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Title: In the Electric Mist With the Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0-7435-3799-8 Publisher: Encore Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Robicheaux's melancholic moods, in full swing.
Comment: James Lee Burke's creation, Dave Robicheaux, is a perfect Everyman. He struggles with demons - his own, and those of others. He is an excellently flawed man, a man of great strengths, towering weaknesses, and deep melancholy: his humanity bleeds from evgery page.
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead gives us a better, and deeper, insight into Burke's Everyman. The story purports to be a mystery / thriller, and is designated as such by Amazon. It is, of course, much more, and much less, than that. The mystery is satisfying, of course. Mr. Burke doesn't know how to write a bad mystery. But it's a side-bar to what the book really is: a series of character studies. There's Robicheaux, of course. The story is told in the first person, so the reader is swept into his psyche from the first page. There's Bootsie and Alafair, the people closest to Robicheaux - and the people he often feels are the furthest from him. There's Clete Purcell, his psychotic, sweaty, shambling drunken hulk of a partner. There are the figures from his past, who return to haunt him. And there is, of course, the ghost of the Confederate General with whome Robicheaux confers, and exposes not only himself, but the entire landscape of characters.
Speaking of which - the Louisiana landscape is as much a character as any of the others. The dust, the heat, the colours, the odours, the taste of the land play as large a part as any human in the book.
Mr Burke has been writing the best prose in popular American fiction for the past ten years, if not longer. He has always been a superb writer, making every word perform well above its potential. And in this book, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead, he has written one of his finest works.
Rating: 4
Summary: he write with all five senses.......
Comment: If you are unfamiliar with this author, this book would be an interesting introduction to the Dave Robicheaux novels by Burke. Burke writes with all five senses in mind. The descriptions of the Southern Louisiana will make you thirst for a sweet tea. The plot revolves around a possible serial murderer of young girls. It also involves the mafia infiltrating his locale through a Hollywood movie making event. The two may be connected. When Dave Robicheaux begins to see Confederate soldiers, and has conversations with them, you wonder, was it Dave Robicheaux' car accident, was it alcohol, or has Mr. Burke opted for a science fantasy turn of events. (No, it is not the latter!) This was an extremely well done novel, not his best of the Dave Robicheaux novels, but still very good. If you haven't read other of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels, anytime is a good time to start. If you enjoy Southern Detective/Police mysteries, these will not dissapoint you.
Rating: 5
Summary: hot, steamy and dark
Comment: James Lee Burke always smacks right up against the crossover with "literature". His words carry you along until you are there feeling the oppressive Southern humidity oozing around you. I always feel like I am stationed back in Charleston South Carolina on a hot day. The man can write.
James Lee Burke is one of the very few authors who can convey accurately exactly what it is like to be a drunk or a recovering drunk. Dave could fit in any meeting anywhere. Burke weaves it into the plots smoothly. Dave is Dave and he shares any recovering drunks worry of "What did I do to myself when I was drinking? And when will it show up?"
In Electric Mists time gets suspended. Dave is working on cases tied to the past when he starts to think his drinking must have done some damage to his brain. He is understress and part of that is the threat to his family. He suspects he has "lost" it and the damage done by Alcohol is showing up under his stress. He feels he might be hallucinating.
He is meeting with Confederate troops from the past. They seem real but they can't be for they have been dead for years. He chalks it up to his prior drinking bringing out these characters to discuss his case with him. After all they can't be real. Ghosts aren't real. If they are he is attune to something defying the reality in which he exists but if they aren't he has damage that will alter that reality anyway. A cop can't hallucinate and be a cop.
As he searches for the answers the Confederates messages get more urgent to him. Past pulls on past and the far past until the final climax. Brain Damaged hallucinations? Dave is smart enough when he knows to keep the answer to himself for after all the past is past.
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Title: A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0380720477 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Morning for Flamingos by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0380713608 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0380712040 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0786889004 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0786889187 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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