho.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:10 pm to CCT
Yes, his prose in the early novels was incredible.
Posted on 1/23/23 at 12:49 pm to bamarep
I read one every summer.
I'm about half way through.
I'm about half way through.
Posted on 1/23/23 at 12:56 pm to sertorius
I don't read them much but I have the whole unabridged series on Audible.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 4:08 pm to bamarep
Yes
Posted on 1/25/23 at 2:35 pm to bamarep
Great. Now I want a catfish poboy, and Budweiser, 2 shots bourbon and to inflict egregious bodily harm on some fool.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 3:32 pm to LSUballs
Clete is the best. I've racked my brain on someone who could pull off that character in a movie and John Goodman is the only person that came to mind.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 4:21 pm to bamarep
I’ve always envisioned Clete as looking like Rocky’s brother in law from the movies.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 2:01 pm to CCT
Maybe be but he was supposedly a large man.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 3:02 pm to bamarep
Big fan. Got to meet him a few times at book signings in Baton Rouge. Really nice guy
Posted on 1/30/23 at 4:51 pm to bamarep
Yessir, very much so.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 6:37 pm to bamarep
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Yes, his prose in the early novels was incredible.
I liked him a lot early in his career. Somewhere around 20 years ago or so I gave up on him. The writing got lazy and and repetitive and he increasingly injected his politics. I don't want to buy a book and then be preached to, it pretty well destroys suspension of disbelief when you can see the author's fingerprints on every page.
Posted on 2/1/23 at 9:18 am to bamarep
I used to read all his books and really liked them. Then he wrote some book set in Texas or something which I didn’t enjoy and I’ve been off him ever since. It was just different.
I did watch “ In the Electric Mist” last night with Tommy Lee Jones and liked it. I may be back on.
I did watch “ In the Electric Mist” last night with Tommy Lee Jones and liked it. I may be back on.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 8:41 pm to 9rocket
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In the Electric Mist” last night with Tommy Lee Jones and liked it. I
I got a pre release cut of this movie and was blown away by the cast. But I do agree John Goodman (who played Julie “Baby Feet” Balboni) should’ve been saved for Clete.
Anyway, near-perfect cast, but that cut felt like a B movie. I don’t think they made any major improvements to it. It was as though they just said F it.
I’ve met JLB a few times in Missoula and was friends with his daughter Pamala who died a few years ago. Super nice family.
I read his more recent stuff as poetry more than anything. I couldn’t tell you a thing that happened in the last two. Haha.
On the politics front: he had a great interview over a decade ago where he decried political correctness. And just before the Very Fine People Hoax made it big, he had written about Clete walking around during the Charlottesville thing definitely not as a protester. Clete was indeed a very fine person. I’ve wanted to ask JLB if he’d made that connection.
This post was edited on 2/3/23 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 2/7/23 at 7:13 am to Tigris
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I liked him a lot early in his career. Somewhere around 20 years ago or so I gave up on him. The writing got lazy and and repetitive and he increasingly injected his politics. I don't want to buy a book and then be preached to, it pretty well destroys suspension of disbelief when you can see the author's fingerprints on every page.
This also applies to Greg Iles from Natchez.
Posted on 2/8/23 at 6:27 am to Spook
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This also applies to Greg Iles from Natchez.
Greg Iles's political shite is 1000X more hackish and painful than JLB's. I've never put down a JLB book. I've gotten lost in the poetic prose and forgotten the storyline, but kept reading. Iles's later stuff is unreadable.
Posted on 2/8/23 at 6:34 pm to McLemore
I haven’t read any of Greg Ike’s later stuff but his first two or three books were great, then I kind of lost interest after the next couple. He used to be one of the authors I would look for when I went to the bookstore, but not anymore.
Posted on 2/8/23 at 7:31 pm to McLemore
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Greg Iles's political shite is 1000X more hackish and painful than JLB's
I guess the only one of his that I've read was a later book then. It was bad, and I have no intention of going back to that well.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 9:34 pm to bamarep
Turned my Dad onto him years ago. He said, "This guy talks about places that aren't even there anymore".
I used to tell people that when you read his books, you could smell the gumbo in the air.
I used to tell people that when you read his books, you could smell the gumbo in the air.
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