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Title: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0-380-72121-X Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A little too much of a good thing
Comment: There are two strong aspects of James Lee Burke's series about Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux that make them unique and memorable: the lush description that absolutely puts the reader in the locale and the recurrance of 'mystic' elements - images in dreams etc - that give the plots a mythic, larger than life, stature. In this book, I think, both elements are overplayed just a bit too much. One longs for more story and less atmosphere, and the materialization of Confederate 'ghosts' that impinge on the outcome of the plot strains credulity severly.
I enjoy this series, even when it is over the top as is sometimes the case. There is nothing else quite like it in contemporary crime fiction. But every now and then I wish that Burke would reign himself in. He seems to get seduced by his own words and carried away to a place that the reader cannot always follow. Of course, when he is on the mark, no one can touch him for description and atmosphere. In the case of this book, I just wanted more story - and more flesh and blood.
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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