NP - Treme

[Bekah]

I loove James Lee Burke -  I started the Dave Robicheaux series back in '93 or '94 I think  ("In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead"  was my first)  and I've read almost every one - the last 10 or so in order.  But Dave is getting older now and I can see this series winding up at the next book (#20) -  I thought it was wound up at #18 but Dave recovered and started out in physical rehab in Creole Belle (#19) .  

 For a great listen get one as read by Will Patton who has a slow,  gritty, Southern drawl -  I think I like the first books in the series best - Burke is most "Faulknerian"  what with the violence in a lushly beautiful setting (Bayou area of Louisiana) which is haunted by ghosts of the past  - ("… it's not even past").   But Burke is not anything like a copycat Faulkner - he's a crime novelist first and foremost - he's just been the literary cream of them all for about 10 + years.    

There have been some fair scholarly works done on Burke and his conscience. 
A Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke [Paperback]


Bek


On Sep 22, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Burke is great!
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> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM, David Casseres <casseres at mac.com> wrote:
> Anyone read The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke?  It's set in New Orleans immediately after Katrina.  Pynchon fans might enjoy Burke; at least this one did.
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> On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:42 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > absolutely understandable. Katrina was national shame.
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> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:07 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Maybe they did lay that on too heavy, but remember the real history:
> >> New Orleans really was besieged physically and mentally.  The suicide
> >> rate in the year after Katrina shot through the roof.  Some said New
> >> Orleans got what they deserved by God's wrath.  Others said it should
> >> be bulldozed, not resurrected.  Reaction to all that was the heart of
> >> the Goodman character.  BTW, Goodman is now at least a part-time
> >> local.  He really does love New Orleans.
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> >> David Morris
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> >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:58 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> In Treme's case, i have no beef with that except for the tendency at least in the first season to constantly harp on the fact of how superior or unique New Orleans is. Hey, I love the place, too. I just didnt need reminding every 10 minutes ;)
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